News in Brief-(25-5-2018)

King's daughter rubbishes Bannon claim about Trump
WASHINGTON, May 24: The daughter of civil rights icon Martin Luther King has rejected a claim that the civil rights icon would have been "proud of" Donald Trump. Steve Bannon - formerly President Donald Trump's top strategist - told the news agency Mr King would have approved of the US president's economic policies. Bernice King, however, said Mr Bannon had "dangerously and erroneously co-opted my father's name". Instead, she said her father would be "extremely disturbed" by recent events. — BBC
Mother in jail for forcing daughter to marry
LONDON, May 24: A mother who tricked her teenage daughter into travelling to Pakistan to marry an older man was jailed for four and a half years on Wednesday after becoming the first person in England to be convicted of forced marriage. Campaigners said Tuesday's landmark conviction sent a strong message to families planning to coerce their daughters into marriage, and would empower girls to speak out. — Reuters
Suicide bomber kills seven in Baghdad park
BAGHDAD, May 24: A suicide bomber blew himself up late Wednesday at a crowded park in Iraq's capital, killing at least seven people in the first such attack in Baghdad since the start a week ago of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, security officials said. They said police and emergency workers intercepted the bomber as he entered the park in Shoala, a mainly Shiite district in northern Baghdad, but he managed to set off his bomb before being caught. At least 16 people were wounded in the attack. — AP
Malaysia's court sentences Australian woman to death
KUALA LAMPUR, May 24: An Australian woman has been sentenced to death by a Malaysian court after being found guilty of drug trafficking. Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto, 54, was arrested at a Kuala Lumpur airport in 2014 after she was found carrying 1.1kg (2.4lbs) of crystal methamphetamine. The grandmother-of-three was acquitted of all charges in December last year, but the ruling was later overturned after prosecutors appealed. Death by hanging is mandatory for drug trafficking in Malaysia. Exposto was arrested in December 2014 while transiting through Kuala Lumpur en route from Shanghai to Melbourne. — BBC