Mahathir says ruling coalition could be a one-term govt
Reuters, Langkawi
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday his ruling coalition could be a one-term government if it does not make some changes. Mahathir’s Pakatan Harapan coalition, or Alliance of Hope, defeated the long ruling Barisan National coalition in May 2018 on promises of reforms and widespread disgust over corruption.
Nine killed in Indonesia bridge collapse
AFP, Bengkulu
Nine people drowned and another was missing after a bridge collapsed on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, the disaster agency said Monday.
Some 30 people, mostly students, were on the bridge Sunday afternoon in the town of Kaur when the newly built crossing suddenly collapsed, hurtling some teens into the water below while others clutched on to the railing. The water level in the river below the bridge was higher than usual with strong currents after torrential downpours pounded the Bengkulu region at the southern end of Sumatra.
South Korean court acquits man executed in 1948
AFP, Seoul
A South Korean court on Monday posthumously exonerated a man executed more than 70 years ago for assisting rebel forces, saying he had been wrongly convicted.
Chang Hwan-bong, then 29, was among hundreds of people who were accused of helping left-leaning soldiers in an armed uprising against the government in the southwestern cities of Yeosu and Suncheon in 1948.
Four die in Nigeria oil pipeline fire
AFP, Lagos
Four people were killed and several shops and vehicles burnt after thieves breached a fuel pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, causing an explosion, emergency services said Monday.
The incident, which happened on Sunday evening in the Abule-Egba area, is the latest in a long string of such accidents.
