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Supporters of former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak gather outside the court compound during proceedings related to his 1MDB trial. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

Malaysia / 17 h ago

1MDB verdict: High Court finds Najib guilty on all 25 charges

Supporters of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak outside the Federal Court in Putrajaya, December 26, 2025. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

Malaysia / 19 h ago

Judge: Najib no ‘country bumpkin’, attempts to paint him as ignorant doomed to fail

Lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah is pictured at the Federal Court during proceedings related to the 1MDB trial. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

Malaysia / 18 h ago

‘Pure fantasy’ to suggest 1MDB’s officers colluded with Jho Low against Najib, High Court says

Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak at the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex July 7, 2025. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin

Malaysia / 12 h ago

Ex-PM Najib gets concurrent 15-year jail terms, RM11.38b fine over 1MDB scandal

The court heard the money was wrongly credited by a university and was not returned despite repeated attempts to recover it. — TODAY file pic

Singapore / 16 h ago

Singapore man jailed after refusing to return RM28,500 wrongly transferred to his account

Baey Yam Keng (left) with Gabriella, who found his wallet, and Maxence of the French national police, who helped return it during the Singapore minister’s trip to France, an act of kindness he shared in a Christmas Facebook post. — Picture via Facebook/Baey Yam Keng

Singapore / 11 h ago

‘My lucky day’: Singapore minister thanks strangers who returned his lost wallet in France

Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak seen at the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex on Nov 25, 2025. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

Malaysia / 14 h ago

Prosecutors seek maximum 20-year term, RM11.3b fine for Najib in 1MDB case conviction

Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is seen here at the Kuala Lumpur court complex on November 25, 2025. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

Malaysia / 19 h ago

High Court throws out Najib’s ‘Saudi donation’ claim in 1MDB trial, finds defence untenable

MACC chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki (pictured) said Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 1MDB conviction reflected years of complex investigations and international cooperation since 2015. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

Malaysia / 16 h ago

Azam Baki: Najib guilty verdict in RM2.2b 1MDB case shows strength of MACC probe, global cooperation

SEA Games gold medallist Nur Aisyah Mohamad Zubir shows her medal after a breakthrough performance in Thailand. — Picture via Facebook/Olympic Council of Malaysia

Sports / 16 h ago

Nur Aisyah was told she was too small, now she’s SEA Games cycling gold

Police display equipment seized in the raids during a press conference in Semenyih, December 26, 2025. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 19 h ago

Police take down Malaysia’s largest international drug syndicate, seize RM1.04b in narcotics

Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s statement read out by his lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

Malaysia / 11 h ago

After 1MDB conviction, Najib urges Malaysians to stay calm, vows to continue legal fight

Negeri Sembilan police chief Datuk Alzafny Ahmad identified the suspect as 62-year-old Yeoh Hock Sun from Kelantan, saying preliminary investigations indicate he acted alone. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 18 h ago

Police hunt ‘highly wanted, dangerous’ suspect linked to Nilai apartment blast

A passenger appears to try and calm the seemingly agitated woman, dressed in blue (left). The woman is pictured sitting in one of the seating areas in the airport. Her belongings are pictured around her. — Screengrab from social media

Malaysia / 15 h ago

Police yet to trace family of woman who lived a year at KLIA Terminal 1

Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet shake hands and hold up a document, during the signing of a ceasefire deal between Cambodia and Thailand on the sidelines of the 47th Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) Summit in Kuala Lumpur October 26, 2025. — Reuters pic

World / 13 h ago

‘Let this be the final signing’: Thailand pushes for truce as border fighting flares

World

6 m ago

Christmas spirit, Trump‑style: Bombs not baubles, barbs not blessings

Christmas under Donald Trump brought air strikes abroad and political threats at home. — Reuters pic

WASHINGTON, Dec 27 — Christmas under Donald Trump brought air strikes abroad and political threats at home, as the US president used the holiday to project a vision of power rooted less in peace than grievance, even as aides leaned into their Christian faith.On Tuesday and Wednesday, the president flooded...

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More than 40 million Americans were under winter storm warnings or weather advisories, plus another 30 million under flood or storm advisories in California. — AFP pic

World / 28 m ago

Holiday travel nightmare: Thousands stranded as New York faces heaviest snow in four years

French police on Friday arrested a man suspected of stabbing three women in the Paris metro as the capital’s end-of-year festivities were in full swing. — AFP pic

World / 51 m ago

Festive Paris shaken by metro stabbing spree — three women wounded, suspect caught within hours

Rohingya refugees carry relief materials after collecting them from a distribution point at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Ukhia December 17, 2025. — AFP pic

World / 3 h ago

‘How can you call this an election?’ Rohingya refugees shut out as Myanmar goes to the polls

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Ryu Kum-ji who lost both parents in the Jeju Air plane crash, stages a solo protest near the Presidential Office in Seoul December 25, 2025. — Reuters pic

13 h ago

A year after Jeju Air disaster, victims’ families say truth remains out of reach

A worker points to the damage of the containment vessel following a drone attack on February 14, 2025, on the New Safe Confinement (NSC) which contains radiation from the remains of reactor 4 of the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Chernobyl, on December 22, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. — AFP pic

13 h ago

Chernobyl’s safety shield was meant to last a century — war has changed that

Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet shake hands and hold up a document, during the signing of a ceasefire deal between Cambodia and Thailand on the sidelines of the 47th Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) Summit in Kuala Lumpur October 26, 2025. — Reuters pic

13 h ago

‘Let this be the final signing’: Thailand pushes for truce as border fighting flares

This handout photograph released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on December 26, 2025, shows the aftermath of the explosion inside Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque in the Wadi al-Dahab neighbourhood of Homs. — AFP pic

14 h ago

Explosion rips through mosque in Alawite area of Syria’s Homs, at least six killed

The Ukrainian president said talks with Trump could come ‘in the near future’ as a 20-point peace plan is sent to Moscow. — AFP pic

14 h ago

‘A lot can be decided’: Zelensky says Trump meeting is imminent as war talks intensify

Members of Israeli forces take part in an Israeli raid in Qalandya, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, December 23, 2025. — Reuters pic

14 h ago

Israeli reservist rams vehicle into Palestinian man praying in West Bank

A missile is launched from a military vessel at an unidentified location, in this screen grab obtained from a handout video released by the Department of War on December 25, 2025. — US Department of War Via X/Handout via Reuters

15 h ago

Nigeria signals more strikes likely in ‘joint’ US operations

Children look on from a shelter in the Nuseirat camp for displaced Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip on December 22, 2025. — AFP pic

15 h ago

Fuel shortage forces Gaza hospital to suspend most services

A police officer adjusts a cordon tape at a rubber factory run by Yokohama Rubber Co in Mishima, Shizuoka prefecture, December 26, 2025. — AFP pic

16 h ago

Fifteen injured in stabbing, liquid spray attack at factory in central Japan

Individuals on the list, including the founder of defence firm Anduril Industries and nine senior executives from the sanctioned firms, are also banned from entering China. — Reuters pic

16 h ago

China hits US defence firms with sanctions over arms sales to Taiwan

People look at a damaged bridge after Thailand carried out air strikes in an area between Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey and Siem Reap provinces on December 20, 2025. Cambodia accused Thailand today of intensifying its bombardment of disputed border areas, even as officials from the two countries attend a multi-day meeting aimed at negotiating an end to deadly clashes. — AFP pic

17 h ago

Cambodia alleges Thai F‑16 bombardment during ongoing border negotiations

A man makes his way in the heavy snow in Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan in this photo taken by Kyodo on December 20, 2022. Japan’s weather agency todayday warned of powerful winds, blizzards and high waves in western, eastern and north-eastern Japan, with the possibility of lightning, tornadoes, avalanches and widespread traffic disruption, Kyodo News Agency reported.— Reuters pic

18 h ago

Japan braces for weekend blizzards, powerful winds and heavy snowfall up to 80cm

Police officers keep watch during the anti-immigration 'Put Australia First' rally at Prince Alfred Park in Sydney on December 21, 2025, one week after the Bondi Beach mass shooting. — AFP pic

20 h ago

Australian police ban Sydney public gatherings for two weeks after Bondi Beach attack

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review his arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors in Seoul, South Korea, in this file picture dated July 9, 2025. — Reuters pic

21 h ago

South Korea prosecutors seek 10‑year jail term for ex‑president Yoon over martial law case

Heavy machinery tears down a section of the East Wing of the White House as construction begins on President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, in Washington, DC October 20, 2025. — AFP pic

21 h ago

Trump’s US$400m East Wing ballroom plan faces lawsuit, White House to unveil plans in January

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