PARIS (Reuters) – When Marie Patouillet was forced to give up running due to a foot malformation in her late 20s, she turned to para-cycling as a new means to perform. The 35-year-old Frenchwoman brought back two bronze medals from the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games on the track and she …

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol plans to underline “illicit, dangerous” military dealings between North Korea and Russia at the United Nations on Wednesday, his aides said, following the two countries’ rare summit last week. Yoon was set to deliver a speech to the annual U.N. General …

THE Thai baht, stocks and bonds slid to multi-month lows under foreign selling pressure on Wednesday, with investors worried that high oil prices and government spending plans would widen the Southeast-Asian nation’s current account deficit. The baht fell 0.4%, while Thai shares slumped 0.9%, their lowest level since Aug. 16. …

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s main opposition Congress party backed on Wednesday the government’s rejection of Canada’s suspicions that New Delhi’s agents had links to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader, and urged a stand against threats to the country’s sovereignty. India quickly dismissed Canada’s assertion as absurd in …

Microsoft Corp mistakenly provided confidential information about its video game operations to a federal court website. The documents revealed Sept 18 were exhibits in the FTC’s antitrust suit to stop Microsoft from completing its US$69bil (RM323.78bil) takeover of game giant Activision Blizzard Inc. They contain proprietary information about Microsoft’s plans …

(Reuters) – The United Nations has recorded over 1,600 incidents of rights violations against people detained by the Taliban authorities, nearly half of them acts of torture and ill-treatment mostly by police and intelligence agents, a report released on Wednesday showed. The U.N. Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) said 18 people …

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here was told Wednesday (Sept 20) that US$681mil or RM1.89bil in funds originating from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) entered into Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s personal account via eight transactions in 2013. Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) analyst Adam Ariff Mohd Roslan, 29, said the funds were …

JOHOR BARU: For the past two years, a 28-year-old woman was extorted of more than S$20,000 (RM68,760), forced to become a loan shark’s runner and even had her house set on fire twice – all because she befriended a man online. Identified only as Wong, the clerk who works in …

SINGAPORE: Stocks struggled for headway on Wednesday while U.S. yields stood at or near decade highs along the curve as surging oil prices stoked inflation and set the scene for the Federal Reserve to project interest rates staying higher for longer. Brent crude futures fell 1% in the Asia session …

KUALA LUMPUR: The 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP) Mid-Term Review (MTR) which outlines policies and initiatives to strengthen the country’s development agenda and the wellbeing of the people towards achieving the objectives of Madani Economy, was tabled at the special Dewan Negara sitting on Wednesday (Sept 20). Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli …