Hightlights
Thousands protest plan to build world’s longest bridge from Sicily to Italy
BY GIADA ZAMPANO AP Thousands of people marched in the Sicilian city of Messina on Saturday to protest a government plan to build ...Ukraine will not give up land, Zelensky says as US-Russia summit confirmed
Ukraine won’t give up land to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned early on Saturday, hours after Washington and Moscow agreed to hold ...Azerbaijan and Armenia sign historic agreement after decades of conflict
By SEUNG MIN KIM and MICHELLE L. PRICE, Associated Press The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan shook hands Friday at a White ...Israel to ‘take control’ of Gaza City after approving new war plan
Israel’s military will “take control” of Gaza City under a plan proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and approved by his security ...China accuses Philippines of ‘playing with fire’ on Taiwan
China accused the Philippines on Friday of “playing with fire” after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said the Southeast Asian nation would be ...Cambodia and Thailand to hammer out permanent ceasefire in Malaysia meeting
By Rozanna Latiff Reuters Cambodia and Thailand’s top defence officials began a meeting in Malaysia on Thursday to finalise a permanent end ...Trump says likely to meet Putin ‘very soon’
By Frankie TAGGART AFP Donald Trump said he could meet with Vladimir Putin “very soon,” following what the US president described as ...Israel considers full Gaza takeover as more die of hunger
By Nidal al-Mughrabi Reuters Weakened by hunger, many Gazans trek across a ruined landscape each day to haul all their drinking and ...Russia says its forces control village in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region
Russian forces pressing their slow advance through eastern Ukraine have captured the village of Sichneve in east-central Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russian Defence ...Dozens killed as Palestinians in Gaza scramble for aid from air and land
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY, Associated Press Dozens of Palestinians were killed or wounded on Monday as desperate crowds headed toward ...