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Nigerian charged for murdering Serdang Hospital nurse
SEPANG: A 36-year-old Nigerian man was charged with murdering Serdang Hospital nursing sister Siti Kharina Mohd Kamarudin, in the Magistrate Court this morning. The accused, Alowonle Oluwajuwon Gilbert from Benin City, Nigeria was charged under Section 302 of the Penal
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RM10 mil allocation for Duchess of Kent Hospital
PUCHONG: The federal government has approved an allocation of RM10.8 million for the Duchess of Kent Hospital (HDOK) for the purchase of new medical equipment and for the construction of a new building tower. Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said
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Myanmar soldiers jailed for Rohingya killings freed in less than a year
NAYPYITAW: The Myanmar government has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and children during a 2017 military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine, two prison officials, two former fellow inmates
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Zahid Hamidi’s Quranic pointers in politics
Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Umno leader, former Deputy Prime Minister, Member of Parliament and defendant in many pending criminal trials, has a weekly column in Utusan Malaysia, arguably our nation’s foremost Malay daily. In his 600 word column
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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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