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Indonesia’s deputy minister for immigration affairs, Silmy Karim, has been arrested after about 10 hours of questioning.Published On 4 Jun 20264 Jun 2026Amid a crackdown on corruption in Indonesia, the deputy minister for immigration affairs has been arrested over alleged irregularities in the administration of immigration documents.Budi Prasetyo, spokesperson for the anticorruption agency KPK, confirmed Silmy Karim’s arrest to the Reuters news agency on Thursday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe alleged corruption occurred from 2023 to 2024, said Budi, when Karim served as director general for immigration affairs under then-President Joko Widodo.Karim was questioned at the KPK office…
The Knicks are bidding to win their first Championship since 1973 and Karl-Anthony Towns said the fans have been inspiring their comebacks.”It’s something that’s in the city, you feel that energy in the city,” said Towns, who posted 18 points and 12 rebounds.”The grit, the grind, the hard work you’ve got to put in to make it in the city. “I think we reflect our fans and their lifestyles and what it takes to make it in New York City, when we step on that court with the Knicks jersey.”It was a quiet night for Victor Wembanyama. He was the…
The NHS is taking action to tackle antisemitism after a government-ordered report found that Jewish patients and staff face “routine ostracism” in the service.Anti-Jewish hatred in the NHS means some patients hide their identity and staff “suffer in silence”, a review by Lord Mann, the government’s adviser on antisemitism, has found.Moves to combat it will see NHS staff’s freedom to display political symbols on their uniforms restricted and bosses of the service’s 205 health trusts in England given antisemitism training.Antisemitism is so rife in the NHS that it threatens its basis as a universal service, with Jews not confident they…
East Africa is currently in the throes of a rapidly spreading Ebola epidemic, with governments scrambling to contain the virus and hundreds of people confirmed with the infection.The outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic fever, which has been triggered by a rare and deadly strain of Ebola, was first declared by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on May 15 in the conflict-wracked eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The disease has since spread to neighbouring Uganda, which shares border communities with eastern DRC.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public…
FIFA earlier permitted empty, transparent, reusable plastic bottles inside World Cup stadiums but says the updated code now prohibits them.Published On 4 Jun 20264 Jun 2026Fans at the 2026 World Cup will not be allowed to carry reusable water bottles into venues due to safety concerns, FIFA says after a last-minute change to its stadium code of conduct.As recently as last month, FIFA had permitted empty, transparent, reusable plastic bottles up to 1 litre (1 quart) inside stadiums, but it said on Thursday that the updated code, which came into effect from Tuesday, prohibits them.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend…
Born in Rosario, Argentina, Bielsa hails from a family of educated minds, with his brother having worked in politics and his sister a renowned architect.Both of those professions require analytical thinking – a gift Bielsa also possessed from childhood. However, he was drawn to football, not necessarily playing it but absorbing the tactics.Every day he would send his mother to the local newsagent to buy football magazines and newspapers, spending hours reading up as much as he could about how teams played and how different managers worked.Bielsa was still a capable but limited footballer. A defender but lacking in pace,…
Currency plunge comes as energy shock from the Iran war casts a cloud over Southeast Asian economies.By Agence France Presse and ReutersPublished On 4 Jun 20264 Jun 2026Indonesia’s rupiah has hit its weakest level ever against the US dollar, breaching the psychological 18,000 threshold amid surging energy costs.The currency hit 18,028 against the greenback on Thursday, despite recent central bank efforts to provide support.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe energy shock driven by the US-Israel war on Iran has placed a significant strain on energy-importing Southeast Asian economies, particularly Indonesia and the Philippines.The resulting pressure on trade balances…
Shnaider also refused to speak about the war or her feelings towards it – leading to more criticism from Kostyuk.”They are all grown-ups. They know what they’re talking about. They know what’s going on. They have phones. They have Instagram. They have news. They are clearly aware of what’s going on,” said Kostyuk.”I don’t know how you can sleep at night peacefully when you know that this is going on and you have nothing to say about it.”Kostyuk has dedicated each of her Roland Garros victories to her nation.While acknowledging she is privileged to have a career which means she…
A whale that became entangled in a large fishing net and was dragging four buoys and 100 metres of rope behind its tail has been cut free after a complex multi-day rescue operation off the southern coast of New Zealand.The nine-metre-long southern right whale, or tohorā in Māori, was first spotted by fishers on Saturday morning near the country’s southern island, Rakiura.It is the first time a southern right whale has been recorded entangled in New Zealand waters, and the rescue required an advanced level of expertise, said Jennifer Ross, the Department of Conservation’s (DOC) Rakiura operations manager.The whale did…
Protests in Albania over a proposed luxury resort backed by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are set to intensify after opponents rejected an offer from the country’s prime minister “to discuss solutions”.Thousands took to the streets of Tirana for a third straight day on Wednesday, some of them brandishing inflatable flamingos in a nod to feared environmental damage, amid mounting calls for the project to be blocked.Protests are also planned for the south of the country, where groundwork on the $1.6bn (£1.19bn) complex recently began in an area long seen as one of the Mediterranean’s most environmentally sensitive.“From start to…