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Six students who survived the pre-dawn blaze at a religious school here are in critical condition, a Hospital Kuala Lumpur spokesman said today. (Bernama photo) The nation was rocked today with news that a deadly fire broke out at a religious school in Kampung Datuk Keramat. The blaze, at the Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah tahfiz school, […]

People are staring at Halima Aden, and it’s for one of two reasons: She’s dressed very differently from everyone else at this New York City restaurant, and she’s stunningly beautiful. The people gawking at the model include a family in matching pastel-blue sweaters, a jet-lagged Italian couple, and a bevy of thin blondes swaddled in […]

FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a military drill in Pyongyang. © KCNA / Reuters Pyongyang says it is the time to “annihilate” the US and turn it into “ashes” for initiating the latest round of sanctions. The North has also threatened Washington’s allies in the region, vowing to “sink” Japan and […]

President Trump meets Sept. 6 with Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House. (Evan Vucci/AP) Democratic leaders announced late Wednesday that they agreed with President Trump to pursue a legislative deal that would protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation and […]

Led by Fatemeh Khavari, refugees and their supporters have been holding a sit-down strike in Stockholm for over a month, protesting deportations to Afghanistan. Photo: Stina Stjernkvist/TT What drives someone to spend over a month sleeping outdoors in protest? The Local spent 24 hours with refugee youngsters on Stockholm’s streets to find out why they […]

A wide view of the Security Council Chamber as Michael Keating (left on screen), Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), briefs the Council via video link. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe 13 September 2017 – Highlighting complex immediate and long-term challenges in Somalia, the head of the United […]

Media captionFlorida nursing home survivors evacuated Six people at a Florida nursing home that was left without power for days after Hurricane Irma have died. Police evacuated 115 residents on Wednesday from the facility, whose air conditioning was cut by the storm. Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief said three were found dead at the nursing […]

Would-be immigrants atop a border fence separating Morocco from the north African Spanish enclave of Melilla. Photo: AFP The number of migrants arriving in Spain so far this year has soared more than 88 percent from the same period in 2016, Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said on Tuesday. Speaking in a parliamentary commission on […]

FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14. KCNA / Reuters   A radioactive gas, xenon-133, has been detected from the recent North Korean nuclear test, the South’s nuclear watchdog said, adding that it is still unclear whether it was from a hydrogen bomb test as Pyongyang claimed. Read […]

School students with their mobiles. AFP French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has touched off a public debate about banning phones in schools as he seeks to implement a campaign pledge by President Emmanuel Macron. In an interview with Express magazine, the minister suggested that pupils might be asked to deposit their phones in secure boxes […]