SINGAPORE: Oil rose to US$60 a barrel for the first time in almost three months after US President Donald Trump signed off on a partial trade deal with China, giving a boost to the fragile outlook for global oil demand. Futures climbed 1.4% in New York, reaching $60 for the first time since Sept 17,
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday appointed a woman to head a major Australian spy agency for the first time. Rachel Noble will become next director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), which intercepts electronic communications from foreign countries. “Her appointment to this leadership role is a significant step forward for women
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders were at odds over committing to climate neutrality by 2050 after five hours of talks in Brussels, diplomatic sources said. The sources said three key aspects were all up in the air as leaders continued their discussion into dinner: details of the scale and scope of financing earmarked for
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A Brussels court ordered the Belgian government on Thursday to help bring to Belgium 10 children who were born in Syria to Islamic State fighters of Belgian nationality. The children, aged between seven months and seven years, must be brought to Belgium within six weeks, the court said. They are now at
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia assures that they will give their full support to ensure the Parti Warisan Sabah candidate wins the soon-to-be-called Kimanis parliamentary by-election. Sabah Bersatu deputy chairman Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun said Thursday (Dec 12) that the party had agreed for a Warisan candidate to contest the Kimanis parliamentary seat,
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is now open to having a shorter impeachment trial in the Senate, two sources familiar with the situation said on Wednesday, after he initially proclaimed he wanted a full-blown, potentially lengthy hearing. Trump has said publicly that a trial in the Republican-led Senate would give him an opportunity
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government said on Wednesday it was unaware that Russia had made an extradition request for a Georgian man murdered in Berlin in August, after Russian President Vladimir Putin complained multiple requests had gone unheeded. In an escalation in already tense relations, Germany last week expelled two employees at the Russian
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia said on Wednesday it expects to transfer up to 10 injured people from New Zealand within next 24 hours if they are stable enough to travel. New Zealand is treating 30 people for burns at several hospitals around the country after a volcano erupted on Monday, killing six people. New Zealand
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Venite Bernard’s feet are bloodied and torn because, she said, she had no time to grab her sandals when she fled her shack with her youngest children as gangsters roamed the Haitian capital’s most notorious slum, shooting people in their homes. Now the 47-year-old Bernard and her family are camped in the
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court jailed 11 people on Tuesday for plotting a suicide bombing on the St Petersburg metro that killed 15 people and injured scores during a visit by President Vladimir Putin to his home city in 2017. One man, a Russian national from Kyrgyzstan, was given a life sentence after being
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A website managed by the New Zealand Red Cross on Tuesday listed 17 Australians as still missing in the White Island volcanic eruption, including a family of four from the northern suburbs of Sydney. The Langford family, including parents Anthony Langford, 51, and Kristine Langford, and teenage children Jesse, 19, and Winona,
SINGAPORE (ANN): Singaporeans are among the most well-fed populations in the world, according to a recent study. The Republic emerged tops for the second year running in the Global Food Security Index, which assesses if people have access to affordable, quality food to meet their nutritional needs. Developed by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and
(Reuters) – Finland’s Sanna Marin is about to become the world’s youngest serving prime minister at the age of 34. Here are some other current world leaders still in their thirties: – Oleksiy Honcharuk, 35, Ukrainian prime minister. A political novice and protege of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Honcharuk ran for parliament in 2014 but failed
KAMPAR: A mother and her five-year-old daughter were killed in a six-vehicle pile-up at km294, on the northbound lane of the North-South Expressway, near here. Kampar OCPD Supt Hasron Nazri Hashim said teacher Ummu Maisarah Kamaludin, 33, from Petaling Jaya, died on the spot in the 7.10am incident on Monday (Dec 9). Her daughter, Syaima
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese President Michel Aoun postponed consultations with lawmakers to designate a new prime minister by one week until Dec. 16, the presidency said on Sunday. The consultations, which had been scheduled for Monday, were postponed after Samir Khatib withdrew his candidacy for the position of prime minister. (Reporting by Laila Bassam; Writing
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan has 5,000 troops operating in Yemen, down from a peak of 15,000, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Sunday, adding that he believed no military solution was possible. Briefing journalists on his return from Washington, Hamdok said there had been no discussions during his visit about withdrawing the troops. “Regarding Yemen
PYONGYANG: North Korea said it conducted a “very important test” at its long-range projectile launch site as the country declared denuclearisation is off the negotiating table with the US. The outcome was “successful” and will play a key part in changing North Korea’s strategic position in the near future, the state-run Korean Central News Agency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. and Mexican negotiators are “very close” to finalising the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a Washington-based source familiar with the talks said on Saturday, after a top Mexico official said the two sides had made progress on the trade deal. The person added that U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still needed to agree
KUALA LUMPUR: Muafakat Nasional alone does not guarantee that Umno will win in the 15th general election, says Umno deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan. He said the party must be strong on its own and not depend merely on external cooperation and support to win over the government. “It is important for us to
SHAH ALAM (Bernama): Federal Territories Minister Khalid Abdul Samad polled the highest votes late Friday (Dec 6) in the election to choose 27 committee members for Parti Amanah Negara’s National Leadership Committee 2019/2020. The election process, involving 821 delegates, saw Khalid receiving 786 votes followed by Deputy Human Resource Minister Datuk Mahfuz Omar (780), Agriculture
MARTIGNY, Switzerland (Reuters) – Christoph Blocher’s vast collection of works by Switzerland’s master painters is a fitting accompaniment to the 79-year-old billionaire’s decades at the vanguard of right-wing Swiss politics. A 127-piece sample from his private trove, on display at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda in Martigny from December until June, celebrates Switzerland’s rural roots and
MADRID (Reuters) – Teenage activist Greta Thunberg pulled in on the overnight train to Madrid on Friday, heading to a gathering of world leaders she says are failing to combat climate change. In just over a year, Thunberg has inspired younger protesters in a global movement demanding action to slow the atmospheric warming that climate
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Union leaders and Colombian government representatives met on Thursday for the second time this week but failed to reach an agreement to end protests against President Ivan Duque’s economic and social policies. The meeting took place just one day after a national strike organised by unions, students and advocacy groups drew thousands
PUTRAJAYA: Chief Justice Tan Sri Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat has expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad for supporting judicial freedom. She said the Prime Minister had given the nod for promotion of judges, as proposed by the Judicial Appointment Commission (JAC). “In accepting the JAC’s proposal, the Prime Minister has supported and
BEIJING (Xinhua): China will take multi-pronged measures to ensure that employment remains stable. The government will scale up support for flexible employment, boost job opportunities for people with disabilities, and make sure migrant workers are paid on time. A host of steps was decided upon at the State Council’s executive meeting on Wednesday (Dec 4)
WATFORD, England (Reuters) – It was shaping up for a repeat of NATO’s disastrous summit of July 2018, when U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed a tirade against European allies and threatened to pull America out of the transatlantic military alliance forged after World War Two. French President Emmanuel Macron had stunned other leaders in the
BEIJING (AP): The authorities in eastern China say nine people were killed in the collapse of a waste water tank in a dyeing and printing mill. The collapse of the 15m tank toppled shelves in the workshop in the city of Haining in Zhejiang province, a centre of China’s vast petrochemicals industry. The local government
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday debated a bill that would require the Trump administration to toughen its response to China’s crackdown on its Muslim minority, demanding sanctions on senior Chinese officials and export bans. The Uighur Act of 2019 is a stronger version of a bill that angered Beijing when
WATFORD, England (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron accused Turkey of working with Islamic State proxies and said Ankara needed to clarify those ambiguities during meetings this week. “The common enemy today is the terrorist groups. I’m sorry to say, we don’t have the same definition of terrorism around the table,” Macron told reporters on
KUALA LUMPUR: His Majesty Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah has dedicated to his late father Almarhum Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta’in Billah the prestigious 2019 Diamond of Asia award. The award was bestowed to him by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), in recognition of His Majesty’s contributions spanning
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