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Novak Djokovic wins Wimbledon in men’s singles final
ANKARA: World number one in tennis, Novak Djokovic won the 2019 Wimbledon title in men’s singles, beating his Swiss opponent Roger Federer in Sunday’s final which lasted nearly five hours (at Centre Court in London), Anadolu Agency reported. Djokovic beat
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Over RM12,000 spent on each drug addict a year
KUALA LUMPUR: The government spent RM12,775 on treating each drug addict per year, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Mohd Azis Jamman told the Dewan Rakyat today. He said the amount was estimated together with RM35 spent on rehabilitation cost per day
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Lift sanctions then we talk, Iran tells a sceptical US
DUBAI/PARIS: Iran is ready to hold talks with the US if Washington lifts sanctions and returns to the 2015 nuclear deal it quit last year, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech on Sunday. US President Donald Trump’s
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Judge limits ‘fishing expedition’ to 10 minutes
KUALA LUMPUR: High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali limited a ‘fishing expedition’ – the questioning by former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s defence team – to 10 minutes after the prosecution raised objections. Deputy public prosecutor V Sithambaram
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Vets remove arrow from cobra, miraculously recovering
PURI: A cobra pierced with an arrow made a miraculous recovery after being rescued by vets in India’s eastern Odisha state on Friday. Locals of Puri city attacked the cobra with an iron arrow which pierced the snake’s body and
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Death in custody: Incapacity for outrage in ‘New Malaysia’
What does it take to make every elected representative and police officer feel outrage whenever there is a case of a death in custody? Under the bad old Barisan Nasional 9BN) regime, deaths in police and enforcement agencies’ custody were
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Pos Lenjang Orang Asli warded for malaria
PUCHONG: A total of 10 Orang Asli in Pos Lenjang, Kuala Lipis in Pahang have fallen ill, suspected to be due to plasmodium vivax malaria. Of this number nine have been warded. “This is the most dangerous kind of Malaria.
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India’s space launch delayed by technical problem
The launch of India’s second lunar mission has been halted less than an hour before the scheduled blast-off, due to a technical problem. The countdown stopped 56 minutes before the launch after a “technical snag was observed in launch vehicle
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Trade war bites on China’s second-quarter GDP growth
BEIJING: China is expected to report today that economic growth slowed to its weakest pace in at least 27 years in the second quarter, reinforcing the case for more stimulus as a bruising trade war with the US drags on.
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Najib turns his guns on Nazri Aziz
PUCHONG: Barisan Nasional advisory council chairman Datuk Seri Najib Razak has turned his guns on Padang Rengas MP Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz by stating that Nazri was responsible in eroding the Chinese support for the coalition and opposing cooperation with
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