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KUALA LUMPUR, April 25 (Reuters) – Malaysia has named a former judge to head the country’s anti-corruption agency after the current chief, whose long tenure has been marred by allegations of misconduct, leaves next month. Abdul Halim Aman will take the helm of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) effective May 13, the chief secretary to the government, Shamsul Azri Abu Bakar, said on Saturday. “The government is confident that with […]

TOKYO, April 25 (Reuters) – Two forest fires in northern Japan’s Iwate Prefecture burned into a fourth day on Saturday as ground and aerial firefighting efforts expanded to more than 1,000 personnel. The blazes are pushing closer to the residential areas of the town of Otsuchi, where about a third of the town’s residents were ordered to evacuate. • One fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon in a mountainous area […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Michael Harris II is on quite a roll for the Atlanta Braves. Even when he’s ailing, he still finds a way to come up with the biggest hit of the game. After being scratched from the lineup because of tightness in his left quad, Harris delivered as a pinch-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night. Harris drove a two-run double against the wall in left-center off […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said it launched another strike Friday on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people. The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted since early September and killed at least 183 people in total. Other strikes have taken place in the Caribbean Sea. The military has not provided evidence that […]

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Athletics got off to a fast start against the Texas Rangers on Friday night, hitting three solo home runs in the first inning. Nick Kurtz, Carlos Cortes and Tyler Soderstrom — three of the first four hitters — homered just seven pitches into the game. Kurtz launched Nathan Eovaldi’s first pitch over the right-field wall. Cortes sent another shot to right, and Tyler Soderstrom homered […]

Pass rusher Jonathan Greenard, dealt by the Minnesota Vikings to Philadelphia on Friday, agreed to a big-money extension with the Eagles, multiple media outlets reported. The Eagles received Greenard and a seventh-round pick in this year’s draft in exchange for a third-round pick on Friday (No. 98 overall) and a third-rounder in 2027. Greenard then reportedly landed a four-year, $100 million extension from the Eagles, including $50 million in guaranteed […]

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Friday it struck a vessel in the Eastern Pacific, killing two people, in the latest such attack, condemned by rights groups as “extrajudicial killings” and described by Washington as targeting “narco-terrorists.” • The U.S. Southern Command alleged that the vessel struck on Friday was operated by “Designated Terrorist Organizations” that it did not identify. • It said […]

The Dallas Cowboys continued to bolster their defense on Friday, trading a fifth-round draft pick for San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dee Winters. Winters, 25, started all 17 regular-season games last season and had team-high 101 tackles as well as eight tackles for loss, five passes defended and one interception which he returned 74 yards for a touchdown. A native of Brenham, Texas, Winters has 155 career tackles, eight tackles for […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs said Victor Wembanyama is not available for Friday night’s Game 3 against Portland in the teams’ first-round playoff series while he continues to recover from a concussion. Wembanyama — the league’s first unanimous Defensive Player of the Year and one of three finalists for the Most Valuable Player award — went down in the second quarter of Game 2 on Tuesday night […]