BANDUNG: Malaysian influencers Ammar Mohd Nazhan and Aras came forward on Friday (Feb 7) to apologise over the production of social media content claiming a friend had "disappeared" in a forest in Kota Bandung, Indonesia, recently, Sinar Harian reports. The Malay language daily said that in a statement reported by Indonesian news outlet KumparanNews, the influencers...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Five people were shot on Tuesday in an attack at a school for adults in Sweden, triggering a massive response by rescue services, police said. "This is currently seen as attempted murder, arson and aggravated weapons offence," police said in a statement, adding that the extent of the injuries of the five people who...
LONDON (Reuters) - Lawyers for British nurse Lucy Letby on Tuesday launched a new bid to overthrow her conviction for killing seven babies, after a group of international medical experts who reexamined evidence used at her trial concluded none had actually been murdered. Letby was convicted of killing the newborns and attempting to murder eight more...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke to Elon Musk on the subject of misinformation about South Africa, the presidency said on Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would suspend aid to the country over its land reform policy. Trump on Sunday accused South Africa of confiscating land and badly treating "certain...
Washington DC (AFP): Hundreds of US government websites were offline on Monday (Feb 3), an AFP review showed, including that of the humanitarian agency USAID which President Donald Trump's administration is shutting down. From a list of nearly 1,400 federal sites provided by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), more than 350 were unavailable on...
ROME (Reuters) - Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of U.S. President Donald Trump, broke Italian and European Union environmental protection laws when he hunted ducks near Venice in December, according to two Italian Green party lawmakers. Andrea Zanoni, a member of the Veneto regional assembly, and Luana Zanella, a national parliamentarian, have filed two separate...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A Singaporean man suspected of drug trafficking has been charged in a court in Johor Bahru, reported China Press. The 33-year-old, who was charged on Jan 31, faces the death penalty or life imprisonment if convicted, according to the Malaysian media outlet. He is among four people – three Singaporeans and one Thai...
PARIS (Reuters) -A French court on Monday found French film director Christophe Ruggia guilty of sexually abusing actress Adele Haenel when she was underage, in one of the first #MeToo cases to emerge from French cinema. Ruggia, who had denied the allegations against him, will avoid jail. The court in Paris sentenced him to four years,...
HONG KONG: Thai authorities rescued a Hong Kong woman from a Chinese call centre gang operating on the Myanmar side of the border near Tak, on Feb 2. The rescue of the 31-year-old Hong Kong passport holder was carried out through cooperation between the Royal Thai Army and the Royal Thai Police, following an earlier alert...
SINGAPORE: Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu, star of the seminal idol drama Meteor Garden (2001), has died at the age of 48. The news was confirmed on Feb 3 in a statement sent out to Taiwanese media by her family via her younger sister, famed Taiwanese host Dee Hsu, 46. According to Taiwanese news outlet Star ETToday, the...
