#MorningBrief: Top 5 news
Astro Awani
February 14, 2017 11:18 MYT
February 14, 2017 11:18 MYT
Major news highlights today.
HERE is the list of key news you need to know today.
The guessing game continues on who will sit in Football Association Malaysia president's ‘hot seat’.
It is a tussle between Tengku Mahkota Johor (TMJ) Tengku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim and former President of Kelantan Football Association (KAFA) Tan Sri Annuar Musa.
Terengganu Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Razif Abd Rahman has decided not to contest the post of Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) deputy president.
The menteri besar, who is also Terengganu Football Association president, said the decision was to allow him to focus on both the state's administration and football in the state.
At least 32 people were killed when a tour bus crashed near Taipei on Monday night, with television footage showing the bus careening towards a road barrier before flipping on its side.
Of 44 people on the bus, 30 were pronounced dead at the scene and two died in hospital, the fire department said, adding that 12 people were still being treated in hospitals around Taipei, the capital.
The Iraqi airforce carried out a strike on a house where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was thought to be meeting other commanders, the Iraqi military said on Monday, without making clear whether he had been hit.
In a statement, it said Iraqi F-16s had targeted the house in western Iraq on Saturday. It published the names of 13 Islamic State commanders it said had been killed in the air strike, but the list did not include Baghdadi.
An explosion near the Punjab provincial assembly in the Pakistani city of Lahore killed at least 13 people and wounded 83 others on Monday, a senior police official said.
Mushtaq Sukhera, inspector general of police in Punjab province, said five police officers were among the dead when an explosion rocked a protest organised by Pakistan's chemists and pharmaceuticals manufacturers.