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Meet Lengkok Bahru’s young neighbourhood patrol: 4 primary school boys on a mission

(From left) Didie Andiqa Muhaimin, 14, Rafieq Sahin Rafizal, 12, Al-Mirza Danish, 12, and Aaron Sarandev, 11, make up the Emergency Response Team LB (Lengkok Bahru), patrolling their neighbourhood every day to keep it safe.
(From left) Didie Andiqa Muhaimin, 14, Rafieq Sahin Rafizal, 12, Al-Mirza Danish, 12, and Aaron Sarandev, 11, make up the Emergency Response Team LB (Lengkok Bahru), patrolling their neighbourhood every day to keep it safe.

The people killed by US immigration agents during Trump’s second term

Photographs of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Johan Sebastian Guerrero, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti, who were killed by U.S. immigration agents, are displayed during a vigil held by Valerie Araujo and community members with The ReMIX Way outside the Southeast Community Center in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., July 16, 2026. Nicole Hester/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images via REUTERS
Photographs of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Johan Sebastian Guerrero, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti, who were killed by U.S. immigration agents, are displayed during a vigil held by Valerie Araujo and community members with The ReMIX Way outside the Southeast Community Center in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., July 16, 2026. Nicole Hester/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images via REUTERS

Taiwan must heed calls to share responsibility for ‘collective defence’, president says

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te speaks in front of a Teng Yun unmanned aerial vehicle during a visit to the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) to inspect developments in drone technology in Taichung, Taiwan, July 17, 2026. REUTERS/Ann Wang
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te speaks in front of a Teng Yun unmanned aerial vehicle during a visit to the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) to inspect developments in drone technology in Taichung, Taiwan, July 17, 2026. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Guterres to travel to Cyprus to advance peace efforts, UN says

FILE PHOTO: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to delegates during a meeting on Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., April 27, 2026. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to delegates during a meeting on Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., April 27, 2026. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo

Maine Democrats, rattled by Platner's downfall, protest fatal ICE shooting

Demonstrators march a day after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent killed a driver in the coastal Maine town of Biddeford, in Portland, Maine, U.S., July 14, 2026. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Demonstrators march a day after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent killed a driver in the coastal Maine town of Biddeford, in Portland, Maine, U.S., July 14, 2026. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Gunmen kill at least 18 people in Nigeria's Benue state, residents say

Table tennis-Governing body clears Russian players to return to international competition

Pickleball court or rock-climbing wall? Spottiswoode estate renewal proposals ready for voting

Tanjong Pagar GRC MP Foo Cexiang at the Spottiswoode Park at the amphitheatre on July 11.
Tanjong Pagar GRC MP Foo Cexiang at the Spottiswoode Park at the amphitheatre on July 11.

Is youth hub *Scape still cool?

Some youth prefer to hang out on the swings outside *Scape.
Some youth prefer to hang out on the swings outside *Scape.

UK loses case over asylum seeker rejections linked to migrant deal with France

A man jumps into the water from an inflatable dinghy as a group of migrants leave the coast of northern France in an attempt to cross the English Channel to reach Britain as tougher migration controls were announced, from the beach of Petit-Fort-Philippe in Gravelines, near Calais, France, July 17, 2025. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
A man jumps into the water from an inflatable dinghy as a group of migrants leave the coast of northern France in an attempt to cross the English Channel to reach Britain as tougher migration controls were announced, from the beach of Petit-Fort-Philippe in Gravelines, near Calais, France, July 17, 2025. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

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