Putrajaya, Malaysia (AFP): Malaysian anti-graft authorities have questioned former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin following allegations that his party misused public funds meant to fight Covid-19. Muhyiddin was prime minister for 17 months between 2020 and 2021, at the height of Malaysia’s battle against the coronavirus, and now leads a...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s election commission has postponed the March 11 election for state governors, the country’s election commission said. “The commission has taken the difficult but necessary decision to reschedule the governorship and state House of Assembly elections which will now take place on Saturday 18th March...
Jakarta, Indonesia (AFP): The death toll from a landslide on a remote Indonesian island rose to 30 after rescuers found more bodies on Thursday, an official said. The landslide struck Monday on Serasan Island, located in the Natuna region between Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia. “As of 11:50 am (0450 GMT) today, nine bodies have been [&he...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Two Palestinians were wounded by Israeli fire when army forces dispersed a protest in the West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday, according to local medics. The violence erupted when Israeli forces intervened to disperse a Palestinian protest against an Israeli raid in Jenin city on Tuesday in which six Palestin...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The death toll from Tuesday’s powerful blast at a commercial building in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka has risen to 19. The blast also wounded more than 100 people, including dozens with critical injuries. The rescue operation was still going on as a debris was piled up on the ground floor of the […]
Qalyub, Egypt (AFP): Two people were killed and several others injured Tuesday in a train accident north of Cairo, Egypt’s health ministry said after the country’s latest rail tragedy. A ministry statement said there were “two dead in the train accident at Qalyub, while the injured are in a stable condition.” An earlier...
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP): At least 15 people were killed and more than 100 were injured in Bangladesh’s capital Tuesday, officials said, after an explosion inside an office building in a bustling commercial district. The cause of the blast remained unclear but fatal building fires and explosions are common in Bangladesh, where safety enfo...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli troops on Tuesday killed six Palestinians in Jenin, the latest deadly raid in a surge of violence in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian health ministry said six men had been killed, one aged 49 and the rest in their 20s, in clashes that the army said included soldiers launching […]
Jakarta, Indonesia (AFP): Rescuers on a remote Indonesian island were searching Tuesday for dozens missing after a landslide that killed 15 people, an official said. Poor weather and downed communication lines complicated rescue efforts on the far-flung island of Serasan, in the Natuna region between Borneo and peninsular Malaysia, home to abo...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel on Tuesday blamed Iran for a cyberattack that targeted a leading engineering educational institute in the country last month. In a statement, the Israel National Cyber Directorate said the cyberattack on the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa city was carried out by a hacking group that works for Iran. [...
