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Modi meets mum, 95, after Indian election landslide
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dropped in on Sunday on his 95-year-old mother after his election landslide, a day ahead of a victory rally in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi. Modi, 68, told his 47.6 million Twitter followers that
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Trump backs Kim’s assessment on Biden
TOKYO: US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un agree on their assessment of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said, aligning the president with an authoritarian foreign leader over a former US
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EPF buys over UK’s Sport Direct headquarters
PUCHONG: Malaysia’s Employees Provident Fund has bought Sports Direct International Plc’s U.K. headquarters for 120 million pounds ($153 million), reported The Sunday Times, based on sources’ information. Billionaire Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct said on May 17 that it was in
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Woman, step-daughter injured in snatch theft incident
BUKIT MERTAJAM: An Indonesian woman and her step-daughter were injured after their motorcycle plunged into a drain when a snatch thief, also on a motorcycle, grabbed her waist pouch here today. Seberang Perai Tengah district police chief ACP Nik Ros
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Myanmar woman found hanging in shop-lot
IPOH: A 30-year-old Myanmar woman was found dead, hanging by the neck, at a two-storey shop in Medan Ipoh Raya on Sunday. Ipoh police chief ACP Mohd Ali Tamby said the owner of the premises made the grisly find at
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Policeman killed, 4 others injured in Songkhla bombing
SONGKHLA: A policeman was killed while four others were injured when a bomb, believed to have been buried underground, exploded when police were carrying out checks behind a railway station in Chana, Songkhla. Ninth Division police chief Police Lieutenant General
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