SHAH ALAM: Selangor Ruler Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah has raised concerns about Muslims who are easily influenced by negative religious teachings that can cause them to deviate. The Ruler said there were many ways to obtain authentic religious information in accordance with the Ahli Sunnah Wal Jamaah school of thought. “Many books on Islam are available in...
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has invited the public to come together and celebrate Malaysia's rich and unique cultural heritage in a harmonious setting at the Malaysia Sarong Music Run 2025 at the Petronas Twin Towers (KLCC) on Saturday (Feb 8). He said, in a Facebook post Friday (Feb 7), that the involvement...
KUALA LUMPUR: The number of flood evacuees at temporary relief centres (PPS) in Sabah continues to increase, while Sarawak recorded a decline as at 8pm Friday (Feb 7). In SABAH, the numbers rose to 700 from 190 families, compared to 663 (178 families) earlier in the day. According to the State Disaster Management Committee Secretariat, a total of...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Five people were shot on Tuesday in an attack at a school for adults in Sweden, triggering a massive response by rescue services, police said. "This is currently seen as attempted murder, arson and aggravated weapons offence," police said in a statement, adding that the extent of the injuries of the five people who...
LONDON (Reuters) - Lawyers for British nurse Lucy Letby on Tuesday launched a new bid to overthrow her conviction for killing seven babies, after a group of international medical experts who reexamined evidence used at her trial concluded none had actually been murdered. Letby was convicted of killing the newborns and attempting to murder eight more...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke to Elon Musk on the subject of misinformation about South Africa, the presidency said on Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would suspend aid to the country over its land reform policy. Trump on Sunday accused South Africa of confiscating land and badly treating "certain...
IPOH: A man was found dead inside a water storage tank of a fishing rig at Sungai Pinang Besar on Pangkor Island. Manjung OCPD Asst Comm Hasbullah Abd Rahman said a report was lodged by a member of the public at 3.15pm on Tuesday (Feb 4) on the discovery of the body inside the tank of...
PETALING JAYA: The Sessions Court was informed on Tuesday (Feb 4) that the body of a missing boy was found by the banks of a stream near a reservoir close to Block R of the Idaman Apartment in Damansara Damai, with injuries to his left ear and right hand. Cpl Sulaimen Razak, 42, a photographer from...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has detained six individuals, including a civil engineer and three company owners, on suspicion of bribery for monopolising all projects awarded by two government departments across two districts in Sarawak. According to sources, the male suspects, aged 40 to 70, were detained between 7am and noon at various locations...
Washington DC (AFP): Hundreds of US government websites were offline on Monday (Feb 3), an AFP review showed, including that of the humanitarian agency USAID which President Donald Trump's administration is shutting down. From a list of nearly 1,400 federal sites provided by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), more than 350 were unavailable on...
