PETALING JAYA: Umno will organise the state-level Unity Government convention beginning January next year to strengthen political cooperation, says its secretary-general, Datuk Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki. Asyraf said the Umno supreme council meeting on Wednesday (Dec 6) stressed that all MPs and state assemblymen should support the party’s stand on …

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil rejects any use of force by Venezuela to occupy the Esequibo territory in Guyana and will urge the Caracas government not to threaten its neighbor, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s top foreign policy advisor said on Wednesday. Celso Amorim, who traveled to Venezuela as Lula’s special …

LONDON (Reuters) – A court in Moscow ruled to keep the head of an election monitoring group who has alleged widespread ballot fraud in the past in prison until mid-April next year, a month after Russia is expected to hold its next presidential vote. Grigory Melkonyants, co-chairman of the non-governmental …

(Reuters) – A former executive at Twitter Inc, now called X Corp, has filed a lawsuit claiming he was fired after Elon Musk acquired the company for objecting to budget cuts that would prevent the company from complying with a U.S. government settlement over its security practices. Alan Rosa, who …

(Reuters) – Slovakia’s new government led by political veteran Robert Fico approved a plan on Wednesday to scrap a special prosecutor’s office focused on crimes including corruption, sparking opposition cries of foul play. President Zuzana Caputova has criticised the plan as a “step backwards”, and it will be closely watched …

KUALA LUMPUR: The Dewan Negara unanimously approved an emergency motion to protest and condemn the atrocities committed by the Israeli Zionist regime in Palestine. The motion, tabled by Senator Hussin Ismail under Standing Order 17 (1), contains five resolutions, including strongly protesting and condemning the atrocities committed on the Palestinian …

Apple Inc’s iMessage service looks set to win a carve out from new European Union antitrust rules to rein in Big Tech platforms after watchdogs tentatively concluded that it isn’t popular enough with business users to warrant being hit by the regulation. European Commission officials are leaning toward the reprieve …

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian lawmakers will vote on Thursday on a proposal to hold a presidential election on March 17, when Vladimir Putin is expected to seek and win a new six-year term. The vote was announced on Wednesday by Andrei Klishas, a senior member of the Federation Council. The Council …

LONDON (Reuters) – The government pledged on Wednesday there would be no repeat of the years of injustice suffered by families of the 97 victims of the 1989 Hillsborough soccer ground crush, Britain’s worst stadium disaster. The Liverpool fans, many of them young, died in an overcrowded, fenced-in enclosure at …

PARIS (Reuters) – The French police conducted ID checks on a “massive” scale in 2021, despite not having a doctrine to define their objectives or good practice during such checks, France’s public audit office, the Cour des comptes, said in a report on Wednesday. The report detailed for the first …