July 3rd, 2018 - Daily News Brief

Daily News Brief

Najib arrested Malaysian anti-graft investigators have arrested former prime minister Najib Razak. They said Najib is being investigated over alleged corruption at the 1MDB state investment fund. They're specifically looking at the transfer of more than 10 million US dollars into the former prime minister's bank account. Najib is expected to be formally charged on Wednesday. Boys found Thai rescue teams are trying to work out how to free 12 boys and their football coach who have been trapped in a cave for ten days. They were found late Monday night. The army says the group may have to stay where they are for several months - UNLESS they learn to dive. It's planning to supply them with four months worth of food - and will begin teaching them to dive. Priest sentenced In Australia, Archbishop Philip Wilson has been sentenced to 12 months detention for covering up child sex abuse. He's the most senior Roman Catholic cleric in the world to be convicted of an abuse-related offence. Wilson was found guilty of FAILING to report to police the repeated abuse of two altar boys by a paedophile priest in the 1970s. Sisi's coup It's been five years today since the military coup in Egypt on July 3rd, 2013. Army chief Abdel Fattah el Sisi ousted the country's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, jailed him and declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation. Now, even some of Sisi's former supporters say he's failed to deliver. The president's economic reforms have hit poor and middle-class Egyptians especially hard. And calls for Sisi to resign are growing. Japan shocker And finally, Belgium is through to the quarter-finals of the World Cup after coming from 2-0 down to beat Japan 3-2. Brazil are also through, after beating Mexico 2-0 in Monday's other game. Today's knockout action sees Sweden facing Switzerland, and England against Colombia.