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Pentagon authorizes $1 bn for Trump’s border wall
WASHINGTON: Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan said Monday he had authorized US$1 billion (RM4 billion) to build part of the wall sought by President Donald Trump along the US-Mexico border. The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon to build 92km
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Bangladesh celebrates 49th Independence Day
BANGLADESH: Marking the separation of what was East Pakistan and Pakistan, Bangladesh Independence Day is a national holiday celebrated on 26 March. On that date in 1971, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman signed a declaration making East Pakistan the sovereign and independent country of Bangladesh It
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LFL pans Home Ministry over stateless children stand
PUCHONG: Legal rights NGO Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) panned Home Ministry over its stand on stateless children. “By virtue of the 2nd schedule part 2 section 1(a) of the constitution, as long as one of the parents of the child
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PM Mahathir: LIMA triggers Malaysia to keep up with growing defence industry
LANGKAWI: The introduction of Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) in 1991 has helped to trigger Malaysia keep up with the catalytic and rapidly growing defence industry, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The Prime Minister, when launching LIMA ‘19
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In an unfortunate mix-up, British Airways plane lands in Scotland, not Germany
The flight on Monday seemed to go perfectly well, until passengers realized that their plane had landed in both the wrong city and the wrong country. The British Airways flight from London City Airport was supposed to head to Duesseldorf,
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Dr Mahathir: I’m also disappointed with remarks by Nurul Izzah
ALOR SETAR – PKR’s Nurul Izzah Anwar has come under fire from PPBM leaders over an interview with Singapore’s Straits Times in which she called party chairman and Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad a former dictator. “Never mind, many people
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Trump recognizes Golan Heights as Israeli, boosting Netanyahu and angering Syria
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday recognized Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights in an election boost for visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, prompting a sharp response from Syria, which once held the strategic land. With Netanyahu
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Bangladeshi gets 10 years’ jail for slashing girlfriend’s face
PETALING JAYA: A Bangladeshi man was sentenced to 10 years’ jail and a stroke of the rotan by the Sessions Court here today for slashing his former girlfriend on the face last month. Saidol Islam, 22, maintained his guilty plea
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Bursa Malaysia trades higher in early session
KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia rebounded from the negative close yesterday to trade higher at opening Tuesday and in tracking the upbeat external environment. At 9.05 am, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) rose 1.49 points to 1,650.64 from
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Channel W ex-employees urge govt to take action against employer
KUALA LUMPUR: Several former staff of Channel W handed over a memorandum to the government urging that stern action be taken against their former employer who they claimed had mistreated 15 ex-employees of the firm. The memorandum which was submitted
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