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SELANGOR STATE, Malaysia (Reuters) — Customs officers at Kuala Lumpur International Airport seized 330 endangered tortoises on Monday (May 15). The tortoises flew in from Madagascar on May 14, on Etihad Airways, and had been documented in the manifest as “stones,” Kuala Lumpur Airport Custom Deputy Director Abdul Wahid Sulong told reporters. The 330 tortoises are valued at 1.2 million Ringgit ($277.000), he added. Malaysia is a major transit point for the trade in endangered […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) – The body of the assassinated half-brother of North Korea’s leader will be sent to Pyongyang and nine Malaysians freed, Malaysia’s prime minister said Thursday, ending a bitter feud between the two countries. Kim Jong-Nam was poisoned with the lethal nerve agent VX in a brazen Cold War-style assassination on February 13 in Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The murder triggered a diplomatic dispute between Malaysia and North Korea, which expelled each other’s […]
