Pavel Palazhchenko, who worked with the late Soviet president for 37 years and was at his side at numerous US-Soviet summits, spoke to Gorbachev a few weeks ago by phone and said he and others had been struck by how traumatised he was by events in Ukraine.

The 73-year-old fled the island under military escort in July after unarmed crowds stormed his official residence, following months of angry demonstrations blaming him for the nation's unprecedented economic crisis.

"I know that he's obviously thinking about it, he hates seeing what's happening in the country," Jared Kushner told Sky News.

Suu Kyi was "sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour", a source with knowledge of the case said, adding that the Nobel laureate, 77, appeared to be in good health.

Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar told delegates that countries would have to act together to tackle global warming or risk the planet ending up in “uncharted territory where no future will be sustainable”.

Speaking in Philadelphia, the cradle of US democracy, the president launched an extraordinary assault on those Republicans who embrace Trump's "Make America Great Again" ideology -- and urged his own supporters to fight back.

Prominent figures from Timor Leste’s independence movement are calling for Indonesia to lead more on the global stage, amid efforts to help the country join ASEAN.

Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr is expected to depart for Indonesia on his maiden official overseas trip, according to the Philippine foreign ministry.

Objections to language on climate targets and the war in Ukraine prevented a joint communique from being issued at the G20 ministerial meeting in Bali on Wednesday, diplomatic sources said.

Rodgrigo Ventocilla, 32, was a Peruvian graduate student at Harvard celebrating his honeymoon in Bali. His death has outraged LGBT activists who have accused Peruvian diplomats of not doing enough to protect him.

Australia closed its borders for about two years during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic but those strict rules and an exodus of holiday workers and foreign students left businesses struggling to find staff and keep their businesses afloat.

Her conviction by the High Court came just nine days after her husband Najib Razak, Malaysia's former premier, began serving a 12-year jail term for offences linked to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB financial scandal.

"Today at 4:57 am (0157 GMT), due to another mortar shelling by the Russian occupying forces at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant site, the emergency protection was activated and operating power unit 5 was shut down," Energoatom said, referring to the reactor.   

"The accused is found guilty of all three charges," High Court Judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan said as Rosmah sat quietly in the dock.

The two leaders agreed in a phone call in late July to explore the possibility of holding their first face-to-face meeting since Biden took office in January last year. But tensions between the two countries have increased following US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit in early August to Taiwan, a self-ruled democratic island which Beijing views as its own.

The report was immediately met by a lengthy rebuttal from China's mission to Geneva.

Rainsy, 73, was targeted with two separate complaints by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his son-in-law and deputy national police chief, Dy Vichea, over Facebook posts dating back to 2019.

The government is aiming to connect Batam to both Singapore and the neighboring Malaysian city of Johor in a move that Coordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto has said could accelerate development in the surrounding areas. 

Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar had started the meeting by urging countries to cut emissions and prevent the planet from being pushed to a point "where no future will be sustainable".

The United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27, will be held in November in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Lula is the frontrunner in opinion polls ahead of Brazil's October election.

"Mahathir has only mild symptoms of the Covid infection," an aide told AFP on condition of anonymity. 

From September 7, Japan will also raise its daily cap on the number of people allowed to enter the country to 50,000, Kishida told reporters.

The call came at a one-day meeting on the resort island of Bali, at the end of a month in which more than 1,000 people died in Pakistan from flooding blamed on climate change and a crippling drought exacerbated by a record heat wave spread across half of China.

World leaders were quick to pay tribute to the man who oversaw the collapse of the USSR, a pivotal turning point in world history.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union who played a major role in ending the Cold War, died in Moscow on Tuesday aged 91.

Nearly four million people in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, were ordered to stay home until the end of the week as officials rush to curb a small virus flare-up.

Coordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto said that the regional grouping needs to have a funding mechanism that would allow the shipment of basic food staples such as rice from one country to another in the event of a food scarcity problem in some parts of the region.