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Malaysian police investigating the killing of the halfbrother of North Korea’s leader arrested two women in connection with the spy novel-style assassination that Seoul said was carried out by Pyongyang agents. A woman with an Indonesian passport was taken into custody on Thursday and was being quizzed along with a 28-year-old Vietnamese woman detained on Wednesday. Detectives are still trying to get to the bottom of the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged playboy brother of Kim Jong-un. South Korean intelligence chiefs say he was poisoned by North Korean agents as he walked through Kuala Lumpur International Airport on his way to board a flight for Macau. The portly 45-year-old reportedly had some kind of liquid sprayed in his face after being set upon by two women. He was rushed to a local hospital but died en route. Results of an autopsy, conducted over the objections of North Korean officials, are awaited.