MALAYSIA: Police in Malaysian say they have rescued 187 more children and raided locations nationwide as part of investigations into an Islamic business group.

Police chief Razarudin Husain said the children and young people — including 59 under age 5 — were rescued from welfare homes linked to Global Ikhwan Services and Business (GISB) holdings, which is being investigated for alleged child sexual abuse. 

The number of children who have now been rescued has risen to 572 since the case against GISB erupted earlier this month, he said. 

GREECE: Three people have died and another five were rescued after a boat carrying migrants ran into trouble off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Samos, a coastguard has said.

The coastguard said it was unclear how many people had been on board the boat, believed to have been a dinghy, or how the boat encountered difficulties.

LITHUANIA: The Lithuanian government has signed a deal with a United States ammunition producer as it seeks to increase defence capabilities in the shadow of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte and Steve O’Bryan, Northrop Grumman’s vice president, met in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius to formalise the agreement on the development, production and supply of medium-calibre ammunition in the southernmost Baltic country.

IRAN: Rescuers have recovered the bodies of more workers killed in an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran, bringing the death toll to at least 38, officials said.

Another 14 miners are still believed to be trapped.

The blast struck the coal mine in Tabas, about 335 miles south-east of the capital, Tehran, on Saturday night.