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Monday, 6 February 2012
Malaysia's team in Philippines to identify militants

THE Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) has sent a special team to identify three militants killed in an air strike by the Philippine Air Force on a hideout of the Abu Sayyaf group on Sulu Island in southern Philippines.Home Minister Datuk Seri...
Malaysia's Agong asks Muslims to emulate Prophet

YANG di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mua'dzam Shah has called on Muslims to emulate Prophet Muhammad's (Peace be upon him) exemplary character in the effort to create an exceptional Muslim society and be a sterling example to the world....
Refrain from racial overtones: Sabah CM

SABAH Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman advised media practitioners to refrain from airing reports with racial and seditious overtones. !He said such reports could have a negative impact on the unity and harmony enjoyed by Sabah's various...
Search scaled back for PNG ferry disaster victims AFP

PAPUA New Guinea authorities scaled back their search yesterday for survivors from the sinking of a passenger ferry, saying none of the more than 100 people still missing were likely to be found alive.The Pacific nation's National Maritime Safety...
Thai troops shot dead in south

GUNMEN shot dead two paramilitary troops as they escorted Buddhist monks on their morning alms route in Thailand's restive deep south, police said yesterday.The victims, aged 37 and 42, died after attackers opened fire with assault rifles from the...
'Jolo rebels planning attacks when killed'

A KEY Abu Sayyaf commander killed in a US-backed airstrike in the southern Philippines was planning terror attacks, including new kidnappings of foreigners and bombings, when he was slain, security officials said yesterday. The pre-dawn military...
China's Wen says farmers' rights flouted by land grabs

CHINA has failed to give farmers adequate protection from arbitrary seizures of land, Premier Wen Jiabao said in comments published yesterday in which he acknowledged that the resulting discontent is fanning protests.!Wen made the comments while...
Bird flu leads to mass cull of poultry in Nepal

HEALTH workers in Nepal are to cull thousands of chickens following the discovery of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the southeastern part of the Himalayan country, officials said yesterday."We sent samples for investigation to London after...
Mass evacuation in OZ floods

THOUSANDS of Australians were forced to abandon their homes yesterday as a record deluge swept through areas still reeling from last year's devastating floods, claiming its first life.Police ordered the 3,800 residents of the town of St George, in...
US to move 4,700 Marines from Okinawa to Guam

TOKYO and Washington have agreed to move 4,700 Marines from the Japanese island of Okinawa to Guam in a bid to revive a stalled plan for the realignment of US forces in Japan, reports said yesterday. The two countries in 2006 agreed to the transfer...
7 die in Afghan car bombing

A CAR bomb exploded just outside the police headquarters of a southern Afghanistan city yesterday, killing at least seven people, officials said. The blast went off at a parking lot outside the police building in Kandahar, said Saisal Ahmad, a...
IN BRIEF

Pakistan vows to help Afghan peace effortsISLAMABAD: Pakistan will support every effort to promote reconciliation in Afghanistan, a senior government official said ahead of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's visit to Qatar Monday to discuss peace...

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