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A former Playboy bunny has embraced Islam, comparing the transition to “rebirth.”

Felixia Yeap announced her conversion to her 835,000 followers on Facebook on July 3, later revealing that she had taken up her new faith at the Taman Tun Dr. Ismail Mosque in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Malaysian authorities on Thursday were searching for 35 people missing at sea following two boat accidents at a time when many illegal migrant workers head home to Indonesia for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
      

SOCAR Turkey, the Azerbaijani energy giant’s Turkish venture, has signed a $3.3 billion credit deal for its STAR refinery project, marking Turkey’s largest and longest-term financing deal for its first privately built oil refinery.

Azeri state oil company SOCAR has signed a $3.29 billion financing deal with 23 banks and export credit agencies for the construction of a refinery on Turkey’s Aegean coast, SOCAR’s Turkish subsidiary Petkim said on May 30.

KRAGUJEVAC - Kragujevac marked on Friday 99 years since the death of Dr Elizabeth Ross and other members of the British medical missions who lost their life while aiding the Serbian people in World War I.