KUALA LUMPUR: MIC has not been informed as yet of any postponement of its party chief’s audience with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong scheduled for Thursday (Oct 15), says Tan Sri SA Vigneswaran (pic). However, the MIC president said it may be futile as Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has not provided the names of
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden maintained a significant lead over President Donald Trump in Michigan, but the two candidates were neck and neck in North Carolina, Reuters/Ipsos opinion polls showed on Tuesday. Reuters/Ipsos is polling likely voters in six states – Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Florida and Arizona – that will
LONDON (Reuters) – The United Nations World food programme (WFP) will need to raise$6.8 billion over the next six months to avert famine amid the current COVID-19 crisis, the agency said on Tuesday. The WFP, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last week for its efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a
BERLIN (Reuters) – Turkey should refrain from provocation in a gas dispute in the eastern Mediterranean, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Tuesday, adding Germany stood in solidarity with Cyprus and Greece as EU partners. “Ankara must end the interplay between detente and provocation if the government is interested in talks – as it
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has tested negative for COVID-19 and he is not infectious to others, the White House physician said on Monday, 10 days after Trump announced he had contracted the coronavirus. In a memo released by the White House just hours before Trump was due to resume holding campaign rallies,
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The risk of COVID-19 hung over Monday’s opening of Amy Coney Barrett’s U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, with the Senate hearing room including at least one lawmaker who tested positive for the disease as well as the judge’s seven children. President Donald Trump formally nominated Barrett at a packed Sept. 26 White
KOTA KINABALU: An elderly man was killed while two others sustained burns in a fire at the Kepayan low-cost housing area on Monday (Oct 12). The remains of the 65-year-old victim, Liew Han Chong, was found in the second-floor bathroom of his semi-concrete house following the midnight blaze. It is believed he was trying to
(Reuters) – Twitter on Sunday flagged a tweet by Donald Trump in which the U.S. President claimed he was immune to the coronavirus, saying it violated the social media platform’s rules about misleading information related to COVID-19. “A total and complete sign off from White House Doctors yesterday. That means I can’t get it (immune),
KOTA KINABALU: Two Parti Warisan Sabah assemblymen from Semporna – Datuk Jaujan Sambakong (pic, left) and Manis Muka Mohd Dara – have so far tested negative for Covid-19. However, Jaujan said his son tested Covid-19 positive and was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital I here. “Except for one of my sons who tested positive,
PETALING JAYA: Police here have arrested six suspects for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol during a recent anti-drink driving operation. The Op Alkohol and crime prevention operations carried out on Friday (Oct 9) and Saturday (Oct 10) from 11pm to 3am were conducted in several locations under the jurisdiction of the Petaling Jaya
(Reuters) – New cases of COVID-19 in the United States hit a two-month high on Friday with over 58,000 infections of the coronavirus reported and hospitalizations in the Midwest at record levels for a fifth day in a row, according to a Reuters analysis. Ten of the 50 states reported record one-day rises in cases
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): A total of 475 medical and public health personnel of various categories and service schemes have been deployed to several districts in Sabah as of Saturday (Oct 10), says Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said the Health Ministry (MoH) has mobilised relief teams to Tawau, Lahad Datu, Semporna,
DHAKA (Reuters) – Protests rocked Bangladesh on Saturday as hundreds of people took to the streets to demand justice after a series of rapes and sexual assaults that have spurred the government to seek capital punishment for offenders. Such incidents have surged in Bangladesh in recent years, with gang rapes accounting for more than a
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Armenia and Azerbaijan had agreed to a ceasefire, starting from 12:00 on Saturday, to exchange prisoners and bodies of those killed in the conflict. Lavrov made the statement after 10-hour-long talks with his Armenian and Azeri counterparts in Moscow around 3:00 in the morning local time.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (Reuters) – The streets in this southwest Louisiana city were deserted on Friday as Hurricane Delta approached, threatening to add misery to people struggling to recover from the damage inflicted by a hurricane less than two months ago. Delta was a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale early Friday, packing winds
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia confirmed 354 new Covid-19 infections on Friday (Oct 9), continuing a downward trend of cases for the third day straight. At a press conference broadcasted live from home quarantine, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said 274 of the cases were detected in Sabah, while the second highest state is Selangor
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Koreans wearing medical masks have gathered in the capital of Pyongyang, state media reported this week, ahead of what is expected to be a big military parade on Saturday, possibly featuring the country’s latest ballistic missiles. The holiday marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers’ Party of
LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia declared a state of disaster due to wildfires ravaging forested and agricultural areas in the eastern part of the country, President Jeanine Anez said on Thursday. In 2019, wildfires destroyed more than 6 million hectares in the Bolivian Amazon. So far this year 1.1 million hectares have burned, according to
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): A total of 266 out of 274 areas in the Petaling, Hulu Langat, Kuala Langat, Sepang and Putrajaya received full water supply with the percentage of restoration at 97% until 6pm Thursday (Oct 8) Air Selangor Sdn Bhd corporate communications head Elina Basri in a statement said Air Selangor is currently taking
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine registered a record 5,397 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the national security council said on Thursday, up from a previous record of 4,753 new cases reported on Wednesday. The council said a total of 244,734 cases had been registered in Ukraine as of Oct. 8, with 4,690 deaths, including
OTTAWA, Oct. 7 (Xinhua)– Canada’s daily case counts continue to increase steeply, with an average of 2,052 new cases being reported daily during the most recent seven days, said Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer on Wednesday. That represents an increase of 40 percent from the previous week. Canada is also seeing an upward
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization is concerned about spikes in COVID-19 cases spikes in countries that had managed outbreaks effectively, such as Cuba and Jamaica, and 11 Caribbean states that have moved from moderate to intense transmission, its regional director Carissa Etienne said on Wednesday. The good news is that rates of severe
KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait’s crown prince in waiting, Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, is a forceful figure who steered clear of political battles and public roles and spent much of his career helping build the Gulf Arab state’s security and defence apparatus. Close to the late emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad and new ruler Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad,
PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian-born couple and their three-year old son were found dead in their London flat on Tuesday (Oct 6), reported the BBC. Poorna Kaameshwari Sivaraj, 36, and her son Kailash Kuha Raj were found dead at the scene, with Scotland Yard believing that both had been dead for some time, the BBC said.
(Reuters) – The UK government will not announce an anticipated plan to introduce COVID-19 testing for international arrivals until November, and instead the government will set up a global travel taskforce, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/06/no-covid-testing-decision-for-international-arrivals-before-november reported Tuesday. The government is planning to announce the launch of the taskforce, set up at the request of Prime Minister
ABUJA (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children with mental health conditions are living chained up in roughly 60 countries, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. Without mental health support or awareness, families or institutions shackle people against their will – often believing their condition is because they are bewitched, possessed or
SIBU: Despite an increase in the latest number of Sarawakians being made permanent medical officers in the state, the Health Ministry has been urged to more than double the allocation. Sarawakians should get 90% of the 150 medical officer positions in health offices and facilities in the state instead of just 44%, noted SUPP education
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief and ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, slammed the Palestinian leadership for criticizing the decision of some Gulf states to normalise ties with Israel. In an interview with Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television aired on Monday, the prince labelled the Palestinian authorities’ criticism
MOSCOW (Reuters) – When state workers accompanied by police painted over opposition graffiti on a wall in a Minsk courtyard in August, local residents swiftly painted it back. The mural of two DJs who took part in protests against President Alexander Lukashenko has been erased and repainted more than a dozen times since then, a
KYIV (Reuters) – The daily number of new coronavirus cases in Ukraine could exceed 5,000 later this week, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said on Monday. Ukraine reported a record of 4,661 new cases on Saturday, but the number fell to 4,140 cases on Sunday and 3,774 on Monday. “The situation is tense but not critical,”
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