The Indonesian agency overseeing President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free meals programme will “refocus” its budget by cutting back on new kitchens and targeting recipients in more remote areas, its new chief said on Thursday. Nanik Sudaryati Deyang, the new chief of the
Five Azerbaijani citizens were killed and three others injured in attacks on two cargo vessels in the Sea of Azov, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday. Responding to a question about the vessels hit in Taganrog Bay, the ministry said the crews included 25 Azerbaijani citizens in tot
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy published an open letter to President Vladimir Putin on Thursday in which he proposed the two leaders meet to agree an end to more than four years of war, warning that Kyiv stood ready to fight on otherwise. In his letter, which the president's office
The pro-Iran Hezbollah movement rejected a new ceasefire in Lebanon on Thursday and Israel said it would not withdraw troops from the country, undermining US President Donald Trump’s efforts to halt fighting there to forge peace with Tehran. Iran has made a ceasefire in Lebanon a condition f
A dozen people have died in a fire at a home for older people in Sri Lanka, police said on Thursday, while another eight have been hospitalised. The fire, which broke out at a home in Anguruwatota (55 km or 34 miles from the commercial capital Colombo), has been put out and the direc
