INDONESIA has seized a luxury yacht on the tourist island of Bali that is wanted by U.S. authorities as part of a probe into alleged multibillion-dollar corruption at Malaysian state investment fund 1MBD.
CAMBODIA Nineteen people, mostly foreigners, were injured and the driver of the bus they were on killed in a collision with another vehicle in eastern Cambodia.
INDIA Lining up for hours and visibly grief-stricken, thousands of mourning fans paid their respects yesterday to Sridevi, the iconic Bollywood actress who drowned accidentally in a Dubai hotel bathtub over the weekend.
ISRAEL An Israeli organization said yesterday it has minted a coin bearing President Donald Trump’s image to honor his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
LEBANON-S. ARABIA Lebanon’s prime minister yesterday made his first trip to Saudi Arabia since he briefly resigned from office during a visit to Riyadh late last year, part of a bizarre series of events that strained relations between the two countries.
ROMANIA’s besieged anti-corruption chief says the agency last year prosecuted a record number of cases, at a time when political attacks on the anti-corruption fight have escalated.
CYPRUS’ president says a resumption of talks to reunify the ethnically divided island nation is unlikely any time soon because of Turkey’s blockade of an offshore gas search and “unacceptable” demands by breakaway Turkish Cypriots.
NIGERIA The office of Nigeria’s president says police and civil defense forces are ordered to defend all schools in “liberated areas” of the northeast to avoid further attacks on schools by Boko Haram extremists.
SUDAN President Omar al-Bashir has reshuffled his military command, naming a new chief of staff, as well as leaders of the ground, naval and air forces.
BRAZIL Don’t carry a long umbrella. Don’t make any sudden movements. Don’t leave home without receipts for anything valuable you’re carrying. Those are three of the many suggestions offered in a popular video that was posted online amid a military takeover of Rio de Janeiro’s security forces.
US Infowars, a conspiracy website that suggested survivors of the Florida school shooting were coached on their pleas for gun control, said its video account was temporarily frozen by YouTube.
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