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Public warned against buying smuggled pork over disease risks, says Rundi
8+ hour, 12+ min ago (377+ words) KUCHING (Feb 20): The public has been urged not to purchase smuggled pork, as it poses serious disease risks that could devastate Sarawak's livestock industry. Sarawak Minister for Food Industry, Commodity and Regional Development Dato Sri Dr Stephen Rundi Utom said…...
Freedom Flotilla Coalition humanitarian mission with Malaysians set to enter yellow zone off Gaza soon
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (349+ words) SERDANG (Oct 4): The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) humanitarian mission, with nine Malaysians aboard, is expected to reach the yellow zone, 300 nautical miles off the Gaza coast, within the next 24 hours, as of this afternoon. Humanitarian Care Malaysia (MyCARE) chief executive…...
Freedom Flotilla to reach Gaza within three to four days
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (269+ words) ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Oct 4): Freedom Flotilla Coalition has 430 miles left and will reach the Gaza borders within three or four days, the coalition's T'rkiye representative told Anadolu Ajansi. "Hopefully, within the next three or four days, we will reach the borders…...
11 more ships sail to Gaza in bid to break Israeli blockade
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (260+ words) ISTANBUL (Oct 3): The international organisation the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) said Thursday that 11 more ships are sailing toward the Gaza Strip to challenge a years-long Israeli blockade. Anadolu Ajansi reported FFC in a statement, said two boats flying Italian and…...
Spain suffers third wildfire death, Greece beats back flames
6+ mon, 5+ day ago (547+ words) MADRID (Aug 14): Spain today mourned its third wildfire death this week and Greece began beating back a blaze threatening its third-largest city Patras as an unrelenting heatwave stoked tinderbox conditions in southern Europe. The extreme summer heat, which scientists say…...
Foreign man suffers severe head injuries after fall from Serian shoplot
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (121+ words) The injured man lies motionless after reportedly falling from the third floor of the shoplot. SERIAN (July 20): A foreign man is believed to have fallen from the third floor of a shoplot in Serian town earlier this morning. According to…...
Liverpool football star Diogo Jota dies in car crash in Spain
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (236+ words) MADRID (July 3): Liverpool and Portugal forward Diogo Jota and his brother died in a car crash in northwestern Spain today, police said, weeks after the star got married. The Civil Guard said a vehicle veered off a motorway and burst…...
Europe bakes in summer's first heatwave as continent warms
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (402+ words) MARSEILLE (June 28): Sweating Europeans braced today for the first heatwave of the northern hemisphere summer, as climate change pushes the world's fastest-warming continent's thermometers increasingly into the red. Temperatures are set to rise to 37 degrees Celsius (99 degrees Fahrenheit) in Rome,…...
How one romance is bringing China, Italy closer together
8+ mon, 5+ day ago (865+ words) HANGZHOU (June 15): The sisterly bond between the Chinese city of Hangzhou and the Italian city of Verona originates from their shared connection to famous love stories celebrated worldwide. The tragic romances of the Chinese Butterfly Lovers and Italy's Romeo and…...
Power outage brings chaos to Spain and Portugal
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (789+ words) MADRID (April 29): Lights flickered back to life in Spain and Portugal early Tuesday after a massive blackout hit the Iberian peninsula stranding passengers in trains and hundreds of elevators while millions saw phone and internet coverage die. More than 60 per…...