NDTV News: Malaysia’s highest court Tuesday upheld former prime minister Najib Razak’s 12-year jail sentence for corruption in the 1MDB financial scandal, a decision analysts said could slam the door to a political comeback. Chief Justice Maimun Tuan Mat also issued a warrant of committal, which a lawyer said means Najib is going immediately to […]
NDTV news: Sri Lanka is ranked fifth among the 10 countries with the highest food price inflation in the world, according to the latest World Bank assessment. In its Food Security update, the World Bank said trade policy actions on food and fertilizers have surged since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Countries actively […]
AL JAZEERA: At least 20 people have been killed in flash floods in central Afghanistan, a disaster management official said, with heavy rain destroying thousands of homes and damaging agricultural land. The country has been reeling from natural disasters this year, including a drought and a massive earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people in […]
BBC News: Bangladesh will close schools for one more day each week and reduce office hours to ease an electricity shortage, a government official says. Last month, the South Asian nation started daily two-hour power cuts. Protesters have taken to the streets in recent weeks after the government raised petrol prices by more than 50%. […]
Reuters: Aug 23 – Ukraine marks six months on Wednesday since Russia invaded the country in what Russian President Vladimir Putin calls a “special military operation”. Ukraine and its Western backers accuse Moscow of waging an unprovoked war of aggression with the aim of grabbing land and erasing Ukrainian national identity. Putin said his aim […]
Reuters: TAIPEI, Aug 23 – Taiwan saw off China’s military six decades ago when its forces bombarded offshore Taiwanese islands and that resolve to defend the homeland continues to this day, President Tsai Ing-wen told a visiting group of former U.S. officials on Tuesday. Tensions between Taiwan and China have spiked over the past month […]
ABC News: BANGKOK — Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Monday received a petition from opposition lawmakers seeking a ruling on whether Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has reached the legal limit on how long he can remain in office. The petition, signed by 171 members of the House of Representatives, asks the nine-member court to rule on […]
ABC News: PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia — Former Prime Minister Najib Razak sought Tuesday to remove Malaysia’s top judge from the final appeal against his 12-year prison sentence in a graft case linked to the massive looting of the 1MDB state fund. The new twist came after a five-member Federal Court bench, led by Chief Justice Maimun […]
BBC News: Former US President Donald Trump has asked a judge to freeze a justice department investigation of files seized from his home in an FBI search. In a lawsuit, his legal team asked that an independent lawyer be appointed to oversee documents that agents removed from Mar-a-Lago in Florida this month. Eleven sets of […]
BBC News: Britain, France, Germany and the US have stressed the need to ensure the safety of nuclear installations threatened by the conflict in Ukraine. In a phone call on Sunday, the four leaders also reiterated their support for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion. Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of shelling a Russian-held nuclear […]
