Aide says Bolsonaro floated Brazil coup with military officers after election -reports

(Reuters) - A close aide to Jair Bolsonaro told police the former Brazilian president and senior military officers met last year to discuss a military intervention to overturn the result of the election after he lost, newspaper O Globo and news website UOL reported on Thursday. Bolsonaro's former aide, Mauro Cid, agreed this month to cooperate...

Airbnb says it’s cracking down on fake listings and has removed 59,000 of them this year

Fake listings have emerged as a major problem for Airbnb, threatening to scare off consumers and prompting the short-term rental service to use AI in an effort to crack down on fraudsters. Airbnb says it has removed 59,000 fake listings and prevented another 157,000 from joining the platform this year. Fake listings and high cleaning fees are...

More than just doctors in medicine

PETALING JAYA: While many school leavers are unhappy about not receiving an offer to study medicine at a public university, experts are saying there are other areas in healthcare that offers various rewarding career opportunities. Not only are these alternative paths facing a significant shortage of professionals, they also offer good earning and learning potential. As the...

Congo president asks UN peacekeepers to start packing up this year

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has asked his government to fast track the withdrawal of a United Nations peacekeeping mission to ensure it begins at the end of the year, he said at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday. The mission, called MONUSCO, took over from an earlier U.N. operation in...

US offers work permits to half million Venezuelans already in country

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. will grant temporary deportation relief and access to work permits to nearly half a million Venezuelans already in the country, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, a move that follows calls by Democrats to help newly arrived migrants work legally. About 472,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. on or before July 31 now will...

Drug addiction cases up by 27% in first six months of 2023, says AADK

KUALA SELANGOR: Drug addiction cases in this country have increased by 27% in the first six months of this year to 118,820 addicts compared with 93,534 addicts reported in the same period last year. The National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK) director-general Sutekno Ahmad Belon said this upward trend is worrying as more than half of the number...

‘Stop the war’ and Zelenskiy need not speak, UN Security Council chair tells Russia

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -It was to be Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy's first in- person appearance at a U.N. Security Council meeting on Moscow's invasion of his country when Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia objected to him taking the floor at the start of the meeting. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, serving as president of the tense session,...

Trump says if elected again he will send troops to US-Mexico border

(Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that if elected again he would shift resources from federal law enforcement agencies and send thousands of overseas-based troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. Speaking to supporters in Iowa, where the Republican Party's first nominating contest for the November 2024 election will be held in January, Trump also...

Johor plans to revive pedestrian shortcut

JOHOR BARU: The state government will push for the reopening of a pedestrian shortcut to the Bangunan Sultan Iskandar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine Complex (BSI CIQ), including facilitating a study to look into its feasibility. State works, transportation and infrastructure committee chairman Mohamad Fazli Mohamad Salleh said he will bring the matter up in the coming...

M’sia ready to buy military equipment from Turkiye, says Anwar

NEW YORK: Malaysia has expressed its willingness to buy military equipment from Turkiye, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar said prior to this, some of Malaysia’s military equipment had been purchased from South Korea, adding that the choice of suitable purchases from Turkiye will be decided by the Malaysian Armed Forces Council. "We could be...