LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s much-maligned multi-billion pound COVID-19 test-and-trace system has improved, but is still missing targets and the results of millions of tests to find asymptomatic cases have not been reported, parliament’s spending watchdog said on Friday. The programme, which was given a 22 billion pound ($30.6 billion) budget, was launched by Prime Minister
GIBRALTAR (Reuters) – Gibraltarians voted in a referendum on Thursday on whether the tiny British territory on the southern tip of Spain should ease one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. Its criminal law bans abortion in all circumstances, with a maximum punishment in theory of life in prison. While no one has been
JOHOR BARU: The Johor royal family continues to push for all Johoreans to be vaccinated. The latest to make the call was Tunku Mahkota Johor Tunku Ismail Ibni Sultan Ibrahim, who visited the Mega Vaccination Centre (PPV) at Persada Johor Convention Centre on Thursday (June 24), to observe the operation of the Covid-19 vaccination programme.
(Corrects spelling of Lula’s name in first paragraph) BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday confirmed its earlier ruling that a lower court judge had failed to treat ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva fairly in graft probes, a decision that could lead other cases against the left-wing leader to be thrown out. With
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Antivirus creator John McAfee, 75, was found dead in his prison cell in Barcelona after the Spanish high court had authorised his extradition to the U.S., the Catalan justice department said, confirming an earlier report from El Mundo newspaper. Everything points it could be a death by suicide, the department said in
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union is considering 3.5 billion euros ($4.18 billion) for Turkey to continue hosting Syrian refugees until 2024, two diplomats said on Wednesday, part of a bigger regional refugee support plan to stop migrants reaching the bloc. The total 5.77 billion euro package for Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, which goes
Google faces a sweeping European Union probe into its advertising technology, a move that strikes at the heart of the tech giant’s business model. The European Commission said on June 22 its new confrontation with the Alphabet Inc unit will focus on concerns the company may be illegally favouring its own online display advertising technologies,
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a group of indigenous people protesting on Tuesday outside Brazil’s Congress against a bill lawmakers were about to debate that would undermine recognition of protected reservation lands. The protesters, among them children and elderly people, ran for cover, many coughing their way
LONDON (Reuters) – Some 41 million people worldwide are at at imminent risk of famine, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday, saying soaring prices for basic foods were compounding existing pressures on food security. Another half a million are already experiencing famine-like conditions, said the WFP’s Executive Director David Beasley. “We
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran accused the United States on Tuesday of interference for saying its presidential election on Friday was neither free or fair, Iranian state media reported. A U.S. State Department spokesman said on Monday the United States viewed the process that made Ebrahim Raisi Iran’s president-elect as “pretty manufactured”, reiterating the U.S. view
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The Federal Territories Ministry is looking into giving assessment rebates to ratepayers in Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan, to help ease their burden. Its Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa (pic) said for now, he has decided that the assessment bill payment can be made in installments and anyone who had been late
BAMAKO (Reuters) – A suicide bomber in a car attacked a French reconnaissance mission in central Mali on Monday, wounding some of the soldiers and local residents, the French army said. The French military did not say how many were hurt, but the mayor of the town of Gossi, where the attack happened, said he
BATROUN, Lebanon (Reuters) – While businesses across Lebanon are fighting to survive a monumental economic meltdown, the coastal city of Batroun is thriving as a tourist destination for Lebanese whose summer plans have been scuppered by the crisis and the pandemic. Crowds stroll along Batroun’s streets and visit its historical sites, others sunbathe on beaches
AS a rookie reporter jumping into the job at The Star more than 35 years ago, the first thing the news editor sent me out for was to cover the courts. I had to learn the basic laws, he said. I also had to be accurate in my reporting because there was nothing worse than
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil recorded 44,178 additional confirmed cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 1,025 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. Brazil has registered more than 17.9 million cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 501,825, according to ministry data. (Reporting by
HANOI (Reuters) – Myanmar junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has left the Southeast Asian country to attend a conference in Moscow, state media reported on Sunday. Min Aung Hlaing will attend Russia’s Moscow Conference on International Security, scheduled to be held from June 22-24, Myanmar military-controlled television network MRTV reported on Sunday. (Reporting
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): All office-bearers in the PKR Central Leadership Council (MPP) and branch committees for the term 2018-2021 will remain in office until the next party elections, says Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail. The party secretary-general said this was one of the two motions approved at the PKR 2020 Annual National Congress Sunday (June
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s airlines and holiday companies are planning a “day of action” on Wednesday to ramp up pressure on the government to ease travel restrictions, with just weeks to go before the start of the peak summer season. Travel companies, whose finances have been stretched to breaking point during the pandemic, are desperate
PUTRAJAYA (Bernama): The Health Ministry is studying whether the time interval for the second AstraZeneca vaccine dose can be shortened from 12 weeks to six weeks, says Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba (pic). He said this would depend on expert reports on the Covid-19 situation in the country, whether the vaccine recipients require
KUANTAN (Bernama): The National Recovery Plan tabled by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin on Tuesday (June 15), was not drafted or implemented hastily, says Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah (pic). The Communications and Multimedia Minister said the plan, comprising four phases from June to the end of this year, was carefully worked out as an extension
PETALING JAYA: Iron and steel hardware dealers, stockists and wholesalers should be allowed to operate during the lockdown period, says the Federation of Malaysia Hardware, Machinery & Building Materials Dealers’ Association (FMHMBA). President Datuk Eric Koh said more than 80% of the association’s 3,000 members nationwide are small and medium enterprises and have been badly
CARACAS (Reuters) – A committee of Venezuelan opposition politicians will travel to Washington and Brussels to seek support and consult its allies on their positions about an eventual lifting of sanctions, opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Friday. Guaido told reporters that the committee traveling to the United States and Europe is the same group
PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has identified 23 more Covid-19 clusters nationwide, of which 17 are workplace outbreaks. Of the 17 workplace clusters, nine are outbreaks at factories. One of them is the Industri Jalan Mawar cluster in Melaka, where 47 cases were detected among workers of a factory at Machap Umboo in Alor Gajah. Its
SEREMBAN (Bernama): The case of celebrity couple Noor Neelofa Mohd Noor and her husband Muhammad Haris Mohd Ismail – who have been charged with violating standard operating procedures (SOPs) of the conditional movement control order has been postponed to July 15. Their lawyer M. Haresh said that case management was supposed to resume next Wednesday
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranians choose a president on Friday in a contest likely to be won by a judge fiercely loyal to the religious establishment, although large numbers of people are expected to ignore the vote due to discontent with economic hardship and hardline rule. With uncertainty surrounding Iran’s efforts to revive its 2015 nuclear
PETALING JAYA: The Government may need to study what type of assistance and packages that are needed to be rolled out when Malaysia transitions into phase two of the National Recovery Plan (NRP). National Budget director Datuk Johan Mahmood Merican said there may be a need for the Finance Ministry and other government agencies to
KOTA BHARU (Bernama): The government will be supplying the Covid-19 CanSino vaccine to Kelantan in July to vaccinate residents living in the interior including Orang Asli. National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme coordinating minister Khairy Jamaluddin (pic) however said the total number of vaccine doses to be distributed to Kelantan will be announced later after the government
On the streets of tech-savvy South Korea, the latest and most cutting-edge gadgets flash in people’s hands the instant they become available. Less visible are miniature spy cams that in recent years have led to a reckoning over Internet-based sex crimes that have devastated women’s lives, spurred scandals and ignited massive offline protests. The cameras
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Senior Minister (Works) Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof has described the National Recovery Plan as the best approach to take the country out of the Covid-19 pandemic. He said protecting the lives and ensuring the people’s livelihoods were the government’s priority in implementing the strategy, as emphasised by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative alliance has extended its lead over the Greens, two polls showed on Wednesday, as the ecologists’ campaign to take the chancellery for the first time stumbles ahead of September’s federal election. The Greens surged ahead of the conservatives in polls in late April after they picked Annalena Baerbock
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