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In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin speaks with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (centre) and China’s President Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin on September 1, 2025. — AFP pic

China’s Xi, Russia’s Putin put on united front against West at regional bloc gathering

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (right) is seen on board of a vessel of a civilian flotilla, carrying pro-Palestinian activists, and humanitarian aid and aiming to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, remains moored at Barcelona port on September 1, 2025, after being forced to return due to bad weather. — AFP pic

Gaza flotilla with Greta Thunberg resumes voyage after weather setback in Barcelona

A picture shows a view of the damage at the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum on April 11, 2025, after the army recaptured the country's capital from RSF paramilitaries the previous month. — AFP pic

How millennia of history vanished in Sudan’s war

Bhumjaithai Party leader Anutin Charnvirakul is surrounded by media representatives at the party's headquarters in Bangkok on September 1, 2025. — AFP pic

Thai opposition’s kingmaking summit fails to back new PM

Mourners attend the funeral procession of Houthi government officials killed in an Israeli strike, in Sanaa, Yemen September 1, 2025. — Reuters pic

Yemen's Huthis hold funeral for PM killed in Israeli strike

A man mourns during the funeral of Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli strikes, according to medics, at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City September 1, 2025. — Reuters pic

Israel pushes deeper into Gaza City as airstrikes kill at least 19 amid warnings of genocide

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee are seen at an event in Seongnam October 1, 2024. — AFP pic

S. Korea’s Unification Church head says ‘never directed any bribes’, denies involvement in ex-First Lady Kim Keon-hee’s case

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend a photo ceremony at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin September 1, 2025. Sputnik/Vladimir Smirnov/Pool via Reuters

Modi tells ‘dear friend’ Putin India and Russia stand together ‘even in difficult times’

University students protest as they demand police reform in front of the main entrance gate of the parliament complex in Jakarta on September 1, 2025. — AFP pic

‘People are angry’: Thousands rally across Indonesia as military rolls into Jakarta after deadly protests

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a new missile production line at a military enterprise at an undisclosed location in this undated picture released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency, September 1, 2025. — KCNA pic via Reuters

Kim Jong Un touts new missile production capabilities ahead of Beijing parade with Xi and Putin

US President Donald Trump checks his phone as he departs from Trump National golf course in Sterling, Virginia on August 31, 2025, en route to the White House. — AFP pic

Trump blasts court ruling on tariffs, says US faces ‘third world nation’ future

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin August 31, 2025. — Reuters pic

After talks with Xi and Modi, Putin says Nato enlargement has to be addressed for Ukraine peace

People’s Party leader Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut speaks during a press conference at Parliament house ahead of a pivotal parliamentary vote on a new prime minister in Bangkok August 15, 2024. — Reuters pic

After Paetongtarn’s removal, rival camps woo kingmaker People’s Party in Thai PM battle

An injured Afghan boy (bottom) receives treatment at a hospital after an earthquake in Afghanistan’s Jalalabad September 1, 2025. — AFP pic

Afghanistan earthquake of magnitude 6 kills at least 800 with more than 2,500 injured

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2025 in Tianjin September 1, 2025. — Reuters pic

China’s Xi calls on SCO to tap ‘mega-scale market’, pledges billions in aid and loans

Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol has been unconscious in hospital since falling ill during a military dog training session in December 2022. — Reuters file pic

Hospitalised Thai princess recovering after blood infection, says palace