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BELGRADE: Turkey’s President on Tuesday said that neither he nor his government recognized the United States ambassador to Ankara following the suspension of nonmigration visas for Turkish nationals. SHAH ALAM: Footage of the North Korean leader’s halfbrother being wheeled out of a Malaysian airport on a stretcher after being poisoned was shown at the trial of his alleged killers on Wednesday.
Video from airport security cameras also showed Kim Jong-nam having difficulty walking after the attack, and footage of two women who allegedly murdered him fleeing the scene.
Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong and Indonesian Siti Aisyah are accused of mur- dering Kim on February 13 by rubbing the nerve agent VX on his face in a Cold War-style hit that stunned the world.
Police told the court he had been carrying the equivalent
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The women, who were arrested a few days afterwards and face death by hanging if convicted, have pleaded not guilty to killing the estranged half-brother of Kim Jong-un at the airport near the capital Kuala Lumpur.
The defendants say they were duped into believing they were taking part in a prank for a reality TV show, and their lawyers blame North Korean agents for the assassination.
On Wednesday, the Shah Alam High Court outside the capital was shown footage of Kim being accompanied by airport staff to an on-site medical clinic after the attack.
At first he looked fine and was walking normally but later footage showed him taking small steps and staggering.
He was then shown lying on a wheeled stretcher, with some sort of breathing equipment attached to his face and surrounded by paramedics.
The paramedics are seen treating him in a corridor before he is wheeled into an elevator. HEALDSBURG: A series of deadly Northern California wildfires regained momentum on Wednesday as winds whipped back up, pushing blazes through parched hills and vineyards and prompting additional evacuations from an arc of flames that has killed at least 17 people, destroyed more than 2,000 buildings and battered the region’s renowned wine-growing industry.
Local officials ordered a fresh round of mandatory evacuations in flame-battered Sonoma County, where at least 11 people have died and about 180 remain missing. One of the massive fires that has been ravaging the region since Sunday advanced overnight toward populated areas, prompting the additional evacuations, Sonoma County Deputy Sheriff Brandon Jones said.
The two biggest wine-country fires, known as Tubbs and Atlas, grew overnight as conditions worsened and had torched a combined 54,000 acres by Wednesday morning, according to Cal Fire.
The fast-moving flames have swept through densely populated neighborhoods in California’s wine country over the past two days, causing residents to flee from homes in the middle of the night as smoke filled their rooms.
One couple had to jump into their pool as flames rushed across their land, taking occasional gasps for air as flames lapped at their backs.
High winds that whipped up 17 large fires had faded earlier Tuesday and humidity increased, assisting an operation that has drawn resources from throughout the state and neighboring Nevada. But officials warned that the sharp northern wind, known as a Diablo, would return, allowing only a brief window for firefighters to carve clearings in place to stop the fires from spreading to vulnerable populated areas.
That wind returned Tuesday night, along with lower humidity levels.
The National Weather Service expects these “redflag” conditions — including wind gusts up to 40 mph — to remain until Thursday in the North Bay Area, which includes Sonoma and Napa counties. COLOMBO: The elder son of former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa has been arrested along with two other parliamentarians for protesting outside the Indian consulate in Hambantota over the proposed lease of an airport to an Indian company.
The members of the Joint Opposition backing ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa staged the demonstration to protest the Sri Lankan government’s deal with India to handover the Mattala Mahinda Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) in Hambantota in the country’s Southern Province.
This was a major infrastructure project of Rajapaksa during his presidency with loan support coming from China.
Namal Rajapaksa and six other protestors were summoned by the Hambantota police last night to record a statement over the violence at the demonstration, police said.
They have been accused of causing damage to public property, unlawful assembly and defying a court order not to hold demonstrations in the Hambantota judicial area.
They were produced before the Hambantota magistrate and ordered to be remanded until October 16 at the Tangalle remand prison, the police added.
“We recorded statements from organisers and taken those responsible into custody,” a police spokesman said.
The number of people arrested since Friday over the incident now has risen to 40.
The Opposition said they stand opposed to the selling of state assets by the government to foreign entities.