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Panelist and Court of Appeal judge Datin Evrol Mariette Peters speaks at the ‘Children’s Rights in Malaysia: From Commitments to Monitoring and Accountability’ panel session during the Human Rights Day Forum 2025 in Kuala Lumpur December 11, 2025. — Picture by Choo Choy May
Malaysia  / 7 h ago

How judges handle children in custody disputes: Court of Appeal judge shares personalised, child‑friendly approach

The Inland Revenue Board has completed tax refund payments amounting to RM14.55 billion involving 3.47 million cases as of November 30, said Deputy Finance Minister Lim Hui Ying. — Picture by Hari Anggara
Malaysia  / 19 h ago

IRB disburses RM14.55b in tax refunds to 3.47 million taxpayers, says deputy finance minister

The Malaysian Meteorological Department today issued a warning of continuous rain that is expected to hit several states until this Thursday. — Picture by Farhan Najib
Malaysia  / 18 h ago

MetMalaysia warns of continuous heavy rain in several states until Thursday

A customer buys fish at the Section 6 wet market in Shah Alam on February 16, 2023. — Yusof Mat Isa pic
Malaysia  / 5 h ago

Why are fish prices so high in Malaysia? LKIM claims wholesalers are hoarding, manipulating market

A damaged luxury car rests on a roadside embankment in Kuala Langat after the driver allegedly lost control while reaching for his mobile phone. — PDRM pic
Malaysia  / 5 h ago

Costly distraction: Man crashes Porsche in Kuala Langat after dropping phone

Subang MP Wong Chen today said the Subang Jaya City Council has agreed to fund an independent Traffic Impact Assessment for the proposed Persiaran Lagoon Selatan–Kelana Link flyover in SS14. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Malaysia  / 18 h ago

Wong Chen: MBSJ agrees to independent traffic study on Persiaran Lagoon Selatan–Kelana Link flyover

Rain clouds are seen over the city centre in Kuala Lumpur in this file picture dated December 8, 2024. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 4 h ago

Brace for rain: Thunderstorm alert until noon for Selangor, KL, N. Sembilan and Sabah

People react in front of a flower tribute near Bondi Pavilion following a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney December 15, 2025. — Reuters pic
World  / 17 h ago

What we know about the shooting victims at Sydney’s Bondi Beach Jewish event

Malaysia’s rhythmic gymnastics squad leapt, twirled, and danced their way to a team gold at the SEA Games Thailand 2025, today. — Reuters pic
Sports  / 18 h ago

Malaysia’s rhythmic gymnastics squad dazzles with routines to clinch SEA Games gold

A handout photo taken and released by the Australian Prime Minister's Office on December 15, 2025 shows Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (2nd left) walking with police officers after laying flowers at the Bondi Pavillion at Bondi Beach, the scene of a shooting where 15 people were killed. — Australian Prime Minister's Office handout/AFP pic
World  / 5 h ago

Father, son behind Bondi Beach mass shooting linked to Islamic State ideology, says Albanese

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim told the Dewan Negara that the police report on the case will be submitted to the Attorney-General today for further action. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 3 h ago

‘No compromise’: Police assure full, transparent probe into Durian Tunggal triple shooting in Melaka, says Anwar

In this picture taken on June 16, 2020, media tycoon Jimmy Lai poses during an interview with AFP at the Next Digital offices in Hong Kong. US President Donald Trump said yesterday he wanted his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to free Jimmy Lai as he voiced sadness over the Hong Kong media mogul’s conviction. — AFP pic
World  / 5 h ago

‘I feel so badly’: Trump says he asked Xi to release Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai

Penang police chief Datuk Azizee Ismail said the 54-year-old man was deceived after receiving a call on February 21 at his home in George Town from an individual claiming to be a cybersecurity officer. — Picture by Firdaus Latif
Malaysia  / 3 h ago

Manager duped out of RM2.54m in elaborate phone scam in Penang

Undated photo from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate shows Donald Trump with a group of women; released by House Oversight Democrats on December 12, 2025. — Handout photo from House Oversight Democrats via AFP
World  / 7 h ago

Countdown begins for Trump and Co: Decades of Epstein sex-trafficking files set for release this Friday

In this photo illustration, a phone shows U.S. President Donald Trump's Truth Social post on the death of actor and director Rob Reiner on December 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Brentwood home on December 14. — Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP
World  / 4 h ago

Trump condemned over ‘perverse’ remarks linking filmmaker Reiner’s criticism to his murder, critics say he has ‘lost it’

Iraqi protesters including clerics and tribal leaders lift placards and flags during a rally in support of Iran against the US and Israel in Iraq's Shiite holy city of Najaf yesterday. — AFP pic
World / 17 Jun 2025

Trump confident Iran will sign nuclear deal, hints at action after G7 summit

US President Donald Trump spoke to reporters during the Group of Seven (G7) Summit at the Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge in Kananaskis, Alberta. — AFP pic
World / 17 Jun 2025

‘Evacuate Tehran immediately,’ Trump warns as Israel intensifies attacks

Israeli rescuers search through the rubble at the site of an overnight Iranian missile strike in Bat Yam on June 15. — AFP pic
World / 17 Jun 2025

Netanyahu hints at targeting Iran’s supreme leader, calling it a move to ‘end the conflict’

File picture of a plane taking off from Beijing’s Daxing International Airport at sunset on June 24, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 17 Jun 2025

Rising cancellations push holidaymakers to invest in high-end travel insurance

People pay their respects at a memorial outside the Minnesota State Capitol in honor of Democratic state assemblywoman Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, after a gunman killed them, in St. Paul. — AFP pic
World / 17 Jun 2025

Political violence escalates in US as Minnesota lawmaker, husband killed

Margaryta Husakova, 37, mother of eight children, who fled the Ukrainian town of Bilopilia, sits with her children near a refugee centre, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Sumy, Ukraine on June 12 — Reuters pic
World / 17 Jun 2025

Ukrainian refugees in UK trapped in limbo as visa extensions provide no long-term solution

Smoke billows for the second day from the Shahran oil depot, northwest of Tehran, June 16, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 16 Jun 2025

How much damage has Israel inflicted on Iran’s nuclear programme?

French police secure the area in front of the closed IAI and Rafael stands after the four main Israeli company stands at the Paris Airshow have been shut down by organisers during the 55th Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport near Paris June 16, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 16 Jun 2025

Israel furious as France shuts four weapons stands at Paris Airshow

A man holds a poster with a picture of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu during a rally to protest against the arrest of Imamoglu as part of a corruption investigation, in Istanbul April 9, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 16 Jun 2025

Istanbul mayor Imamoglu’s trial adjourned as prosecutors seek jail, political ban ahead of 2028 Erdogan election challenge

Air India said its Flight AI315 Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane bound for New Delhi returned to its origin departure port of Hong Kong as a precautionary measure on June 16, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 16 Jun 2025

New Delhi-bound Air India flight AI315 U-turns to Hong Kong after safety scare

In an online post, Iran’s judiciary said Esmaeil Fekri was a Mossad agent convicted of the capital offences of ‘corruption on Earth’ and ‘moharebeh’ (waging war against God), after going through the full process of criminal procedure. — Reuters pic
World / 16 Jun 2025

Iran hangs ‘Mossad agent’ as tension with Israel worsen

A picture of murdered Democratic state assemblyman Melissa Hortman (right) and her husband Mark is placed in a memorial on June 15, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 16 Jun 2025

US enforcers nab suspect two days after fatal shooting of Democratic politician and spouse

The death toll from Typhoon Wutip in Vietnam stands at seven as of June 16, 2025. ― AFP pic
World / 16 Jun 2025

Central Vietnam reels from floods as Typhoon Wutip kills seven, devastates 60,000ha farmland

Cambodia has so far ordered troops to stay on “full alert”, banned Thai dramas from TV and cinemas, closed a popular border checkpoint, and cut internet bandwidth from Thailand on June 13, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 16 Jun 2025

Cambodia calls migrants home, threatens Thai fruit and veg ban as border dispute grows

Smoke billows from a site in the city of Haifa on June 16, 2025, following a fresh barrage of Iranian missiles. — AFP pic
World / 16 Jun 2025

Tel Aviv, Tehran burn as Israel-Iran tension enters bloodiest phase; five dead in latest missile strikes

Alaa Mousa, 40, is accused of torturing detainees at military hospitals in Damascus and Homs on 18 occasions between 2011 and 2012, including setting fire to a teenage boy’s genitals. — Pexels pic
World / 16 Jun 2025

Doctor Alaa Mousa, accused of burning teen boy’s genitals and other tortures in Assad’s Syria, to know fate as German court wraps up trial