Ten crew members were killed in the incident, the Malaysian Navy has confirmed Two helicopters of the Royal Malaysian Navy (TLDM) collided during a rehearsal for next month’s 90th anniversary celebration show on Tuesday. The two aircraft collided and crashed at the Lumut TLDM naval base at 9:32 in the morning local time while carrying out a flyby rehearsal, the Navy said in a statement. “All victims were confirmed dead on site and the remains were sent to TLDM Military Hospital for identification process,” the Navy confirmed in a statement, adding an investigative body will be formed to find o ..read more

Pyongyang has held a large-scale combined “nuclear counterattack” drill Pyongyang has carried out a drill designed to test the nuclear forces’ coordination system in a counterattack scenario, the state Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un personally observed several super-large multiple rocket launchers firing a salvo of missiles towards an island in the Sea of Japan. The exercise was held on Monday and came just days after the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) tested a new “super-large warhead” cruise missile and a new type of anti ..read more

Dommaraju Gukesh, who is just 17, has won the Candidates tournament to earn the right to take on current champion Ding Liren India’s Dommaraju Gukesh won the FIDE candidates chess tournament in Toronto on Sunday and will move on to play for the world championship against China’s Ding Liren later this year.   The Indian grandmaster, who is just 17 years of age, became the youngest ever to win the Candidates tournament after he held American Hikaru Nakamura to a draw in the final round, thus clinching victory in the nearly three-week-long tournament.   If Gukesh is able to defeat Ding ..read more

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promises more long-range missiles, dozens of boats and hundreds of armored vehicles London has jumped on the Ukraine aid bandwagon, revealing plans to provide the largest package of British military assistance, as Washington inches closer to approving some $61 billion in new funding for Kiev. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will officially announce the new aid plan when he travels to Warsaw on Tuesday for talks with his Polish counterpart, Donald Tusk. The package is valued at £500 million ($617 million) and will include more than 400 vehicles, 60 boats and an undisclo ..read more

Beijing has dismissed the allegations as an attempted smear campaign Berlin has arrested three German nationals on suspicion of spying for China, the Prosecutor General’s Office said on Monday. Authorities claim to have evidence of the accused passing German technologies on to Beijing in violation of the Foreign Trade Act. The Federal Court of Justice – Germany’s highest judicial body – issued warrants for the arrest of the three individuals identified only as Thomas R., Herwig F. and Ina F. last Wednesday. The defendants’ residences and workplaces were also searched as part of the ongoing pro ..read more

An ex-adviser to US leaders has been accused of possessing indecent images and arranging commission of a sexual offense in the UK A former White House aide who advised then-President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on counterterrorism initiatives has reportedly been accused of committing child sex crimes in the UK. Rahamim “Rami” Shy, 46, was arraigned on Friday in Luton Crown Court, near London. He faces charges of possessing indecent images of children and arranging the commission of a child sexual offense, according to local media reports. The New Jersey resident was arr ..read more

Pro-Palestinian students at Columbia have camped out in protest of Israel Columbia University in New York City has decided to hold virtual classes on Monday, after a rabbi urged the Jewish students to stay home, because they were no longer safe. Hundreds of students were arrested last Thursday after setting up a ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ on campus. A group of Jewish counter-protesters got into an altercation with the demonstrators on Saturday evening, prompting Rabbi Elie Buechler to send out the warning. “What we are witnessing in and around campus is terrible and tragic. The events of the ..read more

Moscow appears unconcerned with the $61 billion aid bill Washington’s $61 billion pledge to Kiev will make little difference on the battlefield, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. The US House of Representatives approved a $95 billion foreign aid package, almost two thirds of which would be spent on Ukraine-related programs. The Kremlin, however, doesn’t appear the slightest bit alarmed. “Fundamentally, this will not change the situation on the battlefield,” Peskov told reporters on Monday.  Pointing to the steady Russian advances along the front, Peskov said the dynam ..read more

West Jerusalem’s allegations triggered an exodus of Western money from a critical relief agency Israel gave no evidence to support its claims that UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) staffers aided Hamas’ October 7 attack on the Jewish state, an independent review commissioned by the UN has found. The Israeli government claimed in January that a dozen UNRWA employees took part in the attack, in which the militant group killed around 1,100 people in Israel and took around 250 hostages to Gaza. West Jerusalem also claimed that 190 UNRWA staffers provided in ..read more

The veto on Palestinian statehood and Israeli strikes on Iran are signs of irreversible decline in American soft power So-called Western values, especially those touted by the United States, have long revealed themselves to be hollow and contradictory. The country’s Declaration of Independence from Great Britain famously stated that “all men are created equal,” while instituting brutal chattel slavery on Africans and committing a horrific genocide against the Native people of the Americas. Yet, it could still be argued – in terms however trite – that the US was somehow on the right side of his ..read more