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| Judge says Trump ‘likely’ committed crimes in bid to block Biden victory |
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Posted by: superadmin - 03-29-2022, 11:08 AM - Forum: Politics
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Donald Trump appears to have committed multiple felonies as he sought to return himself to power on 6 January, a judge said in a Monday ruling that ordered the Trump lawyer John Eastman to turn over hundreds of emails to the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack.
The extraordinary ruling marks a breakthrough and paves the way for the select committee to obtain some of Eastman’s most sensitive emails concerning his illegal scheme to overturn the 2020 election, which he had attempted to shield from the inquiry.
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| Biden pitches US$5.8 trillion plan with record tax hike |
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Posted by: superadmin - 03-29-2022, 10:52 AM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment
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(March 28): President Joe Biden unveiled a US$5.8 trillion budget request designed to appease moderate Democrats on Monday, with a proposal that emphasized deficit reduction, additional funding for police and veterans, and flexibility to negotiate new social spending programmes.
Congress historically sets presidential budgets aside but they do form a key messaging device. The White House included measures that would add up to the biggest tax increase in history in dollar terms, helping stabilize deficits relative to the size of the economy.
The 2023 budget calls for US$1.598 trillion in so-called discretionary spending — areas that aren’t linked with mandatory programs like Social Security — with US$813 billion for defense-related programmes and US$769 billion for domestic spending.
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| Tian Chua must prove he’s truly Azmin-less, says analyst |
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Posted by: superadmin - 03-29-2022, 10:22 AM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: Tian Chua still has a future in PKR, as long as he can prove to the party leadership and members that he has cut all ties with former deputy president Azmin Ali, says an analyst.
Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid of Universiti Sains Malaysia said the party’s rank and file should be willing to accept him back into the fold if he showed enough remorse. The onus was on Tian Chua, said Fauzi.
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| Royal address for first meeting, fifth session of 14th Perak assembly – Sultan Nazrin |
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Posted by: superadmin - 03-29-2022, 09:24 AM - Forum: Politics
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Royal address for first meeting, fifth session of 14th Perak assembly – Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah
HONOURABLE speaker of the House, praise be to Allah, and by the grace of Allah, may He be praised and exalted, we are able to hold this First Meeting in the Fifth Year of the Fourteenth Perak State Assembly.
The Covid-19 pandemic shall go down in history as the most devastating global disaster, affecting not just the world economic performances, disrupting lives, managing healthcare, and food supplies, rather leaving a trail of trauma that still tugs at the emotions of many, poets lament of omnipresent barbs of panic, tourists without destinations, wanderers without directions, explorers without borders, ships docked at ports, airplanes grounded in hangars, trains stranded at stations, flowers withered, farms unattended and livestock forsaken. More heartbreaking is the sight of millions in their death throes. More than 185 nations struggled to rein in the numbers, yet infection levels climbed, unrelenting. Besieged, man is herded into a complicated war with an unseen enemy.
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| Sulaiman denies rift with Ab Rauf, after talk of power tussle |
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Posted by: superadmin - 03-29-2022, 09:13 AM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: Long-standing talk of a rift between Melaka chief minister Sulaiman Md Ali and state Barisan Nasional leader Ab Rauf Yusoh has surfaced again after a challenge by an opposition politician.
Sulaiman said today he had no problems with Ab Rauf and they enjoyed a cordial relationship. “I do not like to comment on rumours,” he was quoted as saying at a press conference in Ayer Keroh.
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| Bung-Musa meeting sets tongues wagging in Sabah |
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Posted by: superadmin - 03-29-2022, 09:08 AM - Forum: Politics
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KOTA KINABALU: A recent meeting between former Sabah chief minister Musa Aman and state Barisan Nasional chief Bung Moktar Radin and his Umno team has set tongues wagging in the state.
Speculation that the Sabah Umno strongman is coming back to the forefront of Sabah politics is being widely talked about among political circles and in social media.
A photo of the meeting posted on Bung’s Facebook account last Friday has already garnered more than 3,000 likes, over 300 comments and 135 shares.
Besides Bung, others in the photo were Sabah Umno deputy chief Yakub Khan, state Umno secretary Jafry Ariffin and Usukan assemblyman Salleh Said Keruak.
This has led to speculation over whether a new political game may be in the offing in the state ahead of the 15th general election.
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| Taliban ban Afghan women from flying without male relative |
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Posted by: superadmin - 03-28-2022, 03:51 PM - Forum: Stop Gender Inequality
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KABUL – The Taliban have ordered airlines in Afghanistan to stop women from boarding flights unless accompanied by a male relative, aviation officials said.
The latest restriction on women follows Wednesday’s shutdown of all girls’ secondary schools just hours after they were allowed to reopen for the first time since the hardline Islamists seized power in August.
Two officials from Afghanistan’s Ariana Afghan airline and Kam Air said late yesterday that the Taliban had ordered them to stop boarding women if they were travelling alone.
The decision was taken after a meeting on Thursday between representatives of the Taliban, the two airlines, and airport immigration authorities, the officials said, asking not to be named.
Since the Taliban’s return to power, many curbs on women’s freedoms have been reintroduced – often implemented locally at the whim of regional officials from the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Ministry.
The ministry said it had not issued any directive banning women from taking flights alone.
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| ‘Cold war’ possible, but not break-up: Fahmi on PKR polls |
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Posted by: superadmin - 03-28-2022, 09:40 AM - Forum: Politics
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KUALA LUMPUR – The coming PKR election in May will not lead to a split in the party as the contest will be a democratic process guided by party discipline, information chief Fahmi Fadzil has said.
The party polls, scheduled for May 13 to 18, are expected to be hotly contested, with former party strategist Rafizi Ramli returning to the fold by declaring that he would stand for deputy president.
Fahmi said the contest may lead to a “cold war” between the competing camps, but stressed that the party will make sure to enforce discipline to clamp down on any disturbances.
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