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Barisan Nasional chairman Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (centre) attends the launch of Melaka's election machinery for the 16th Melaka State Election. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 6 h ago

‘We cannot be pushed around’: MCA walks out of Melaka event, says Barisan ignored its say on seats

Low Kian Leong, 28, Business Development Manager at Low Yat Group and one of the fourth-generation custodians of the Low family. — Picture by Choo Choy May

Life / 8 h ago

More than just a hotel: Inside the Low family’s mission to preserve The Federal Kuala Lumpur

A 57-year-old foreign woman was found drowned while undergoing aquatic therapy in a condominium swimming pool in Tanjung Bungah yesterday. — Picture by Choo Choy May

Malaysia / 5 h ago

Husband returns from phone call to find wife submerged in Penang condo pool

Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, has expressed disappointment over the mismanagement of Tabung Haji. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 5 h ago

Selangor Sultan rebukes Tabung Haji mismanagement, says politicians must serve rakyat

A family looks out of a cabin on the Singapore Flyer in Singapore on October 15, 2026, as haze caused by forest fires in Indonesia shrouds the country. — AFP pic

Singapore / 5 h ago

Singapore shrugs off Indonesian gas cuts, urges importers to take legal recourse

Kimchi Lai is the first woman to win the Giffard West Cup, an international bartending and mixology competition created by Maison Giffard in 1997. — Picture by Choo Choy May

Eat-drink / 5 h ago

Hidden blessings: Kimchi Lai lost her job to AI, embraced full-time bartending and is now the first woman to win France’s Giffard West Cup

A demonstrator wearing a gas mask holds a protest placard in Jakarta on October 22, 2026. — AFP pic

Singapore / 5 h ago

Indonesia cuts natural gas exports to Singapore amid regional haze dispute

A screengrab from a video shared by Huan Cheng Guan on Facebook shows flash flooding in Penang this morning.

Malaysia / 4 h ago

Overnight downpour floods Penang neighbourhoods, leaving dozens of homes underwater

The Regent of Terengganu, Tengku Muhammad Ismail Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin (seated, third from left), joins in the recitation of prayers following the burial of Datuk Seri Dr Tengku Baderul Zaman—son of the late Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah—at the Royal Mausoleum of the Al-Muktafi Billah Shah Mosque in Ladang today.
According to a statement issued by the Comptroller of the Royal Household, Datuk Mohd Sophian Abu Bakar, the younger brother of the Sultan of Terengganu, Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, passed away at 1.20am today at Gleneagles Hospital, Kuala Lumpur. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 19 h ago

Terengganu Sultan’s younger brother laid to rest

A general view of around the Kuala Lumpur city center shrouded by haze. — Picture by Hari Anggara

Malaysia / 3 h ago

Even as skies begin to clear, eateries say the haze has already hurt business

The Sultan of Selangor hopes his legacy will be one of progress, strong institutions and social harmony, with the interests of the people remaining at the heart of his reign. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 5 h ago

After 25 years on the throne, Selangor Sultan says people remain his priority

Smoke billows from a site targeted during battles between Saudi-backed Yemeni government fighters and Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis at the Jabal Han front, west of the city of Taiz on October 21, 2026. — AFP pic

World / 6 h ago

Houthis strike Saudi airports, energy sites and Aden after blaming Riyadh for deadly attacks

The government is taking into account national security in considering a restriction on the use of the Waze navigation application among civil servants, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 5 h ago

Anwar explains Waze review, says Malaysia cannot ignore security risks

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Sabah and Sarawak) Datuk Mustapha Sakmud said the people of Sabah and Sarawak remain firmly committed to upholding Malaysia’s sovereignty and reject any provocation involving the disrespectful display of the Jalur Gemilang by irresponsible parties overseas. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 1 h ago

Upside-down Jalur Gemilang in Melbourne: Sabah, Sarawak firmly behind Malaysia’s sovereignty, says Mustapha Sakmud

Perak Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) assistant operations director Sabarodzi Nor Ahmad said the department received an emergency call regarding the incident involving two victims, aged 42 and 50, at 2.55 pm. — Picture via Facebook

Malaysia / 19 h ago

Two men found dead by riverbank after swimming in Sungai Tonggang

World

5 h ago

France arrests nearly 1,000 as cost-of-living protests turn violent across country

Protesters take part in a demonstration calling for increased purchasing power, the protection of public services, and fiscal and social justice in Paris on October 24, 2026. — AFP pic

PARIS, Oct 25 — Clashes broke out Saturday in Paris and other French cities amid demonstrations held a week after others that degenerated into street violence and prompted a robust security backlash as President Emmanuel Macron seeks to restore order. Police arrested nearly 1,000 people as officers were confronted...

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Former US president Barack Obama (centre), Democratic candidate for US Senate in Michigan Abdul El-Sayed (left), and Democratic candidate for Michigan governor Jocelyn Benson (right) raise joined hands as they campaign together with other Michigan Democrats at a rally in Detroit, Michigan on October 24, 2026. — AFP pic

6 h ago

On campaign trail, Obama says Trump’s White House ‘looks like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory’

Israeli bulldozers demolish a Palestinian building in Area C of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on October 23, 2026. — AFP pic

18 h ago

Israeli forces displace hundreds of Hebron families after deadly attack on soldiers

Protesters march along Avenue Jean Zay in Orleans, central France October 24, 2026. — AFP pic

18 h ago

From tear gas to boarded-up shops, France prepares for another volatile weekend

Israeli army soldiers walk towards the bodies of two armed Palestinian men after a fire exchange at the northern checkpoint of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on October 23, 2026. — AFP pic

19 h ago

On his way to cover an olive harvest, AFP photographer ends up capturing a deadly attack

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un addresses the third meeting of Korean People’s Army company leaders at the Pyongyang Gymnasium in Pyongyang — AFP pic/KCNA via KNS

19 h ago

Kim Jong-un makes surprise China border trip, fuelling summit speculation once again

Mecca was among four places to get danger warnings from the Saudi government on October 24, 2026, but no reasons were given and the alert was withdrawn minutes later. — Pexels pic

22 h ago

Saudi civil defence sounds the alarm for Mecca, Jeddah, Taif and Yanbu, only to pull them minutes later

A bloodstain is seen on the ground at the entrance of a Greek Orthodox church in the village of Hammoud in Jordan’s Karak governorate on October 23, 2026, after gunmen killed eight people during a funeral procession. — AFP pic

22 h ago

Another victim dies after Jordan church shooting, 26 still in hospital

A volunteer from the Central Kalimantan Forest and Land Fire Smoke Response Coalition provides mobile oxygen relief to a firefighter battling fires in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, on October 22, 2026. — AFP pic

23 h ago

Indonesia still fighting over 22,500-ha fires with central Kalimantan worst hit

French High Commissioner for Children Sarah El Haïry calls for a Malaysia-France alliance on online safety at the World Summit on Investing in Children’s Wellbeing in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on October 24, 2026. — AFP pic

23 h ago

Malaysia and France should team up to protect kids online, says French official

SF-260 aircraft of the Philippine Air Force land on the runway at Fernando Air Base in Batangas province, the Philippines. Two planes of the same model collided mid-air at the base on October 23, 2026, killing four pilots. — AFP file pic

22 h ago

Two Philippine air force trainers collide mid-air near Manila, four pilots dead

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (centre) waves to supporters at a Likud Party campaign meet-and-greet in Netanya on October 22, 2026, days before its October 27 national election and before he vowed a massive military response to the killing of two Israeli soldiers near Hebron. — AFP pic

23 h ago

Netanyahu promises Palestinian Authority a ‘big surprise’ after soldiers killed near Hebron

US Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton attends a White House roundtable on cybercrime in Washington, DC, on October 21, 2026, three days before his memo warning that Iran has ‘substantially increased’ efforts to target Americans. — Getty Images pic via AFP

1d ago

US spy chief says Iran is stepping up plots targeting Americans, Trump hints at ‘another little Epic Fury’

Demonstrators gather in heavy haze outside the Central Kalimantan governor’s office in Palangkaraya, Indonesia on October 23, 2026, demanding authorities to declare a national emergency to free up more aid. — AFP pic

1d ago

‘The officials are morons’: Haze that reached Malaysia now has Indonesian students protesting in central Kalimantan

A student (left) learns a Chinese dance at the Confucius Institute. The US says it is shutting down such centres as it deems them ‘propaganda tools of the Chinese Communist Party’. — Xinhua pic via AFP

1d ago

Pentagon puts China-funded Confucius Institutes on US security threat list

Saudi Arabia says it shot down a Houthi missile aimed at Riyadh after explosions rock its capital on October 24, 2026. — AFP file pic

1d ago

Riyadh wakes to blasts as Houthis keep up missile strikes on Saudi Arabia

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