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Elite armed forces battled the militants for 30 hours from Friday evening after the attackers blasted and shot their way into the hotel.

Taiwan wants "meaningful talks" with China on the basis of equality and mutual respect as long as Beijing wants to ease the stand-off.

Chinese ingenuity and perseverance after being humiliated by the western powers have made them resilient to future challenges.

Volkswagen will hold talks Monday with two component suppliers, in a bid to end a stand-off over car parts deliveries that has severely disrupted production.

Taiwan has asked Uber Technologies to pay a sales tax bill estimated by local media to be up to about $6.4 million, the government said on Friday.

The armed men gave themselves up a day after police warned they would storm the building to draw a line under the crisis.

Gunmen locked in a lengthy stand-off with police in Armenia have released their last two hostages.

Australia will built a permanent memorial to remember the victims of the Sydney cafe siege, officials said Sunday as they vowed never to forget the two hostages who died in the stand-off.

The US and Cuba brought their bitter Cold War stand-off towards a historic close, agreeing to revive diplomatic ties and to ease a five-decade US trade embargo.

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has voiced solidarity with the Australian Government and its people, following a hostage stand-off at a cafe in Sydney.

About 30 immigration officers were holed up for two hours at an entertainment outlet in Melaka Raya here on Wednesday after they were surrounded by about 100 thugs.

The dollar slipped further against the yen and euro as the budget stand-off on Capitol Hill approaches a seventh day with no end in sight.

The former academic is orchestrating a stand-off in the southern port city of Zamboanga that has claimed more than 100 lives.

Muslim rebels seized dozens more hostages and traded gunfire with Philippines troops, in the second day of a stand-off.

Egyptian police cleared Islamist protesters from a Cairo mosque on Saturday after a stand-off that included exchanges of fire, as the death toll from four days of violence surpassed 750.

Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.

It represents a big legal victory for Donald Trump, who won the Nov. 5 US election and is set to return to office on Jan. 20.

Rescue services said the plane hit the ground, split into pieces and slid over 100 metres (110 yards).

The warm-up matches will involve matches against better ranked teams in the world, namely Austria (first) and Belgium (third).

The United States, part of the G7, has rejected the ICC decision, with President Joe Biden describing it as outrageous.

A legend who has influenced our music for decades, was one of the highlights of my career, says Francissca Peter.

Judges are reviewing TikTok's challenge to a law requiring ByteDance to sell its US assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban.

In Washington, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said, "We're close" but "nothing is done until everything is done".

Chaebols are prominent figures from South Korea's family-owned conglomerates.

The implementation of the RON95 subsidy in 2025 is expected to provide savings of RM3.6 billion to government expenditure.