#MorningBrief: Top 5 news
Astro Awani
March 10, 2017 12:39 MYT
March 10, 2017 12:39 MYT
Major news highlights today.
HERE is the list of today's news highlights
There was no sign of the two Malaysians who had reportedly left Pyongyang at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang last night.
The duo, who were believed to return home last night, are United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) employees, Stella Lim and Nyanaprakash Muniandy.
There is no words to describe S. Komala Theinmoli's immense relief to know that her younger sister, who is now in Pyongyang, North Korea, is safe.
Komala Theinmoli, 48, said the good news announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on the fate of 11 Malaysians in Pyongyang, was something she had been looking forward to for the past few days.
South Korea's Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye on Friday, removing her from office over a graft scandal involving big business that has gripped the country for months.
Park becomes South Korea's first democratically elected leader to be forced from office. A presidential election will be held in 60 days, according to the constitution.
Wikileaks will provide technology companies with exclusive access to CIA hacking tools that it possesses so they can patch software flaws, founder Julian Assange said on Thursday, presenting Silicon Valley with a potential dilemma on how to deal with the anti-secrecy group.
If the offer is legitimate, it would place technology companies in the unusual position of relying on Assange, a man believed by some U.S. officials and lawmakers to be an untrustworthy pawn of Russian President Vladimir Putin, to share cyber vulnerabilities stockpiled by a secretive U.S. spy agency.
Several states said on Thursday they would move forward with legal challenges to a revised executive order signed by President Donald Trump this week that temporarily bars the admission of refugees and some travellers from a group of Muslim-majority countries.
The new travel order, which is set to take effect on March 16, replaced a more sweeping ban issued on Jan. 27 that caused chaos and protests at airports.