Lebanon no longer a safe haven for former Syrian regime officials

A former Vietnamese politician unintentionally killed a ⁠teenager in a traffic accident in central Hanoi last year but was exempted from criminal prosecution, a police officer told state television, shedding light for the first time on a case that has fuelled criticism online for months. The interview was broadcast on Monday evening, days after people began leaving flowers at the site ‌where the accident occurred last May, in what dissident and youth groups described as an act of protest in the...

A father and his two daughters died after an Immigration Department truck allegedly ran a red light and triggered a series of crashes in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur early on Wednesday. Preliminary investigations found that the empty truck, driven by a 43-year-old man, was headed to Chow Kit district at about 1am to pick up undocumented migrants detained in an operation, said Kuala Lumpur Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Zamzuri Mohd...

A former US State Department advisor on Syria tells Al Jazeera’s ‘This is America’ the improved relationship