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Malaysia Airlines: Business class rates discounted by 40%
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines is offering a discount of up to 40% on Business Class fares for both domestic and international destinations. The special promotion starts from today and ends on March 2, for immediate travels up to Jan 31,
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Rapper Pop Smoke shot dead in Hollywood Hills home
LOS ANGELES: Rapper Pop Smoke was shot and killed yesterday in a rented multi-million-dollar home in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills, and police said they were searching for several suspects, at least one whom was armed and wearing a mask during
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Bloomberg comes under fire at Democratic presidential debate in Nevada
LAS VEGAS: Michael Bloomberg came under heavy fire at his first Democratic presidential debate yesterday, with rivals leaping to criticise him as a billionaire copy of President Donald Trump who would lead the party to defeat in November. The nationally
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M-League to feature two female referees in 2020 season
PETALING JAYA: Female referees will be making their debut in the 2020 Malaysian League season, kicking off on Feb 28. Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) Referee Committee chairman, Md Dali Wahid said the two women, a referee and an assistant referee have been
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Three new cases of COVID-19 in Singapore, 34 cases discharged
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Health Ministry yesterday confirmed three additional cases of COVID-19 in the republic, bringing the total number of positive cases to 84. All three new cases are Singapore citizens with no recent travel history to China. One of them is
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Long-time Trump adviser Stone to be sentenced by judge he antagonised
WASHINGTON: Since his January 2019 arrest, US President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone has repeatedly tested the patience of the federal judge who presided over his trial. Today, that judge will tell the self-described “dirty trickster” how long he
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JTI: Malaysia is losing billions yearly due to contraband cigarettes
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has been losing RM5 billion in tax revenue annually from the sale of illegal cigarettes, according to Japan Tobacco International Bhd (JTI Malaysia). An Illicit Cigarettes Study (ICS) conducted by research house Nielsen, commissioned by the Confederation
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‘Trump offered pardon to Assange with a condition’
LONDON: US President Donald Trump offered to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he declared that Russia had nothing to do with WikiLeaks’ publication of Democratic Party emails in 2016, a London court heard yesterday. Assange appeared by videolink from
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Guan Eng did not chair meeting on Tabung Haji -Minister’s office
KUALA LUMPUR: The office of the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department denied that Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng had chaired a meeting on Lembaga Tabung Haji (TH) as seen in a photo which had gone viral on social media. It explained
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Shooting in German shisha bars leaves at least eight people dead
At least eight people were killed in a shooting incident late yesterday in the German city of Hanau, mass-selling Bild newspaper reported, citing prosecutors. Police in Hanau, east of Frankfurt, could not be reached for comment. The motive for the
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