19/05/2008 18:03, Report by Gemma Thompson in Moscow
Moscow Diary 1: Reds are here
The sun was shining as the Reds touched down in Moscow at 8pm local time on Monday evening after a four-hour flight from Manchester.
Sir Alex and his 24-man squad headed straight to the team hotel via a police escort for some dinner, before retiring to [...]

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PETALING JAYA: Scores of people ran out of their apartments in many parts of the Klang Valley last night when they felt tremors following an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale which occurred in northern Sumatra at 10.26pm.
Tremors were also felt in Klang and as far south as Malacca.
An aftershock was also felt at [...]

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Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat says Dr Mahathir should have quit a long time ago.
KOTA BARU: “I am the happiest person now,” said Pas spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat on hearing that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had resigned from Umno.

“I was asleep when I [...]

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THE government will continue to uphold and fight for the rights of the Malays and Islam as stated in the Constitution, Datuk Seri Najib Razak said.

Such matters should never be questioned, diluted or politicised, he said at a dinner with Malaysian Al-Azhar University students in Cairo on Sunday night.
The deputy prime minister said there [...]

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TANGKAK: Six friends are believed to have lost their way and are stranded in Gunung Ledang here since Saturday.

Lee Meng Joo, 22, and his five friends were supposed to stay at the Gunung Ledang Resort but there were no available rooms so they decided to hike up the mountain instead.
They climbed up Gunung [...]

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CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - China tried to restore calm in the southwestern city of Chengdu on Tuesday after tens of thousands of people rushed into the streets alarmed by a television prediction of another powerful earthquake.

An earthquake survivor waits for the news of her relative in the quake-hit township of Hanwang in Mianzhu city, north [...]

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Malaysia’s Mohd Zaquan Adha Abd Razak (left) is tackled by Nigeria’s Adedeji Adeyinka Michael during their match at the Petaling Jaya Stadium yesterday. Pic: HASAN ISMAIL.
MALAYSIA held Nigeria to a 1-1 draw but their Inter-Continental Cup campaign is over after Ireland were held to a 0-0 draw by Iraq in the other Group [...]

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Mira (left) and her eldest brother at their mother’s grave at Kampung Kadut, Segamat.
SEGAMAT: Death lurks in many homes in Kampung Kadut here with several families having at least one member who is HIV positive.

Eight people, aged between 24 and 40, have died in the last 18 months.
Some [...]

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Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad at the Kedah Malay Assembly Hall meeting in Alor Star yesterday.
ALOR STAR: Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has quit Umno saying he has totally lost confidence in its leadership.

He made the unexpected announcement in front of about 1,500 people at a forum in response to [...]

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NEW YORK, TUES
Umno vice-president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has advised Umno members against making hasty decisions which can damage the party, the position of the Malays and the country.

He said they should act wisely and with courtesy so that the situation would not become worse.
Expressing shock at the resignation of former prime [...]

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