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# Kuala Lumpur

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# Kuala Lumpur
More than 200 people injured in Malaysia metro train crash
A packed train collided with an empty train heading in the opposite direction.
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May 24th 2021, 7:28 PM
# Nora Quoirin
Missing teenager: Malaysian police say no sign of foul play as authorities search for 15-year-old
The teenager, who is an Irish citizen, went missing during a family holiday.
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Aug 6th 2019, 7:50 AM
# Seremban
Family of Nóra Quoirin 'fear for her safety' as Malaysian police search for missing teenager
Malaysian police are searching for the Irish teenager who went missing from a rainforest resort while on holiday.
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Aug 5th 2019, 11:39 AM
# Touch Rugby
'It's great because you're on an even par with the males when you're playing'
Tania Rosser is part of the Ireland ‘Mixed 30s’ team heading to the Touch World Cup in Malaysia.
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Apr 14th 2019, 7:00 AM
# Kuala Lumpur
Scenes of joy and celebration as Malaysian politician jailed for sodomy is freed
The 70-year-old is expected to become Prime Minister.
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May 16th 2018, 7:29 AM
# Blaze
Fire rips through Malaysian religious school killing 22 teenage boys
Two teachers were also killed.
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Sep 14th 2017, 8:46 AM
# Melbourne
Man who threatened to 'blow up' plane is wrestled to the floor by passengers
Passengers on the Malaysian Airlines flight from Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur said they feared for their lives.
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Jun 1st 2017, 7:52 AM
# Kuala Lumpur
Kim Jong-Nam killing: Two women charged with murder
If the suspects – from Indonesia and Vietnam – are found guilty, they will face death by hanging.
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Feb 28th 2017, 7:04 AM
# cold war kid
Media frenzy and armed special forces as Kim Jong-Nam's son reportedly visits body
North Korea wants Malaysia to hand over the slain man’s body.
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Feb 21st 2017, 9:06 AM
# North Korea
CCTV video emerges of moments surrounding Kim Jong-Nam airport 'poisoning'
The estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un died in Kuala Lumpur airport last Monday.
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Feb 20th 2017, 11:05 AM
# unsolved mystery
The search for missing plane MH370 is being called off, and families of the missing aren't happy
Two years later investigators are no closer to discovering what became of the missing plane.
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Jul 31st 2016, 9:45 AM
# richard huckle
Serial English paedophile, who wrote child abuse 'manual', faces life sentence
Richard Huckle carried out many of his crimes in Malaysia, where he had set himself up as an English teacher.
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Jun 1st 2016, 8:27 PM
# uncharted
After months of mapping mystery part of Indian Ocean, desolate search for MH370 resumes
The area was largely unknown to scientists before the new maps were made.
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Oct 4th 2014, 2:22 PM
# initiative
UCD ladies team set to compete in Asian GAA tournament
The event is a nine-a-side competition covering 200 matches, run over two days.
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Sep 10th 2014, 11:33 AM
# long shot
Have scientists discovered a recorded sound of MH370 crashing into the Indian Ocean?
Australian researchers say it’s unlikely, but they’re investigating it.
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Jun 4th 2014, 4:30 PM
# Malaysia
Australia, Malaysia and China to meet to make sure MH370 search "doesn't stop"
The meeting is to ensure that the search continues and “doesn’t stop at any stage”.
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May 2nd 2014, 8:11 AM
# Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia Airlines flight makes safe emergency landing after a landing gear failure
The plane landed in Kuala Lumpur at 6.56 pm GMT.
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Apr 20th 2014, 9:23 PM
# HMS Tireless
British nuclear sub joins search for MH370 as time is running out to find black box
Despite extensive scouring ships and planes have so far found nothing that would indicate a crash site.
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Apr 2nd 2014, 9:27 AM
# search goes on
122 new objects spotted in the Indian Ocean, but nobody's sure they're MH370
Two objects seen from a civil aircraft appeared to be rope, and that a New Zealand military plane spotted a blue object.
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Mar 26th 2014, 1:14 PM
# search goes on
Terrorism looking less likely as mystery of plane disappearance deepens
The announcement form the internationl police force comes as searches have completely shifted their focus to opposite Malaysian coast.
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Mar 11th 2014, 12:11 PM
# Pollution
State of emergency declared as Kuala Lumpur is engulfed by smog
A smoky haze blamed on Indonesian forest fires has triggered one of the country’s worst pollution levels in years.
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Jun 24th 2013, 7:11 PM
# Apparition
'Virgin Mary' and 'Jesus Christ' attract Catholics to Malaysian hospital
Images of the sight have been posted across Facebook this morning.
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Nov 11th 2012, 10:02 AM
# Anger
Tensions rise over ad that reads "Indonesian maids now on sale!!"
Indonesia had previously banned women from travelling to Malaysia to work as maids due to poor pay and abuse.
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Oct 30th 2012, 2:30 PM
# Protest
Photos: Tear gas used as 25,000 rally for reforms in Malaysia
The protest, one of the largest held in the country in the past decade, was held to demand an overhaul of biased electoral policies.
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Apr 28th 2012, 10:30 AM
# Investigation
FIFA join forces with organised crime informers to fight match-fixing
The organisation’s security director, Chris Eaton, has said they are in the process of “creating a hostile environment for match-fixers”.
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Jan 6th 2012, 3:23 PM
# Malaysia
Police in Malaysia fire tear gas at protesters, arrest 1,667
Malaysia’s biggest political rally in four years has ended with hundreds of arrests, as protesters defied warnings to stay at home and electoral reform.
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Jul 9th 2011, 6:31 PM
LIVE
McIlroy shoots 64 to move into the lead in Malaysia
A bogey-free round of eight-under sees him tied at the top with first-round leader Alexander Noren.
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Apr 15th 2011, 10:42 AM
LIVE
McIlroy shakes off Masters hangover with solid start in Malaysia
An opening round of three-under par leaves the young Ulsterman in a tie for ninth place.
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Apr 14th 2011, 12:30 PM