Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has ordered his country's armed forces to have 20,000 soldiers ready for a possible UN peacekeeping mission in the Gaza Strip, Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin said on Friday. Speaking at the Defence Ministry in Jakarta, Sjamsoeddin said the force would include personnel with medical and engineering expertise to support large-scale humanitarian operations, the Indonesian news agency Antara reported. The contingent is being prepared to treat war victims, restore essential services and help rebuild key infrastructure needed for daily life in the enclave....
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is to attend a Group of 20 (G20) summit in South Africa despite the cancellations of other world leaders, a government spokesman said on Friday. The format - which brings together the world's leading industrialized and emerging economies - remains "an important multilateral forum for coordination for Germany," spokesman Steffen Meyer said on Friday. The comments came ahead of the G20 summit in Johannesburg next week that will not feature the presidents of the United States, China and Russia. The German government wants to maintain the G20 round as a crisis resp...