Senior officer, five policemen detained on suspicion of drug trafficking

Senior officer, five policemen detained on suspicion of drug trafficking

Senior officer, five policemen detained on suspicion of drug trafficking

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 12:22 AM PDT

A senior police officer and five policemen from the Kuala Lumpur Narcotics division were detained two weeks ago on suspicion of drug trafficking.

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Controversies

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 12:22 AM PDT

The massive amount of money would be put to better use by awarding more scholarships to cultivate a greater number of talents, introducing projects that benefit the majority people, or making allocation for the construction of medium-to-low cost houses to help young people who cannot afford to own a house.

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Philippines rules out hero’s burial for dictator Marcos

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 11:42 PM PDT

MANILA, June 18 — Philippine President Benigno Aquino has decided not to allow the body of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos to be buried in a cemetery for national heroes in Manila, his spokesman said today. Ricky Carandang, head of the presidential communications development and strategic planning, told Reuters the president had yet to decide ...

Friendly Obama-Boehner golf game has high stakes

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 11:57 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saturday's round of golf between President Barack Obama and Republican leader John Boehner has unusually high stakes for a friendly game, since any positive sentiment it yields may help lead to a debt deal.

S.Korean troops shoot at civilian airliner by mistake

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 11:57 PM PDT

SEOUL, Jun 18 (Reuters) - South Korean marine Corps troops fired at a commercial aircraft flying near the tense sea border with North Korea, misidentifying it as one of the communist North's jet fighters, but no damage occurred, military sources said on Saturday.

U.S. congresswoman returning to city where she was shot

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 11:57 PM PDT

PHOENIX (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords is returning home to the Arizona city of Tucson for the weekend for the first time since she left the state for treatment after being shot in the head in January, her office said on Friday.

NEWSMAKER - Finland's PM Katainen faces reform challenge

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 11:26 PM PDT

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Jyrki Katainen, Finland's new prime minister, struggled to form a government and will face more tough times with his six-party coalition in the Nordic country in need of prompt fiscal reforms.

Three baby elephants killed by Sri Lankan train

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 11:21 PM PDT

Three baby elephants were killed when they were hit by a passenger train in Sri Lanka on Saturday, an official said.

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Support for Australian PM plummets

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 10:59 PM PDT

SYDNEY, June 18 — Support for embattled Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has fallen to historic lows, a leading poll showed today, threatening her plans to introduce major reforms such as new carbon and mining taxes. The AC Nielsen poll showed that only 27 per cent of voters would choose her Labor party first under Australia's system of ...

Venezuelan troops storm jail after deadly riots

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 10:44 PM PDT

CARACAS, June 18 — Thousands of troops stormed a Venezuelan jail yesterday to regain control of the complex after gunbattles between inmates killed at least 22 people in the latest riots to rock the overcrowded prison system. The authorities also fired teargas to disperse relatives of the prisoners who demonstrated and lit barricades in the ...

S. Korean troops shoot at civilian plane by mistake

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:34 PM PDT

SEOUL, June 18 — South Korean troops fired at a commercial aircraft flying near the tense sea border with North Korea, mistaking it as one of the communist North's jet fighters, but no damage occurred, local news media reported yesterday. The Yonhap news agency, quoting a military source, said two marine corps soldiers guarding the waters off the ...

US congresswoman returning to city where she was shot

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:10 PM PDT

PHOENIX, June 18 — US Representative Gabrielle Giffords is returning home to the Arizona city of Tucson for the weekend for the first time since she left the state for treatment after being shot in the head in January, her office said yesterday. The Democratic congresswoman, who was discharged on Wednesday from a Houston hospital, will not make ...

Japan’s Tepco suspends cleanup at Fukushima plant

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:55 PM PDT

TOKYO, June 18 — The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, said today it had suspended an operation to clean up radioactive water only hours after it had begun as radiation levels rose faster than expected. "The level of radiation at a machine to absorb caesium has risen faster than our initial projections," said a spokesman ...

Fighting as Libyan rebels try to close on Gaddafi

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:50 PM PDT

DAFNIYAH, Libya, June 18 — Libya's rebels have traded heavy artillery fire with Muammar Gaddafi's forces near the western city of Zlitan as they tried to take government-held territory east of the capital Tripoli. The city, 160km from Tripoli, is the next major town on the Mediterranean coastal road to the capital from the rebel stronghold of ...

Morocco’s king speech on constitutional reform

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:46 PM PDT

RABAT, June 18 — Morocco's King Mohammed promised a new democratic constitution yesterday that would devolve some of his powers to parliament and the government, adding Moroccans would be able to vote for the changes in a July 1 referendum. Following are highlights from the televised address: "We have managed, three months after launching a ...

Obama ignored top legal advice on Libya

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:34 PM PDT

WASHINGTON, June 18 — President Barack Obama ignored legal advice from top Pentagon and US Justice Department lawyers, siding with other advisers who said he had legal authority to continue air strikes against Libya without congressional approval, the New York Times reported yesterday. Citing officials familiar with the administration's ...

Clinton, Lavrov discuss Syria UN resolution

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:25 PM PDT

WASHINGTON, June 18 — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday, trying to break a deadlock over a UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. Russia and China dislike the idea of any UN Security Council judgment on Syria and have played little ...

Syrian forces kill 19 in biggest protest

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 07:45 PM PDT

AMMAN, June 18 — Syrian forces shot dead 19 people yesterday when they fired at demonstrators demanding the removal of President Bashar al-Assad in the biggest protest since unrest against Baathist rule erupted in March, activists said. European powers, which had initiated a detente with Assad prior to the street protests to try to draw the Syrian ...

Morocco King to lose some powers under reforms, remain key figure

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 07:16 PM PDT

RABAT, June 18 — Morocco's reformed constitution will make officials more accountable and will give the government greater powers, but King Mohammed will remain a key power-broker in the security, military and religious fields, according to a draft seen by Reuters. After facing the biggest anti-establishment protests in decades, King Mohammed in ...

Six Pakistani Rangers sent to jail for videotaped killing

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:35 PM PDT

KARACHI, June 18 — Pakistan's police presented charge sheets against six members of a paramilitary force yesterday for the killing of an unarmed man last week, a government lawyer said, in a rare rebuke to the country's powerful military. The incident in the southern city of Karachi was caught on videotape and broadcast on television channels ...

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