NAIROBI (Reuters) – Somalia will expel thousands of Ethiopian troops stationed in the country to help with security by the end of the year unless Addis Ababa scraps a disputed port deal with the breakaway region of Somaliland, a senior Somali official said on Monday. Security experts and foreign diplomats …

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s Election Commission said on Monday a record-breaking 642 million voters cast their ballots in the general election that concluded on June 1 and dismissed opposition concerns over how the votes would be counted. The seven-phase vote – the world’s largest – began on April 19 and …

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Eileen Cikamatana’s path to her first Olympics has been anything but straightforward but the Fijian-born weightlifter punched her ticket to Paris at the weekend and is determined to return with a medal. A teenage prodigy, Cikamatana won a Commonwealth Games gold medal for Fiji in 2018 but …

GEORGE TOWN: A PKR candidate will stand in the Sungai Bakap by-election, backed by the component parties in the unity government. State Pakatan Harapan chairman Chow Kon Yeow said the component parties in the Unity Government unanimously supported the PKR candidate. “No other party asked to contest there as it …

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea plans to suspend a military agreement signed with North Korea in 2018 aimed at easing tensions, the presidential office said on Monday, after Seoul warned of a strong response to balloons launched by Pyongyang carrying trash to the South. North Korea has launched hundreds balloons carried …

TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia’s parliamentary speaker signed into law on Monday a bill on “foreign agents” that has caused a political crisis in the South Caucasus country and drawn sharp criticism from its Western allies. The dispute around the law is a test of whether Georgia, for three decades among …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian wrestler Nadezhda Sokolova is determined to compete in the Paris Olympics even if that means taking part as an independent. One of Russia’s top freestyle wrestlers, Sokolova and dozens of other Russian and Belarusian athletes seeking Olympic glory this summer will have to compete without their …

KUALA LUMPUR: Preliminary reports indicate that a cow and three bull elephants recently found dead in Kluang, Johor, belonged to the Bandar Tenggara herd, which roamed the Lenggor, Kluang and Kluang Tambahan, Labir and Sembrong forest reserves in Johor, and Taman Negara Endau Rompin in Pahang. The Natural Resources and …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Monday the United States could face “fatal consequences” if it ignored Moscow’s warnings not to let Ukraine use weapons provided by Washington to strike targets inside Russia. Ryabkov was commenting on President Joe Biden’s decision last week to approve …

KUALA LUMPUR: Hardcore poverty definitions could differ in Sabah from those used in Peninsular Malaysia, says Parti Warisan president Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal. He stated that the Federal Government’s definition of hardcore poverty could not be directly applied when assessing poverty in Sabah. Shafie noted that hardcore poverty in …