JURUSALEM (AFP): A Thai agricultural worker was killed by an anti-tank missile fired into northern Israel, Israeli emergency services said on Friday, while the army confirmed that two civilians were injured in a strike from Lebanon. Israel has been battling Hezbollah since the Iran-backed militant group started launching cross-border attacks from Lebanon in support of its...
GEORGE TOWN: The bodies of two Chinese tourists who were trapped in a car when a tree fell on it in Pinang Peranakan Mansion in Lebuh Gereja here have been recovered. Firemen managed to retrieve the bodies of a man in his 50s and a woman in her 30s, believed to be a father and daughter...
JAKARTA (Reuters): Indonesia's national human rights commission is investigating the death of a 13-year-old boy who was allegedly beaten to death by police on the island of Sumatra, officials said on Tuesday. Residents discovered the bruised body of high-school student Afif Maulana in a river close to a village in Padang, in West Sumatra on June...
CAIRO/RIYADH (Reuters): More than 1,000 people died during haj this year, according to a Reuters tally, as extreme heat hammered the nearly two million who took part in the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Most of dead were Egyptians. Security and medical sources told Reuters on Sunday that the Egyptian death toll had risen to 672...
HANOI: Nguyen Bich Ngoc, a 27-year-old Vietnamese student who went missing in France earlier this year, was pronounced dead by her family on Tuesday (June 4) after more than five months of extensive searching. "There was no miracle," said Vu Quang Minh, Vietnamese Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany. "According to a family statement, Ngoc has...
JOHOR BARU: A man from Kota Tinggi, who has been missing for almost three weeks, has been found dead inside his car at Taman Sentosa here. The victim has been identified as 33-year-old Muhammad Hamizan Ramli who went missing since May 18. Johor Baru South OCPD Asst Comm Raub Selamat said police received a distress call from...
KAJANG: A 16-year-old boy who went missing at Broga Hill on Monday (May 27) has been found dead. Sinar Daily reported that the victim's body was found at 2.50pm on Tuesday (May 28) by a search and rescue team, according to Selangor Fire and Rescue Department. The department's director, Wan Md Razali Wan Ismail, stated that the...
JOHOR BARU: Two policemen were killed while another was injured when they were attacked by an intruder at the Ulu Tiram police station early Friday (May 17) morning. Johor Police chief Comm M. Kumar said the suspect was also shot dead at the scene. He said the bodies of the deceased were sent to the Hospital Sultan...
JOHOR BARU: Two policemen were killed while another was injured when they were attacked by an intruder at the Ulu Tiram police station early Friday (May 17) morning. Johor Police chief Comm M. Kumar said the suspect was also shot dead at the scene. He said the bodies of the deceased were sent to the Hospital Sultan...
KOTA KINABALU: The pistol that caused the death of Lahad Datu OCPD's teenage daughter was kept in a locked cupboard, say Sabah police. Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Jauteh Dikun said that based on their investigations there was no negligence in terms of the firearm's storage. Jauteh said that police investigations looked at aspects of negligence in terms...
