(Reuters) – English Football League (EFL) representatives agreed in meetings that FA Cup replays should be scrapped from next season, the English FA said on Friday in the face of criticism from several lower-league clubs for ditching the revenue-generating matches. English soccer’s governing body announced the move on Thursday as …

KYIV/DNIPRO, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine shot down a Russian strategic bomber 300 km (185 miles) from its border on Friday after the warplane took part in an airstrike that killed at least eight people, including two children, in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, Kyiv said. Missiles rained down on the city of …

RAWANG: The Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) is closely monitoring reports on the Middle East conflict for a possible escalation in the region. Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz said so far, shipments through the Red Sea shipping route were “still quite calm at the moment.” …

PUTRAJAYA: A former police station chief convicted of accepting a bribe was spared a jail sentence today after the Court of Appeal set aside the two-month jail term imposed on him and substituted it with a fine of RM10,000. A three-man bench comprising Court of Appeal judges Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim, …

QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa looks set to win a referendum on Sunday that asks voters to support new security measures to fight rising violence, although recent power cuts could pose a threat to the ‘yes’ vote. Cocaine-smuggling gangs have expanded into every corner of Latin America over …

KUALA LUMPUR: CIMB Thai Bank PCL, a 94.83%-owned unit of CIMB Group Holdings Bhd recorded a consolidated net profit of 626.1 million baht in the first quarter of 2024 (1Q24), a year-on-year (YoY) decline of 24.6% or 204 million baht. In a statement, the bank said its profit before tax …

SAN FRANCISCO: Meta on Thursday introduced an improved AI assistant built on new versions of its open source Llama large language model for powering the technology. Meta AI is smarter and faster due to advances in publicly available Llama 3, the tech titan said in a blog post. “The bottom …

PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has set May 3 to deliver its verdict on an appeal brought by a 37-year-old woman seeking to overturn a Court of Appeal decision to reinstate her as a Muslim. Lawyer A. Surendra Ananth, representing the woman, told BK when contacted that he received a letter …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – At Donald Trump’s criminal trial, there is no dispute about a central underlying fact: the month before the 2016 presidential election, his personal lawyer and fixer paid a porn star for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump. Legal experts say the outcome of …

KOTA KINABALU: Pacts or agreements between political parties are only useful if they enable the people’s needs and aspirations to be addressed, says a Parti Warisan leader. Party vice president Terrence Siambun said the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) and Sabah STAR on Thursday (April 18) …