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Malaysia’s top prosecutor has cleared Prime Minister Najib Razak of corruption in a long-running financial scandal that has gripped the nation. The attorney-general’s office said the $681m (£479m) that Mr Najib received in his bank account was a personal donation from the Saudi royal family. Critics had alleged the money came from state-owned investment fund 1MDB. Mr Najib has consistently ...

Police are searching for survivors after a boat capsized off the coast of Malaysia, killing at least 13 people, officials say. Police say the bodies of nine women and four men were found washed up on a beach in Johor state early on Tuesday. Those on board were thought to be illegal migrants or workers from Indonesia, they added. Thousands ...

Sweden’s prime minister has described as a “terrible crime” the stabbing of a 22-year-old female employee at a centre for young asylum seekers. Prime Minister Stefan Lofven visited the centre for unaccompanied migrants in Molndal, near Gothenburg, hours after the killing. An asylum seeker of 15 was arrested on suspicion of murder. The victim has been named locally as Alexandra ...

Four people have been killed and at least two others injured in shootings at a school and a property in northern Canada that prime minister Justin Trudeau described as “every parent’s worst nightmare”. The gunman is suspected of first shooting his two brothers at home before opening fire at the remote community high school in La Loche, Saskatchewan, a family ...

Four people have been killed and at least two others injured in shootings at a school and a property in northern Canada that prime minister Justin Trudeau described as “every parent’s worst nightmare”. The gunman is suspected of first shooting his two brothers at home before opening fire at the remote community high school in La Loche, Saskatchewan, a family ...

From the deep south to New York City, a powerful, far-reaching winter stormspread snow, ice, accidents, injuries and deaths on Saturday, as it continued a path north-east. Since Friday, an estimated 50 million people in 2o states have heard winter weather warnings, watches or advisories. Early Saturday morning, the blizzard moved into some of the nation’s largest cities, with gale-force ...

Politicians and business leaders gathering in the Swiss Alps this week face an increasingly divided world, with the poor falling further behind the super-rich and political fissures in the United States, Europe and the Middle East running deeper than at any time in decades. Just 62 people, 53 of them men, own as much wealth as the poorest half of ...

Iran is set to flood the oil market with an extra half a million barrels a day after international sanctions were lifted in a move that has been hailed by the country’s president as a “golden page” in its history. President Hassan Rouhani said the deal “opened new windows of engagement with the world” and the country should “get ready ...

Tsai Ing-Wen has been elected as Taiwan’s first female president. The 59-year-old secured a decisive margin in a landmark election which could disrupt relations with Beijing. Ing-Wen is leader of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) which favours independence from China. After eight years of the pro-China Kuomintang (KMT) party, Ing-Wen’s victory signals a welcome breath of fresh air for many ...

China’s former deputy national police chief Li Dongsheng has been jailed for 15 years for corruption offences, according to state media. Li had ties to Zhou Yongkang, jailed for life in June in one of China’s biggest ever corruption scandals. The sentence was reported on an official China Central Television social media account. The former deputy security minister stood accused ...