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THE family of jailed Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Wednesday described his five-year incarceration as an “outrage” and vowed an international campaign to free the former deputy prime minister. The “March

AT least 19 soldiers have been killed in the latest fighting in east Ukraine, a Kiev defence official said on Wednesday, including five in a rocket attack on regional capital Kramatorsk. “Nineteen

TAIWAN’S TransAsia Airways announced Wednesday that it would pay nearly half a million dollars in compensation to relatives of each of the victims of a dramatic plane crash earlier this month. The

SOUTH Korea’s second-largest carrier Asiana Airlines on Wednesday announced a $2.8 billion order for 25 planes from European maker Airbus to meet rising regional demand, especially from China. The airline said the

A REVIEW into the treatment of NHS whistleblowers has heard “shocking” stories about staff who raised concerns being ignored, bullied or intimidated. Review chairman Sir Robert Francis QC told the BBC a

US President Barack Obama has warned President Vladimir Putin that Russia will face greater costs if it continues its “aggressive actions” in Ukraine. Mr Obama urged his Russian counterpart to seize the

FOUR people were killed in mortar attacks on a bus station and a metals plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk early Wednesday as peace talks were due to be held

TWO men were charged in Australia Wednesday after police thwarted an “imminent” terror attack, seizing an Islamic State flag, a machete and an Arabic-language video detailing the alleged plot during a raid

THE United States has shut down its embassy in Yemen indefinitely and evacuated its staff and their families due to the worsening security conditions in the country, the State Department said Tuesday.

US President Barack Obama has warned President Vladimir Putin that Russia will face greater costs if it continues its “aggressive actions” in Ukraine. Mr Obama urged his Russian counterpart to seize the