Malaysian Parliament’s lower house votes to abolish death penalty
The bill now goes to the upper chamber and, if passed, would be sent to the king to be signed into law.
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Two female anti-Putin bombers ‘behind fatal blogger blast’ revealed as video ‘shows one carrying TNT-laden statue’
TWO alleged anti-Putin bombers have been accused of orchestrating a deadly explosion that killed a Russian military blogger.
Darya Tryopova, 26, reportedly handed the TNT-laden statue to Bile-monger Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, that erupted in a St Peters…
Timeline: Long road to Northern Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement
Northern Ireland is to mark the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10.
Aboriginal Australian ‘national treasure’ Yunupingu dies
Yunupingu played a pivotal role in Aboriginal Australians’ fight for ancestral land rights during the 1960s and 70s.
India opposition leader Rahul Gandhi challenges jail sentence
Congress leader files plea in Surat court following two-year jail sentence in defamation case brought by BJP legislator.
Finland’s ‘Party’ PM Sanna Marin concedes election defeat after becoming world’s youngest prime minister at 34
SANNA Marin has failed to be re-elected as Finland’s prime minister after becoming the world’s youngest leader at the age of 34.
The so-called “party PM”, now 37, was last year dubbed the “coolest politician in the worl…
Kosovo’s Thaci and other KLA members to face war crimes trial
Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three co-defendants are charged with war crimes in 1998-1999 war with Serbia.
Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters
Ban will not affect privately owned electric scooters, of which 700,000 were sold nationwide last year.
Christian faithful mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem
Christian pilgrims have participated in Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem at the start of the Holy Week.
Car bomb rocks a suburb of Syria’s capital Damascus
Police sources say there were no casualties after the bomb went off in a busy area of the affluent Mezze suburb.