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KUALA LUMPUR: A prosecution witness told the trial of Malaysia's ousted premier Anwar Ibrahim on Monday that computer files containing allegations of sexual misconduct against Anwar were X-rated. Trial resumed after a week-long recess coinciding with the holding of an Asia-Pacific leaders summit in Kuala Lumpur. Zulkifli Mohamad, an officer with the criminal investigation department of the Royal Malaysian Police, told the court he went to the advertising agency office of Ummi Hafilda Ali three days before she was arrested last year. ``The title of the two files on the disk are X-rated and XXX-rated,'' Zulkifli said. He said one of the files was a letter to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad from Ummi, sister of Anwar's private secretary at the time. The other was a statement by Azizan Abu Bakar, Anwar's driver. The two are key prosecution evidence in the trial which began on November 2. Police said they got the couple to retract their statements on orders from Anwar but gave conflicting accounts as towhether they believed the charges.

JAKARTA: The Indonesian capital was tense and under heavy security on Monday and scores of Christian schools were closed after rioting and attacks on Christians which left at least six people dead. Most downtown shops had their shutters pulled down, some with only a crack to allow customers in one at a time, and the troops deployed to keep order were keeping away from the main road, out of sight in alleys. An employee of Bank Niaga, which has an office in the area, said troops were still guarding the Gajah Mada shopping complex next door. The centre escaped the riot unscathed but the shopping complex remained shuttered, as did the office tower above it.

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