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some senior citizens were heard asking Teo when he introduced newcomer Dr Faisal to them.

During a doorstop, SM Teo said a strong PAP team is being fielded in Aljunied to offer voters there a choice.

The PAP team will be up against WP incumbent MPs Singh, Sylvia Lim, Gerald Giam and new faces Fadli Fawzi and Kenneth Tiong.

In GE2020, the WP team of Singh, Lim, Faisal, Giam and Perera claimed Aljunied GRC with 85,603 votes (59.93 per cent).

SEOUL - South Korea's former president Moon Jae-in said on Friday (April 25) that prosecutors were becoming political and abusing their power and that his indictment on bribery charges was a good example.

Moon said the indictment against him was unfair and accused the prosecutors of pursuing the case in a predetermined direction.

Lee was indicted for bribery and breach of trust in the case, according to the statement.

Prosecutors referenced previous bribery cases involving former presidents Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak, both of whom were convicted and jailed, as precedents for Moon's indictment.

But come Polling Day on May 3, some of you — more specifically those voting under Radin Mas SMC and Mountbatten SMC — might see something a little different on your ballot papers.

Independent candidates Darryl Lo for Radin Mas SMC and Jeremy Tan for Mountbatten SMC have selected a duck and a dog as their respective symbols.

The duck and dog symbols representing the only two independent candidates for GE2025 were not included in the original list.

In a Reddit thread posted on r/Singapore, netizens also commented on the new symbols — several gushing over how cute they are.

Palisa stressed it was early days for the scheme, which was initially confined to six brigades before expansion to 24.

The numbers so far provide scant respite for Ukraine's defence forces, which are outnumbered by Russia after three years of war that has killed and injured hundreds of thousands.

As a new father dreaming of buying an apartment for his family, Broshkov was also attracted by the financial terms of the recruitment scheme, which was launched in February targeting 18 to 24-year-olds who are prepared to fill fighting roles.

The youth recruitment scheme marks a departure from the forced mobilization, which was hampered by public mistrust, and is part of a broader drive to make the military more professional and sustainable, officials say.

Hugh Grant has blasted "pathetic" schools and called for a ban on laptops and tablets in the classroom.

Hugh - who has five children ranging in age from six to 15 - said parents feared "rocking the boat".

He explained: "I don't think politicians ever do anything because it's the right thing to do, even if it's the right thing to do to protect children.

He also blasted the "kind of ridiculous posh private schools" he sends his children to for restricting outdoor play, saying: "They're the ones saying they're not going to play outside.

A succession of Polish governments has demanded access to the sites in western Ukraine once part of Poland and where Polish officials say more than 100,000 people were killed.

Donald Tusk's pro-EU government was given a green light by Kyiv to carry out search and exhumation of the remains of Polish victims in November last year.

The work at the Puzniki site is aimed at exhuming the remains of the victims, identifying them and burying them, the Polish Ministry of Culture said.

Poland's deputy prime minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz called on Ukraine to allow further such work.

SYDNEY - Thousands gathered across Australia and New Zealand on Friday (April 25) for Anzac Day, a public holiday commemorating military service members who fought and died during wartime.

Today, Anzac Day honours all Australian and New Zealand troops who have served in conflict.

Other major services marking the day, a nationwide public holiday, were held at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, as well as in state capitals Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide and Hobart.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, at Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey for Anzac Day, said he had visited battlefields and cemeteries in the area where around 2,800 New Zealanders died during the failed campaign.

Their quandary concerns Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who in December 2023 was sentenced to 5-1/2 years in jail.

Becciu says his status has changed since that night in 2020 when the pope punished him.

Most cardinals entering the Vatican for the General Congregations have not spoken to reporters or have declined to discuss the Becciu issue.

"It will be my brother cardinals who will decide," Becciu told Reuters, referring to all the roughly 250 prelates, including electors and non-electors - who will take part in the General Congregations before the conclave.

MEXICO CITY - Gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed two members of a civil search organisation that discovered a now-infamous site known as Mexico's "ranch of horror," the group and authorities said on Thursday (April 24).

The Jalisco state prosecutor's office, however, ruled out a connection to the search group in its statement.

Their deaths follow the killing of another member of the search group.

Members of search groups for missing family members often receive threats, which rights groups allege largely come from the criminal groups responsible for their disappearances.

A classmate of the boy told reporters that the attacker had expressed Nazi sympathies.

What we heard is that he wanted to bring back the Nazi ideas of Hitler," she told reporters outside the school.

The classmate also said that shortly before the attack, the attacker had sent a long email to the entire school.

"The general climate of laxism and a lack of order and hierarchy is what leads to this kind of violence," he told reporters in Nantes.