WASHINGTON, April 4 — US President Donald Trump asked Congress yesterday for US$152 million (RM612.8 million) to begin rebuilding the notorious Alcatraz prison, pressing ahead with his vision to return […]

BEIJING, April 4 — Ma Xingrui, a member of China’s elite Politburo who had risen rapidly through the ranks after working as a rocket scientist, is under investigation over suspected

JAKARTA, April 4 — The three United Nations peacekeepers wounded in a blast in southern Lebanon yesterday were from Indonesia, UN officials said, just days after three other Indonesians were

TOKYO, April 4 — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is planning a visit to Australia, seeking to discuss supply chains for rare-earth elements and cooperation on safe navigation in the

SYDNEY, April 4 — Australians were urged to maintain their travel plans for Easter weekend although hundreds of petrol stations, mostly in rural areas, were without power today, as the

KYIV, April 4 — A large-scale daytime Russian strike killed at least two people in Ukraine yesterday, officials said, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced as an “Easter escalation,” as

WASHINGTON, April 4 — Recent US intelligence reports warn that Iran is unlikely to open the Strait of Hormuz any time soon because its grip on the world’s most vital

ROME, April 4 — Pope Leo led a candle-lit service with thousands of Catholics inside Rome’s famed Colosseum yesterday evening that featured prayers for war orphans and deported immigrant children,

LONDON, April 4 — Three young men have been charged with arson over the vandalising of four ambulances run by a Jewish charity in London, British police said yesterday. British

BEIRUT, April 4 — The Israeli military said today it had begun striking “Hezbollah infrastructure” in Beirut after it destroyed a bridge in eastern Lebanon to prevent the Iran-backed group’s