KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia does not want Myanmar's junta chief to attend an upcoming Southeast Asian leaders' summit if he fails to honour his commitment to a peace plan, Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah said on Friday, ahead of a meeting to decide on...

The heavy rain earlier forecast for the upper northeastern region eased off on Friday as storm Kompasu lost strength over Vietnam and was downgraded to a low-pressure system.

There were 10,486 new Covid-19 cases and 94 more fatalities recorded during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Friday morning.

SYDNEY: Sydney will end all quarantine requirements for travellers from next month, officials said on Friday, an abrupt step toward reopening Australia's long-shuttered borders.

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: Five more communities in Muang district were put under lockdown on Friday, as the rate of Covid-19 transmissions in this southern province remained high.

KANCHANABURI: The owner of five-million-baht twin resorts first found to be encroaching on a national park in Sri Sawat district 19 years ago has finally begun dismantling them.

The head lawyer representing Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday authorities in the military-ruled country had imposed a gag order on him because they said his communications could cause instability.

WASHINGTON: Former president Bill Clinton has been hospitalised with a non-Covid-related infection, a spokesman said Thursday evening.

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on Thursday approved a plan to buy 50,000 courses of molnupiravir pills -- the world's first oral medication to treat Covid-19.

KONGSBERG (NORWAY) - A judge in Norway will rule in a custody hearing on Friday for the man who confessed to a deadly bow-and-arrow attack that police have said was probably an act of terror.