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Immigration officers raided an entertainment centre in Jalan Klang Lama offering dance shows by foreign men during a special operation early Saturday. Picture for illustration only. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 18 h ago

Foreign male dancers nabbed as Immigration raids Jalan Klang Lama club charging patrons up to RM700

Luxury vehicles seized under JPJ’s Ops Luxury, which has netted 3,790 vehicles worth an estimated RM550 million since June 2025. — Picture via Facebook/jabatanpengangkutanjalanmalaysia

Malaysia / 12 h ago

JPJ seizes 3,790 luxury vehicles worth RM550m in nationwide crackdown since June 2025

Papar MP Datuk Armizan Mohd Ali said the InterContinental project is intended to generate wider economic spillovers for businesses and tourism operators in Papar. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 11 h ago

RM1b resort, 700 jobs: Papar’s first five-star hotel due in 2027

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (sixth, right) and Malaysian Makkal Sakti Party president Datuk Seri RS Thanenthiran (fifth, right) pose with delegates at the party’s 18th annual general assembly in Kuala Lumpur. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 14 h ago

BN chairman Zahid says coalition will end ties with Pakatan once Parliament dissolves

A woman was left heartbroken after finding her fiancé lying lifeless in his home, having failed to reach him since last night. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 13 h ago

Calls unanswered, woman forces entry and finds fiancé dead in Melaka home

Melaka Pakatan Harapan chairman Adly Zahari expects the coalition presidential council will be able to decide on the seats for the upcoming state election in the first week of October 2026. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 19 h ago

Melaka Pakatan wraps up seat talks, awaits final approval from presidential council

MACC Chief Commissioner Datuk Seri Abd Halim Aman said the probe will cover a range of matters, including a 50MW solar project in Gambang, Pahang. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 14 h ago

UiTM Holdings under MACC spotlight as RM42m solar project payment questioned

Sarawak Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg says the state’s seat increase still needs Parliament’s nod before the Election Commission can act. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

Malaysia / 19 h ago

‘No contradiction’: Abang Johari explains why EC says no Sarawak seat proposal yet

Amanah deputy president Datuk Seri Mujahid Yusof Rawa wants the party’s candidates out early as he warns it could be left with one seat in GE16. — Picture from Facebook/Dr Mujahid Yusof Rawa

Malaysia / 13 h ago

Amanah sets sights on 18 seats for GE16, but concedes it could lose all but one

Sabah and Sarawak politicians are calling for clarity on how the one-third representation formula will be applied to the two Bornean states before additional parliamentary seats are created. — Bernama file pic

Malaysia / 16 h ago

One-third formula first, more seats later, Sabah and Sarawak politicians tell Putrajaya

Kuching South mayor Wee Hong Seng says detractors can criticise his policies if they want but should refrain from smear tactics as that is what mature politics is all about. — The Borneo Post pic

Malaysia / 19 h ago

Kuching South mayor lodges police report over ‘malicious’ remarks against him, family

A section of the Pan Borneo Highway in Sabah. Sabah PKR said comparisons between Penang and Sabah’s transport projects should take into account their different scale and requirements, adding that major infrastructure projects worth billions are also being implemented in Sabah, contrary to what the state PAS representative claimed on September 27, 2026. — Bernama file pic

Malaysia / 13 h ago

Do not compare Penang’s mega projects with one year of Sabah road funding, state PKR tells PAS rival

IPF president Datuk T. Loganathan said the party has applied to become a Barisan Nasional component party, beginning with Penang. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon

Malaysia / 10 h ago

All Malaysian Indian Progressive Front seeks BN membership — and a shot at contesting Penang seats

The police will summon former Negeri Sembilan state executive council members starting tomorrow to record their statements, to assist the investigation into the administrative and royal institution crisis in the state, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Mohd Khalid Ismail said. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

Malaysia / 16 h ago

Police to record statements from former exco members amid Negeri Sembilan royal turmoil

Japan’s Yuki Kurihara, 11, celebrates after winning gold in Puyo Puyo Champions at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games September 26, 2026. — AFP pic

Sports / 9 h ago

An 11-year-old just won Asian Games gold. How young is too young?

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In Iraqi Kurdistan, a new war revives old memories of destruction

Iranian truck drivers wait to cross back into Iran in the Penjwen district, near the border with Iran in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region September 21, 2026. — AFP pic

PENJWEN (Iraq), Sept 27 — Kurdistan resident Ahmed Faraj was just a child when his city became a battlefield in the Iran-Iraq conflict. Decades later, with the Middle East at war, he fears his home might be drawn in again.For months, drones and missiles have buzzed over his lush green...

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Armed police are posted at an entrance to RAF Fairford base in Fairford, south-west England on September 27, 2026, as UK counter-terrorism police investigate an incident near the base in the village of Whelford. British police today declared a major incident and evacuated villagers living near a base used by the US air force after arresting several men on suspicion of explosives offences. — AFP pic

10 h ago

Bomb squad examines vehicles as UK counter‑terror police probe incident near RAF Fairford

Vessels transit the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas in southern Iran August 10, 2026. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said today that they seized an American submarine drone in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran has blockaded in the months-long Middle East war. — AFP pic

11 h ago

Iran Guards claim capture of US underwater drone in Strait of Hormuz

Protesters block the Garvaghy Road in Portadown, Northern Ireland in the morning of September 27, 2026, to prevent a parade of marchers from the Orange Order using the route through the mainly nationalist area of the town. A parade by Northern Ireland’s pro-British Protestant Orange Order was set to pass through a mainly Catholic and nationalist area today for the first time since 1997, after an overnight court ruling cleared it to proceed. The confrontation is known as the Drumcree dispute after the church attended by the marchers. — AFP pic

12 h ago

UK PM urges ‘calm on all sides’ as thousands try to block flashpoint Northern Ireland parade

Heavy rain triggered floods and landslides in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing at least 56 people over the past three days. — AFP pic

13 h ago

Floods and landslides kill 56 in India and 12 in Nepal after days of ‘exceptionally heavy rain’

Residents stand behind police tape near the scene where gunmen armed with assault rifles stormed a bar in Johannesburg on September 27, 2026. — AFP pic

13 h ago

Gunmen kill at least 27 people in separate South African weekend mass shootings

Pope Leo XIV meets with the bishops of France's Bishops Conference in the Sainte-Bernadette Chamber at the Church of Sainte-Bernadette, within the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, southwestern France, on September 27, 2026 on the third day of his visit to France. — AFP pic

14 h ago

Pope to meet clerical sex abuse victims during landmark France trip

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham (left), Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey (centre) and Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram visit the new Mersey Ferry ahead of the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, September 26, 2026. — AFP pic

16 h ago

Britain’s Labour Party gathers for first conference under PM Burnham as economic pressure mounts

People hail a public bus on a flooded road in Ramkhamhaeng district in Bangkok on September 27, 2026. — AFP ic

16 h ago

Bangkok flooding shows signs of easing, but key canals still at critical levels

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (left) looks on during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 23, 2026. — AFP pic

17 h ago

Iran refuses to budge on Hormuz demands after US rejects seven-day deal

Children wave a Saudi flag from the sunroof of a vehicle during the 96th Saudi National day celebrations in Riyadh on September 23, 2026. — AFP pic

17 h ago

Riyadh schools moved online for a week, no reason given amid Houthi attacks

Waves pound the coast during a Nor’easter in Scituate, Massachusetts, September 26, 2026. — AFP pic

18 h ago

One dead, 60,000 without power as powerful storm batters US Northeast

Rescue officials carry a body bag with the remains of a victim recovered from the Virgo Transport 8 ship accident, upon arrival by helicopter at Syamsudin Noor Airport in Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan, on September 21, 2026. — AFP pic

20 h ago

Death toll from Indonesia ferry sinking jumps to 64

Demonstrators protest against evictions and the housing crisis in Madrid on September 26, 2026. — AFP pic

21 h ago

Thousands march in Madrid after 87-year-old woman evicted from lifelong home

US President Donald Trump waves as he walks to board Marine One as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 26, 2026. — AFP pic

21 h ago

No deal: Trump rejects Iran truce proposal to reopen Hormuz

Fiennes, the first person to cross the Earth pole to pole in the early 1980s, was last seen publicly nearly two years ago, months after opening up about a Parkinson’s diagnosis he received years earlier. — AFP pic

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