#MorningBrief: Top 5 news
Astro Awani
February 15, 2017 12:08 MYT
February 15, 2017 12:08 MYT
Major news highlights today.
HERE is the list of key news you need to know today.
The estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been murdered in Malaysia, a South Korean government source said on Tuesday.
Kim Jong Nam, the older half brother of the North Korean leader, was known to spend a significant amount of his time outside the country and had spoken out publicly against his family's dynastic control of the isolated state.
Police today confirmed that a man had been kidnapped while driving alone on Jalan Bahagia in Petaling Jaya near here.
The victim, a priest identified as Raymond Koh, was last seen driving a Honda Accord car with the registration number ST 5515 D yesterday morning along the route.
The Nautical Aliya vessel carrying more than 180 volunteers from 12 countries safely berthed in the port of Chittagong at 12:30 pm Tuesday.
The ship carrying more than 2,000 tonnes of relief goods was guided in by a coastguard patrol boat as it began entering the Karnaphuli River at 9: 15 am local time (11:15 am GMT).
Nearly 50 million Indonesians are set to vote on Wednesday in scores of regional elections but the most closely watched is in the capital, Jakarta, where campaigning for the post of governor has inflamed religious tension.
Polls will open first in the east of the sprawling archipelago. In all, 101 elections will be held in the world's third-most populous democracy, for provincial, city and district chiefs.
President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned late on Monday under scrutiny over whether he discussed the possibility of lifting U.S. sanctions on Russia before Trump took office.
Flynn submitted his resignation hours after Trump said through a spokesman that he was reviewing the situation and talking to Vice President Mike Pence. Flynn had promised Pence he had not discussed sanctions with the Russians but it was later discovered that the subject had come up.