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Napisah Muhammad was inside the car when an unknown man drove it away from the petrol station before offloading her about 400m away.

At least 15 Indian crew members were on board the MV Lila Norfolk, which was hijacked near Somalia's coast.

Oman identified the Panama-flagged Asphalt Princess as the tanker involved in a hijacking.

They were extradited from Hanoi, Vietnam and flown to the Senai International Airport early today.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim said, at present, the government was awaiting decision of its appeal for the case in Vietnam.

A Vietnamese court agreed to hand over to Malaysia eight Indonesians who were arrested last year on suspicion of hijacking a Malaysian-flagged oil tanker.

The man accused of hijacking an Egyptian plane and diverting it to Cyprus did not enter the cockpit during the six-hour long ordeal, the pilot of the aircraft said Sunday.

A judge in Larnaca on the island's southern coast ordered Egyptian Seif al-Din Mohamed Mostafa held for eight days during his first court appearance after Tuesday's hijacking.

Seif al-Din Mohamed Mostafa, a 58-year-old Egyptian who has a Cypriot ex-wife, was not asked to address the court.

The motives behind the hijacking of an EgyptAir flight, which was diverted to Cyprus, remain somewhat unclear.

Airplane hijackings such as the one that unfolded on Tuesday involving an Egyptian airliner have become relatively rare since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks led to increased security.

The hijacking of an EgyptAir plane to Cyprus on Tuesday is not related to terrorism, the island's President Nicos Anastasiades said.

Cyprus on Tuesday closed Larnaca airport after a hijacker seized an Egyptian airliner and forced it to land on the eastern Mediterranean island.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) will meet with the Indonesian authority on Sept 17 to discuss the custody of the alleged mastermind behind the MT Orkim Harmony hijacking case.

The recent hijacking of a Singapore-registered tanker, MT Joaquim last Saturday (Aug 8) in the Straits of Malacca has provided yet another timely reminder of the current risks facing seafarers.

Donald Trump says he would impose the tariffs until China stops the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, into the United States.

Topping the demands of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party is the release of all its leaders, including Khan, who has been jailed on a series of corruption charges since August 2023.

The report highlights that "60 per cent of all female homicides" are committed by "people closely related to them".

Two subsea cables, one linking Finland and Germany and the other connecting Sweden to Lithuania, were damaged in less than 24 hours.

It is clear that adding more lanes and highways doesn't work, because we are still attempting the same approach to solve the issue.

This investment includes efforts to upgrade INOKOM's existing assembly capacity to meet Hyundai's automotive needs.

'C4Cinta', directed by young filmmaker Karthik Shamalan, has set a new benchmark in Malaysian Tamil cinema.

The court denied bail and scheduled case mention on Feb 7 for the submission of forensic, autopsy, and chemist reports.

The classroom assessment approach offers a much more interesting learning ecosystem, says Fadhlina Sidek.

Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.