Rishi Sunak says "we have a proud record of supporting victims of modern slavery" after Jess Phillips accused the prime minister of tweeting that "victims would be denied access" to support. The shadow home office minister suggested that the tweet would be used by traffickers to say "see, no one will help you.".
KOTA KINABALU, March 24 — Umno’s six-year suspension of Putatan MP Datuk Shahelmey Yahya was meant to show parties in Sa...
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 — Datuk Rohana Rozhan has returned US$10 million linked to the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) s...
KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his wife Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail have j...
KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 — The Ministry of Finance (MOF) has come to the defence of its former minister Lim Guan Eng by st...
The US State Department has awarded Senator Ras Adiba Radzi the 2023 International Woman of Courage (IWOC) award, making her Malaysia’s fourth recipient. The disability-rights advocate was one of 11 recipients chosen from among 60 candidates from around the world at the White House award ceremony on March 11. Speaking to Free Malaysia Today, she…
PUTRAJAYA, March 22 — Pakatan Harapan (PH) secretary-general Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said that he has yet t...
KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 — Six years ago, the Federal Court — which is the highest court in Malaysia — declared that it is...
Mr Trump’s rant about the city comes as a panel of New Yorkers will soon decide his fate – voting whether or not he will make history as the only former or current US president to ever be criminally indicted
KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — DAP chairman Lim Guan Eng today said that he is lodging a police report against former prime mi...
Russia threatened to escalate attacks in Ukraine after the British government announced it would provide to Ukraine a type of munition that Moscow falsely claims has nuclear components. The British defense ministry on Monday confirmed it would provide Ukraine with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium. Such rounds were developed by the U.S. during the Cold War to destroy Soviet tanks, including the same T-72 tanks that Ukraine now faces in its push to break through a stalemate in the east.
An Indian court Thursday found opposition leader Rahul Gandhi guilty of defamation for a 2019 campaign trail remark implying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a criminal.Gandhi is the son, grandson and great-grandson of a dynasty of former Indian prime ministers, beginning with independence leader Jawaharlal Nehru.
Chinese President Xi Jinping left Moscow on Wednesday, March 22, after a three-day visit for meetings with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.Following the talks, the two sides issued joint statements on the deepening of a comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, saying they would develop key areas of Russian-Chinese economic cooperation.The Chinese president invited his Russian counterpart to visit China during an informal meeting, according to Tass.Xi’s flight left Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow.Xi’s trip came just days after the International Criminal Court announced a case against Putin for alleged war crimes in Ukraine. Credit: Zvezda News via Storyful
Ex-aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff denies Melania left White House for DC hotel as Stormy Affair came to light in 2018
KOTA KINABALU, March 24 — Umno’s six-year suspension of Putatan MP Datuk Shahelmey Yahya was meant to show parties in Sa...
Ukrainian troops, on the defensive for four months, will launch a long-awaited counterassault "very soon" now that Russia's huge winter offensive is losing steam without taking Bakhmut, Ukraine's top ground forces commander said on Thursday. The remarks were the strongest indication yet from Kyiv that it is close to shifting tactics, having absorbed Russia's onslaught through a brutal winter. Russia's Wagner mercenaries "are losing considerable strength and are running out of steam", Kyiv's ground forces commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said in a social media post.
Tensions between France and Germany driven by differences over nuclear energy and combustion engines cast a shadow over a meeting of the 27 European Union leaders Thursday.While Germany led the revolt against the combustion engine ban, it is not alone.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 — Pakatan Harapan (PH) cannot afford to lose Selangor in the state election that must be called t...
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday dismissed Russian complaints about Britain's announcement that it will send Ukraine ammunition containing depleted uranium."NATO allies are following international rules and international law in everything they do in their support for Ukraine," Stoltenberg told AFP when asked about the British plans and Russian complaints.
Chinese diplomats expressed their strong opposition to an expanded United States military presence in the Philippines in closed-door talks with their Filipino counterparts Thursday in Manila, a Filipino official said, underscoring the intense U.S.-China rivalry in the region. The Philippine official, who attended the meeting, told The Associated Press about China's intense objections on condition of anonymity for lack of authority to discuss what transpired at the start of the two-day talks. The Filipino diplomats responded by saying the decision to allow an expanded American military presence was in their national interest and would boost Philippine capability to respond to natural disasters, the official said, suggesting it was not aimed at China.
Sweden's parliament voted Wednesday in favour of joining NATO despite delays by Hungary and Turkey to ratify its membership bid, which will likely lead to Sweden joining after neighbouring Finland.But Sweden has had several diplomatic spats with NATO member Turkey, which have delayed its membership bid and chances of joining at the same time as Finland.
