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Mother elephant goes on rampage after lorry fatally NATIONAL
hits calf on East-West Highway Source : The Star Anwar: Asean thrives

on neutrality and global

engagement Source : StraitsTimes

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said Asean’s ability
to maintain neutrality and engage all major
powers without being drawn into geopolitical
rivalry is rooted in mutual respect and inclusive
diplomacy.
This approach, he said, had enabled the
region to remain peaceful and economically
resilient amid rising global tensions. “Asean, as
a whole, adopts a policy of centrality. We trade

IPOH: An elephant calf that the situation was safe. and officers managed to sedate
died after it was hit by a lorry on “However, moments later, a the elephant to bring the
KM80 of the Gerik-Jeli stretch baby elephant suddenly emerged situation under control.
of the East-West Highway on from the forest on the left side “Motorists are advised to
Sunday (May 11), causing its and attempted to cross the road. be extra cautious when driving
mother to go on a rampage and “The short distance made along the East-West Highway,
damaging the front part of the it impossible for the driver to especially in forested areas where
vehicle. stop in time, resulting in a fatal wild animals are known to roam
Gerik OCPD Supt Zulkifli collision. The baby elephant and cross roads,” he said.
Mahmood said the 28-year-old died at the scene,” he said in a
lorry driver was travelling from statement today. with all, and we should be friends with all,”
Gerik heading towards Jeli at Supt Zulkifli said shortly he said during a question-and-answer session
about 2.50am today, when the after that the larger elephant, following his public lecture titled “Asean in a
incident happened. believed to be the mother of Multipolar World: Perspectives from Malaysia”
He said initial investigations the calf, became agitated and at the Moscow State Institute of International
revealed that the driver of the damaged the front of the lorry Relations (MGIMO) on Thursday.
lorry, which was transporting in a fit of rage. He said the Anwar added that Asean must remain
chickens, noticed a large lorry driver did not sustain any confident in charting its path while upholding
elephant on the right shoulder injuries. a consistent foreign policy approach in dealing
of the road. “The driver said the “The police contacted the with the United States (US), China and other
animal was seen grazing, so he Perak Wildlife and National global players. “That is what geopolitical
continued driving when he saw Parks Department (Perhilitan), relations are about – engaging with all,” he said.

Israeli strikes across Gaza kill 80, hospitals and rescuers say

Source : BBC NEWS
At least 80 people have family were killed. “They
been killed in Israeli strikes fired two rockets, they told
across Gaza, hospitals and us the house of Moqbel [had
first responders say. been hit],” he told Reuters
The Indonesian hospital news agency as he clambered
said 22 children and 15 over the destroyed building.
women were among 50 “We came running,
people who died when we saw body parts on the
several homes in the ground, children killed, [a]
northern Jabalia area were woman killed and a baby
hit overnight. Nearby killed... He was two months
al-Awda hospital said it old. ”The director of al-
had received the bodies of Awda hospital said in an
another nine people, seven of audio message that it was
them children. struggling to deal with the
The Israeli military 52 injured people brought
said it struck Hamas and there for treatment after
Palestinian Islamic Jihad the strikes because of the
fighters in the north. It had Tom Fletcher accused violence and displacement” and its refugee camp shortages of medical supplies
warned residents of Jabalia Israel of “deliberately and of Palestinians. reported hearing multiple and fuel for its electricity
and neighbouring areas to unashamedly imposing Israel’s envoy to the UN, explosions overnight, and generators, with the latter
evacuate on Tuesday after inhumane conditions on Danny Danon, said the videos shared by activists forcing the closure of several
rockets were launched into civilians”. accusations were “baseless showed flames lighting up departments.
Israel. He also called on Israel and outrageous”. He insisted the sky. The Hamas-run Civil
It came as the UN’s to lift its 10-week blockade the existing system for aid One video shared online Defence agency reported
humanitarian chief urged on Gaza and criticised the was “broken” because it was showed at least 14 bodies that 80 people had been
members of the UN Security Israeli-US plan to take being used to help Hamas’s wrapped in blankets and killed in Israeli strikes across
Council to take action to over the distribution of war effort - an allegation white shrouds on the floor the territory since dawn,
“prevent genocide” in Gaza. humanitarian aid by using both the UN and the armed of the Indonesian hospital. including 59 in the north.
Speaking at a meeting in private companies, saying group have denied. Hadi Moqbel, 42, said The Israeli military said in
New York on Tuesday, it was a “fig leaf for further Residents of Jabalia town several members of his a statement that it struck.

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