KUALA LUMPUR: A former construction and renovation company owner was sentenced to six months in prison by the Sessions Court here on Wednesday (July 3) after he pleaded guilty to transferring and concealing more than RM1.3mil belonging to a woman related to a job offer advertised on Facebook. Judge Hamidah …

HATHRAS, India (Reuters) – Thousands of devotees rushed to get a closer glimpse of a Hindu preacher, jostling and pushing on slippery ground, witnesses say, moments before a crush at an overcrowded venue in India killed 121 people and sparked a police hunt for the organisers. The stampede occurred on …

BERLIN (Reuters) – With eight teams left in the tournament the numbers around Euro 2024 are becoming clearer, with Spain, England and France all considered likely winners and a race for top scorer that is still very tight. The Opta Analyst prediction index gives Spain a 19.48% chance of adding …

KUALA LUMPUR: Two directors of a sub-contractor company were the latest individuals to be remanded by graft busters in connection with bribes involved in a highway construction project in the Klang Valley worth more than RM1bil. Sources said the suspects—a man and woman in their 50s—were detained between 5pm and …

SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s prime minister-designate Rosen Zhelyazkov of the centre-right GERB party failed on Wednesday to secure support for his proposed cabinet in parliament, prolonging a political stalemate in the Balkan country. Bulgaria, the poorest member of the European Union and one of its most corrupt states, has been …

TIRANA (Reuters) – Thousands of Albanians gathered in Tirana on Wednesday to pay tribute to their country’s best-known novelist Ismail Kadare, who died on Monday after a heart attack. Albanians from Albania, Kosovo and other countries in the region flocked to the capital to pay their respects to Kadare’s coffin, …

DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) – The eight remaining teams at the European Championship will take centre stage in the quarter-finals to be played on Friday and Saturday. Here is a quick guide to the fixtures (times in GMT). SPAIN v GERMANY Friday – Stuttgart, 1600 A quarter-final meeting between the two …

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela kicks off the home stretch of its presidential election campaign on Thursday ahead of voting planned for the end of the month, where analysts and pollsters say incumbent President Nicolas Maduro may be on the back foot. Opposition activists have regularly denounced what they call oppressive …

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Majorie Edoi sells food from a stand in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince – or she used to, until a conflict with armed gangs cut off the city from suppliers, paralyzed trade routes and pushed the Caribbean country to its highest levels of hunger on record. The 30-year-old mother …

BANGKOK: Five years after stepping on a skateboard for the first time, Vareeraya Sukasem (pic) will represent Thailand at the Olympics, aged just 12. Vareeraya, known by her nickname “ST”, booked her place in dramatic fashion at a qualifying event in Budapest last month and will be one of the …