MTV music channels to shut down after 40 years

Say goodbye to your Pimp My Ride Saturdays and My Super Sweet Sixteen dreams: Music Television (MTV)’s dedicated music channels are shutting down after 40 years, and the internet is in full nostalgia meltdown. Yes, the same MTV that gave us Total Request Live (TRL), MTV Cribs and all those unforgettable chaotic moments in pop culture history is officially ending its music broadcast era. For...

Gold hits record high on US rate cut bets; silver follows suit

Gold prices moved past $4,100 to a record high on Tuesday on increased prospects of U.S. Federal Reserve rate cuts, while resurgent U.S.-China trade woes boosted safe-haven bets, including those for silver, which also scaled an all-time peak. Spot gold rose 0.2% to $4,117.72 per ounce at 0716 GMT, after hitting an all-time high of $4,179.48...

Trump says he spoke with Machado after White House criticised Nobel snub

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump said on Friday (Oct 10) that Nobel Prize winner Maria Corina Machado called him and said she accepted the prize in his honour, after the White House said earlier in the day that the Nobel Committee had chosen "politics over peace." The White House had criticised the Nobel Committee's...

Putin says ‘no big deal’ for Russia if US declines to extend nuclear warhead limits

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia was developing new strategic weapons and it would not be critical for Moscow if the United States declined to extend the warhead limits set out in a nuclear arms treaty that expires next year. He said it would, however, be a shame if nothing remained of...

Philippines lifts tsunami warning following magnitude 7.4 earthquake

MANILA: The Philippines' seismology agency (Phivolcs) has cancelled its tsunami warning following a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck offshore near its southern coast. "Any effects due to the tsunami warning have largely passed," Phivolcs said in an advisory. - Reuters

Global Sumud Flotilla calls for immediate action after Israeli attack on vessel Meteque in international waters

ANKARA: The Global Sumud Flotilla issued an urgent appeal to governments and international institutions after Israeli naval forces attacked and boarded its vessel Meteque in international waters on Thursday (Oct 2). Anadolu Ajansi reported that the organisers said in a statement that "live-streams and communications have been cut," stressing that "the status of participants and crew...

Chants of ‘Free Palestine’ resonate as crowd gathers outside US embassy

KUALA LUMPUR: Chants of "Free Palestine" and "Down with America" echoed as a form of protest against the blockade of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) mission as a crowd gathered near the United States embassy on Jalan Tun Razak here, on Friday (Oct 3), Sinar Harian reports. The Malay language daily reported that the crowd, comprising...

Global Sumud Flotilla volunteers to be deported to Europe, says Israeli Foreign Ministry

PETALING JAYA: Israel has claimed that the intercepted Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) volunteers will be deported to Europe. “Hamas-Sumud passengers on their yachts are making their way safely and peacefully to Israel, where their deportation procedures to Europe will begin,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday...

Ukraine’s Zelenskiy proposes joint aerial shield with European allies

WARSAW (Reuters) -Ukraine would like to build a joint aerial defence shield to protect against threats from Russia together with its European partners, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday. NATO leaders have said that Russia has been testing the alliance's readiness and resolve with airspace incursions in Poland and the Baltic states, and Kyiv says...

Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra seeks royal pardon, lawyer says

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand's influential former Prime Minster Thaksin Shinawatra has submitted a petition for a royal pardon for his one year jail sentence, his lawyer said on Monday. The former premier was jailed earlier this month after the country's Supreme Court ruled that he did not serve his initial prison sentence after spending six months in...