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Malaysia, tensions flare after boat Prince Philip, 97, gives up collision , licence after crash Yemeni conjoined , Malaysian government Avessel has collided with ueen Elizabeth II’s 97-year- a ship in waters disputed Qold husband Prince Philip by Singapore and Malay- on Saturday surrendered his sia, sparking a fresh flare- twins die in driving licence after causing up of maritime tensions on a car crash that outraged the Sunday between the neigh- media and stirred a debate bours. about old age and driving. Malaysian authorities im- Buckingham Palace said pounded the Greek-flagged Philip -- formally known as bulk carrier, the Pireas, and the Duke of Edinburgh -- took detained its crew after the the decision on his own after collision Saturday with the rolling over his Land Rover Malaysian boat Polaris. last month. The neighbours have had “After careful consideration testy relations since Malay- the Duke of Edinburgh has sia evicted the island from taken the decision to volun- the Malaysian Federation tarily surrender his driving in 1965, ending a brief and licence,” Buckingham Palace Prince Philip stormy union of the former said in a brief statement. British colonies. Police in the eastern part of Ties have gone up and where the accident A CPS spokesman said the down over the years but happened outside a royal res- service “will take this develop- have been shaky since Ma- idence said they had passed ment into account” as it stud- laysia’s Mahathir Moham- A doctor cares for conjoined twin boys, Abdelkhaleq and Abdelkarim (file) Philip’s file to prosecutors to ies Philip’s case. ad -- who has long had a determine whether anyone Few royal watchers serious- prickly relationship with Reuters | Dubai and lungs. Health services have col - should be charged. ly expect the duke to be pun- Singapore -- returned to the The head of paediatrics at lapsed as the conflict has “Norfolk Police can confirm ished by the police. premiership with a shock Sanaa’s Al-Thawra hospital, ground on and most hospitals that the 97-year-old driver of A witness told British me- election victory last year. ewborn Yemeni con- Dr Faisal al-Babili, said his de- are not equipped to provide the Land Rover involved in dia that Philip had emerged Maritime tensions began Njoined twins whose plight partment lacked the facilities to specialist treatment for rare the collision at Sandringham unharmed but “shocked and rising late last year when sparked a plea for urgent med- treat or separate the newborn conditions. ... voluntarily surrendered his shaken” from the collision Singapore accused Malay- ical treatment overseas died in boys and appealed on Wednes- Bringing patients out for licence to officers,” said a po- with the much smaller Kia sia of extending its claims Sanaa Saturday. day for help from abroad. treatment poses enormous lice statement. hatchback. in the strait that separates Abdelkhaleq and Abdelra- Late on Wednesday, the head logistical challenges. “The investigation file for Police said a nine-month-old the neighbours into what him were born outside San - of ’s King Salman The government accuses the collision has been passed baby in the back seat of Kia had long been accepted as aa around two weeks ago and Aid and Relief Centre, Abdullah the rebels of smuggling arms to the Crown Prosecution Ser- was uninjured. One woman in the -state’s territorial shared a kidney and a pair of al-Rabeeah, said he had a team through the airport and Hodei- vice (CPS) for their consider- the vehicle broke her wrist and waters. legs but had separate hearts that was prepared to treat them. da -- a rebel-held port city. ation.” the other cut her knee. Mother and child die in French fire Louvre introduces Lyon,

woman and a child were Rembrandt and Vermeer Akilled in a fire in the east- ern city of Lyon believed to have been sparked by a gas blast in a bakery, authorities said. The fire comes days after 10 people were killed in a blaze at a apartment building and a month after a massive gas explosion in the centre of the capital that left four dead in a building that also housed a bakery. The Lyon fire broke out Saturday night after the blast in the bakery on the ground floor of the two-storey building. Firefighters climb a fire ladder to extinguish a fire caused by an explosion in a “Two bodies were found, that bakery in the rue de Vienne, in the south of Lyon of a woman and a child,” Lyon’s public prosecutor Nicolas Jac- his pregnant wife and child Tuesday’s inferno in Paris quet said, adding that police were still inside. Three pas- was started by a resident with were investigating the cause of sersby were also slightly hurt. psychological problems, inves- the blaze. “Blue flames several metres tigators said. The suspect, who Witnesses told AFP that a man high rose up from the bakery is in her 40s, has been charged who suffered minor injuries and engulfed the upper floors,” over the fire, which was the after jumping from the second Chahine Reghi, a man living deadliest in the city in over a floor told the fire service that across the street, said. decade. The Louvre Abu Dhabi, the first museum to carry the famed name outside of France, announced Sunday it would roll out works by Dutch masters Rembrandt and Vermeer this month.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab capital The museum has also ac - building collapse toll rises to 21 Emirates from February 14 to May 18, is quired Rembrandt’s “Head of a , Turkey dedicated to the famed “fijn- young man, with clasped hands: urday, said: “We have a great schilders” -- fine painters -- of Study of the figure of Christ” as number of lessons to learn from he Louvre Abu Dhabi, the the . part of its permanent collection. he death toll from the this. We will take the necessary Tfirst museum to carry the “Rembrandt is a master of The Louvre Abu Dhabi was Tcollapse of an apartment measures.” famed name outside of France, the Golden Age,” museum head inaugurated with great pomp building in Istanbul rose to 21 Interior Minister Suleyman announced yesterday it will roll Manuel Rabate said. in November 2017 -- nearly Saturday, as President Recep Soylu, meanwhile, told report- out works by Dutch masters “He’s a universal genius, he’s five years behind schedule -- Tayyip Erdogan said authorities ers that the toll from the build- Rembrandt and Vermeer this connected to the world.” by French President Emma- have “lessons to learn” from the ing collapse had risen to 21 dead month. Works by the two artists The exhibition features 95 nuel Macron and Abu Dhabi’s incident. and 14 injured. are part of the gallery’s first works, including Vermeer’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin The eight-storey block in “We estimate that there were exhibition this year, entitled “Young Woman Seated at a Vir- Zayed Al-Nahyan. the Kartal district on the Asian 35 people trapped under the “Rembrandt, Vermeer and the ginal” alongside Rembrandt’s The museum has reportedly side of the city collapsed on rubble and we have now ac - Dutch Golden Age: Masterpiec- “Portrait of a Man” and “Study cost the UAE around $1 billion, Wednesday but the cause is not counted for 35,” he said while es from The Leiden collection of the Head and Clasped Hands including upwards of $500 mil- yet clear. Rescuers work at the site of a building stressing that search operations and the Musee du Louvre”. of a Young Man as Christ in to use France’s “Louvre” Erdogan, visiting the site Sat- that collpased in Istanbul’s Kartal would continue as before. The exhibit, on display in the Prayer”. brand.