The 17 key elements will play a vital role in the global economy in coming years

All cargoes are scheduled for January shipment from US Gulf Coast terminals and Pacific Northwest ports, the sources said.

French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday that France must not be “weak” faced with the threat from Russia, while emphasising it had no intention of “sending our young people” to fight in the Ukraine war.

Russia rained missiles and drones overnight on Kyiv, killing six people, authorities said yesterday, as three people died in Russia’s Rostov region in massive Ukrainian strikes.

Israel’s war in Gaza has ravaged the Palestinian territory’s economy and is threatening its very survival, the United Nations warned yesterday, calling for “immediate and substantial” international intervention.

The United States presented the warring Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) with a strong text for a peace plan but neither side has accepted it, senior US envoy Massad Boulos said yesterday.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing the “Genesis Mission,” a national initiative to harness AI for scientific breakthroughs, comparing its scope to the Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb during World War II.

The UN human rights office said yesterday that at least 127 civilians had been killed in Lebanon in strikes by the Israel military since a ceasefire nearly a year ago, and called for an investigation and for the truce to be respected.

Afghanistan’s Taliban administration said yesterday that nine children and a woman were killed in Pakistani air strikes and vowed to respond, ratcheting up tensions between the South Asian neighbours.

Dramatic international funding cuts have thrown the global HIV response into turmoil

The UAE has been widely accused of arming the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, who are at war with the army-backed government

Mujahid said Pakistan also carried out raids in the provinces of Kunar and Paktika, injuring four civilians.

The Hayli Gubbi volcano, located in Ethiopia's Afar region about 800km northeast of Addis Ababa near the Eritrean border, erupted on Sunday for several hours

Reuters could not immediately verify the report

The launch triggered a wave of online sleuthing

Unprecedented move could reopen cases of thousands who sought US protection

The UN rights chief yesterday lamented the “meagre results” at the COP30 climate summit, warning that the “fatal inaction” of leaders might one day be considered a crime against humanity.

Israeli drone strikes in Gaza’s Khan Younis killed at least four Palestinians yesterday morning, hospital sources said.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos said yesterday his family was “very worried” about his senator sister, suggesting she was unwell after she accused him of drug abuse at a recent rally.

The Trump administration is ending temporary legal status for citizens of Myanmar who are in the United States, the US Department of Homeland Security said in a notice yesterday.