MALAYSIA FOILS ISLAMIC STATE-LINKED PLOT TO ATTACK HINDU TEMPLES

KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysian police said on Monday they have arrested four militants linked to the Islamic State group who were in possession of explosives and planned to attack non-muslim places of worship. The suspects - a Malaysian who led the group, two Rohingya from Myanmar and one Indonesian - were detained last week in raids around Kuala Lumpur and in eastern Terengganu state. Malaysia’s national police chief Abdul Hamid Bador described them as an “Islamic State cell” and said they planned to “assassinate high-profile individuals and attack Hindu, Christian and Buddhist places of worship in Malaysia”. He did not give any details about who the high-profile individuals were. Police also seized explosives.

Oman announces it will reopen its embassy in Iraq

DUBAI: Oman says it will reopen its embassy in Iraq, decades after it closed its diplomatic post. Oman’s foreign ministry made the announcement on Twitter on Sunday, saying it would “contribute to the development of relations between the two countries”.

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US man wanted by FBI surrenders after 23 years

WASHINGTON: Wayne Arthur Silsbee, 62, an American man wanted by the FBI for “multiple incidents of sexual assault” between September 1995 and April 1996 involving minor girls, walked into the Oregon city police department and turned himself in after 23 years, CNN reported.

Poland cancels Israeli visit amid Holocaust restitution

WARSAW: Poland cancelled a visit by Israeli officials amid concern that talks would focus on the unsettled issue of Jewish property restitution, amid thorny relations between them over the role that Poles played during the Holocaust. BLOOMBERG

Disciplinary trial for officer in ‘I can’t breathe’ death

NEW YORK: A long-delayed disciplinary trial is set to begin for the New York city police officer Daniel Pantaleo accused of using a banned chokehold in the July 2014 death of Eric Garner. Garner’s pleas of “I can’t breathe” became a rallying cry against police brutality.

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Berlin buries Nazi victims’ microscopic remains

BERLIN: Some 300 tiny pieces of human tissue, uncovered on microscopic glass plates by the descendants of the Nazi anatomy professor Hermann Stieve, will be buried on Monday at a Berlin cemetery. The samples are a hundredth of a millimetre thin and about a square centimetre in size each.

11 Thai parties to support army-backed PM candidate

BANGKOK: Eleven small political parties in Thailand have announced they will support the military-backed candidate to form the next government, after no single party won an absolute majority in the March 24 polls. AP