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The MACC said it seized luxury bags, watches, gold, and jewellery worth over RM11 million from a Cheras home, along with casino equipment. — Picture by Choo Choy May
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A police van leaves the Ayer Keroh Court Complex in Melaka, believed to be transporting a 17-year-old suspect behind the stabbings that killed a 51-year-old teacher, her 21-year-old eldest son, and injured her 13-year-old son. — Bernama pic
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Brickfields police said the three Malaysian men were dining with friends when two other men on a motorcycle fired at them on June 13, 2025. — Reuters pic
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People and first-responders gather outside a that was hit by an Israeli strike in Tehran June 13, 2025. — AFP pic
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No Malaysians affected in Israel’s strikes on Iran, says Foreign Ministry

The Indian businessman and polo patron reportedly suffered anaphylactic shock after a bee sting during a match at Windsor. — Picture via Instagram/Guards Polo Club
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US President Donald Trump today said the Israeli attack on Iran has been ‘excellent’ and warned there was much more to come, according to an interview with ABC News. — AFP pic
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Trump calls Israeli attack on Iran ‘excellent,’ warns of more to come in ABC interview

Tan Sri Razarudin Husain was appointed as the 14th IGP on contract after retiring, with his tenure beginning on June 23, 2023. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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A Malaysian male actor-singer is expected to be charged on June 17, 2025 with sexual misconduct against a 17-year-old girl at a hotel in Selangor. — Picture by Choo Choy May
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Selangor police: Malaysian actor-singer to face child sex offence charge in court next week after hotel incident with teen

Members of the Israeli security forces inspect a site hit by a missile fired from Iran, in Ramat Gan on the outskirts of Tel Aviv on June 13, 2025. Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel in a counter-strike on June 13, after an unprecedented onslaught hammered the Islamic republic's top military brass and targeted its nuclear facilities and bases. — AFP pic
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A view shows a damaged building at the crash site of Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane, that crashed during take-off from an airport, in Ahmedabad, India, June 13, 2025. — Reuters pic
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Lunch plates abandoned, plane parts embedded in walls after Air India jet hit doctors’ hostel

First-responders gather outside a that was hit by an Israeli strike in Tehran on June 13, 2025. Israel hit about 100 targets in Iran on June 13, including nuclear facilities and military command centres and killing senior figures including the armed forces chief and top nuclear scientists. — Tasnim News/AFP pic
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Iran calls Israeli strikes a ‘declaration of war’, vows ‘scathing response’

The prime minister said the exemption will cover all levels, including preschools, primary and secondary schools, vocational colleges, and institutions of higher learning. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin
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Anwar: Private preschools to universities exempt from education levy for one year from Jan 1

Strip club dancers prepare for a performance in a dressing room at the strip club ‘Flash Dancers’ in Kharkiv on May 15, 2025. Since Russia’s 2022 invasion, exhausted troops are the main clientele of the Flash Dancers club in the centre of the north-eastern city, just 20 kilometres from Russian forces. The dancers act as confidantes to soldiers bruised — mentally and physically — by a three-year war with no end in sight. — AFP pic
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Police are also looking for the owner of the Nissan Sylphy which was driven by another at the time of the accident on June 13, 2025. — Bernama file pic
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Search ongoing for pedestrian swept away in river after Nissan Sylphy-Toyota Camry crash on Jalan Ipoh, driver detained

LAPD officers arrest a man on the side of the freeway as protests continue in response to federal immigration operations in Los Angeles on June 10, 2025. Hundreds of Marines are due to arrive in Los Angeles on June 10 after US President Donald Trump ordered their deployment in response to protests against immigration arrests and despite objections by state officials. — AFP pic
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There was an accident up north near the jungles in a road cutting through the range which divides our peninsula, after most of us were asleep to be fresh for a Monday workday after the Raya Haji weekend. Killed, 15 future teachers. The story continues to develop as grieving families bury their young. The who, what, when, why and how heats up inside an intense inquest. — Bernama pic
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Safer express buses is a two-way street

At the same time I wistfully daydream about flying somewhere, anywhere just to clear my head but with a new Covid variant (again) and my legs made of lead, I think next year is a safer bet.— AFP pic
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The wreckage of the bus involved in a horrific accident that claimed the lives of 15 Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) students at KM53 of the East-West Highway near Gerik . — Bernama pic
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According to the author, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to strike Iran, on a day so symbolically loaded with religious significance, not only risks igniting another front in an already combustible Middle East, it also imperils the precarious diplomacy that US President Donald Trump has painstakingly tried to preserve, especially among Sunni Arab monarchies. — Reuters file pic
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Netanyahu, not Zelensky, is bringing the world to the brink of World War III — Phar Kim Beng

Dentistry students from UM during a community outreach programme with residents of Rumah Sahabat in Hulu Langat, Selangor between April and May 2025. — Picture courtesy of the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya
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UM dental students provide care and support to former drug addicts — Nor Azlida Mohd Nor and Mia Izrina Izzuddin

Former research assistant Muhammed Yusoff Rawther was discharged and acquitted by the High Court in Kuala Lumpur on June 12, 2025, of charges involving cannabis trafficking and possession of two imitation firearms. — Bernama pic
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It’s still early days, but Yusoff Rawther deserves his freedom now — Hafiz Hassan

A basic degree of comfort and stability was indicated when households had enough sarongs, which signified they had money to spend on things other than food. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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Ungku Aziz and his Sarong Index — Suhaiza Hanim Datuk Mohamad Zailani  

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