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Allies tepid on Trump ‘Board of Peace’ with US$1b permanent member fee
WASHINGTON, Jan 20 — Key allies reacted coolly yesterday to US President Donald Trump’s invite to pay US$1 billion (RM4.05 billion) for a permanent spot on his “Board of Peace” for resolving international conflicts, with analysts likening it to a
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Karachi mall inferno kills 15, over 60 still missing as firefighters comb ruins
KARACHI, Jan 19 — Pakistani firefighters began searching the smouldering remains of a sprawling Karachi shopping mall on Monday for more than 60 people still missing after a massive fire that killed at least 15 people. The fire started late
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Putin also invited to Trump’s Gaza ‘Board of Peace’, says Kremlin
MOSCOW, Jan 19 — Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to join US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” meant to oversee governance and reconstruction in postwar Gaza, the Kremlin said Monday. ”President Putin also received an invitation to
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Rescuers recover one body from Indonesian fisheries plane crash, nine still missing
JAKARTA, Jan 18 — Indonesian authorities said on Sunday they had located the wreckage of a fisheries surveillance plane that went missing in South Sulawesi province on the slope of a fog-covered mountain and had recovered the body of one
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Indonesia locates wreckage of missing fisheries plane, search continues for 11 on board
JAKARTA, Jan 18 — Indonesian authorities said on Sunday they had located the wreckage of a fisheries surveillance plane that went missing in South Sulawesi province near a fog-covered mountain, but were still searching for the 11 people on board.
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Pentagon orders 1,500 troops on standby for possible Minnesota deployment
WASHINGTON, Jan 18 — The US Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing defence officials. The Army placed the units on prepare-to-deploy orders in case violence in
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Indonesia launches desperate search after plane carrying officials and crew vanishes over Sulawesi
MAKASSAR, Jan 18 — Indonesian authorities are searching for a plane carrying three government workers and seven crew members after contact with the aircraft was lost on Saturday, officials said. The Indonesia Air Transport turboprop plane left from Yogyakarta and
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EU safety agency tells airlines to avoid Iranian airspace amid US-Iran tensions
PARIS, Jan 17 — The European Union Aviation Safety Agency on Friday advised airlines to avoid Iranian airspace, after threats of US attacks that have put the Islamic republic on guard. “Given the ongoing situation and the potential for US
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Gun, fitness and ‘all things military’: US armed forces newspaper gets Pentagon reboot, goodbye ‘woke distractions’
WASHINGTON, Jan 16 — The US Defense Department said Thursday it would overhaul the editorially independent, Pentagon-funded Stars and Stripes military newspaper to refocus the publication away from “woke distractions.” Stars and Stripes was first published over 150 years ago
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UN warns Gaza cannot wait: ‘Inhumane’ conditions demand urgent reconstruction
JERUSALEM, Jan 16 — A top United Nations official on Thursday called for accelerating reconstruction work in Gaza, saying Palestinians there were living in “inhumane” conditions, even as a US-backed truce entered its second phase. “I wouldn’t have imagined what
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