| The death of a 21-year-old motorcycle delivery driver, Affan Kurniawan, who was run over by an armored police vehicle in Jakarta, turned what appeared to be manageable protests over rising living costs into the most serious test yet for President Prabowo Subianto. While the Indonesian capital appeared calmer today, days of demonstrations left at least four people dead and hundreds injured, while buildings throughout the country were set ablaze.  A police headquarters set on fire and looted in Surabaya, Indonesia, yesterday. Photographer: Juni Kriswanto/AFP/Getty Images The prime minister of Yemen's Houthi government, Ahmed Ghalib Al-Rahwi, was killed in Israeli strikes on Thursday, along with a number of ministers, the group's presidency said at the weekend. Israel meanwhile claimed it killed a key Hamas spokesman, Abu Obeida, in a Gaza City airstrike. The Trump administration said it will deny US visas to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials, likely making it impossible for them to attend this month's UN General Assembly. French Prime Minister François Bayrou struck a combative tone in an effort to gain support for a confidence vote next Monday he called to break a budget deadlock, while acknowledging that talks with political parties may fail to save his government. Leaders of the far-right National Rally and Socialist party said they only planned to participate in the meetings called by Bayrou out of courtesy. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he hasn't given up hope that a ceasefire can be secured in Ukraine, but he's preparing for the possibility "that this war could go on for a long time." President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Saturday that he'd spoken with Modi about Russia's latest strikes on Ukraine, and that the Indian leader had agreed on the need for a ceasefire.  Zelenskiy during a news conference in Kyiv on Friday. Photographer: Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg Trump is following through with a promise to rain retribution on political opponents and the FBI raid on the home of his former national security adviser-turned-critic John Bolton smacked of an escalation. Meanwhile, a federal appeals court ruling that the president's tariffs were issued illegally extended the chaos in global trade, while a separate case blocked a policy that for months has allowed federal agents to remove undocumented immigrants without due process. A Thai pro-democracy party whose rise to power has been thwarted by the country's conservative establishment is in pole position to anoint its next prime minister, following the court ousting of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. The Thai royal household meanwhile said the health of Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendira Debyavati, who has been unconscious for almost three years, has stabilized.  Well-wishers bow in front of an image of the princess at Chulalongkorn Hospital in Bangkok after her collapse due to a heart condition in 2022. Photographer: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images The Trump administration will make it harder for Samsung and SK Hynix to ship critical equipment to their chipmaking operations in China, dealing a potential blow to the companies' production in the world's largest semiconductor market. Norway picked the UK as the supplier of frigates for its navy in a deal the defense ministry in London said was worth £10 billion ($13.5 billion), the biggest ever investment in the Nordic country's defense. Sudan's army-backed government accused its paramilitary foes of a fatal attack on oil facilities crucial to the export of neighboring South Sudan's crude, the latest escalation in a two-year civil war. | 
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