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                                <title><![CDATA[ 'They threw me in death row, it didn't break me’ ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Execution season in Singapore as another Malaysian set to face hangman at Changi Prison ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Madani government's final nail in Pannir Selvam's coffin ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 06:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ On eve of execution, Malaysian inmate to file suit against Putrajaya over failure to probe new evidence ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Another Malaysian to be executed by Singapore amid troubling questions over real culprit behind drugs ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 05:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ 'Flawed, incomplete and full of gaps': Court urged to throw out case against Yusoff Rawther ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 11:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Defence cites similar cases in the past in which the prosecution's failure to link illegal items to the accused led to acquittals. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Anwar told to respond to damning allegations implicating him, Farhash in Yusoff Rawther trial ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ A Bersatu leader has urged the prime minister to break his silence on allegations that he entrapped his former research assistant. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Police witness agrees items could have been planted in Yusoff Rawther's car before raid ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The trial of Anwar Ibrahim's former staff continues with a witness being questioned on the claim of entrapment allegedly involving two close aides of the prime minister. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Access to Yusoff Rawther's car dominates trial as defence cites CID chief on tech-driven auto theft ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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