KOTA KINABALU: Four Covid-19 positive detainees escaped from the quarantine and treatment centre in Penampang early Sunday (Aug 1) morning. Read full story

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's most populous state of New South Wales recorded 239 COVID-19 infections of the highly transmissible Delta variant on Sunday, matching the record daily number of cases in the current outbreak seen on Thursday. Read full story

What you need to know about building a smart home. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia maintains its momentum in the fight against Covid-19 by administering 519,111 doses of Covid-19 vaccines on Saturday (July 31), says Dr Adham Baba. Read full story

IPOH: Perak is expected to see a surge of Covid-19 cases in the coming weeks, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. Read full story

Do you think you have the talent to make it as a top badminton player ? We talk to former World No 1 Peter-Gade Christensen on what it takes to be a champion. The answers may surprise you. Read full story

Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya vaccinations ramping up under Operation Surge Capacity. Read full story

THE year 2018 was a golden year for Malaysian film industry. Four local films raked in the money at the box office, totalling more than RM100mil. Read full story

KUCHING: The six-month extension of the Emergency in Sarawak allows the state election to be postponed until the Covid-19 situation improves for the polls to be held safely, says the Chief Minister. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: The Federal Gazette, in which the Yang di-Pertuan Agong proclaimed a state of emergency for Sarawak, has made clear the gravity of the situation. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has expressed concern over the health risk of the #Lawan rally in the city centre here amid the high number of Covid-19 cases in the Klang Valley. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: The special Dewan Rakyat sitting tomorrow has been postponed indefinitely due to the risk of Covid-19 transmission in Parliament House. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: More than 30% of the Covid-19 deaths recorded over the past 24 hours were from Selangor, said Health director-­general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. Read full story

WHO: Suppress Covid-19 fast before strains more deadly than Delta emerge Read full story

Drive-by attack victims are initially lured into visiting infected websites through hidden links, text messages, emails, and other ways. Read full story

So how do we actually define zero trust? A NIST blog says stick to the principle "never trust, always verify." Read full story

WhatsApp multi-device support may just be one of the most useful features that could arrive for users in 2021. Read full story

TUNIS (Reuters) - The head of Tunisia's biggest party, the moderate Islamist Ennahda, on Saturday postponed a meeting of its highest council after senior members called for his resignation over his handling of the political crisis, party sources said. Read full story

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian law enforcement agencies traded barbs on Saturday after a judge who disappeared in mysterious circumstances while facing a corruption investigation resurfaced and contacted the authorities from a village. Read full story

PARIS (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Paris and other French cities on Saturday against a mandatory coronavirus health pass for entry to a wide array of public venues, introduced by the government as it battles a fourth wave of infections. Read full story

SHAH ALAM (Bernama): Sirim Bhd will cooperate with local institutions on studies during the preliminary stages of Covid-19 vaccine development in Malaysia, said Sirim group president and chief executive officer Datuk Dr Ahmad Sabirin Arshad. Read full story

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday evening that state-controlled company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, known as Petrobras, has 3 billion reais ($575.5 million) to fund free LPG bottles to low-income people that cannot afford them. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR: A police report has been lodged over the Keluar dan #Lawan protest here on Saturday. Read full story

BELGRADE (Reuters) - The Bosnian Serb entity in Bosnia decided on Friday to defy the recent decision of the international peace overseer in the Balkan country to ban the denial of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. Read full story

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's transitional government is conscious of its commitment to a fixed deadline for arranging elections to restore democracy after last year's coup, Prime Minister Choguel Maiga said on Friday. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden plans to meet Cuban-American leaders on Friday at the White House to discuss protests against the communist government in Havana, sanctions on Cuban leaders and his attempt to provide internet access to the island. Read full story

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia called on Haiti on Friday to guarantee the legal and medical rights of 18 Colombians detained on the Caribbean island for alleged participation in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise. Read full story

BERLIN (Reuters) -Shots were fired in a violent clash at a store car park in northern Berlin on Friday, leaving four people injured, the Berliner Zeitung reported. Read full story

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will consider sanctions against migrant smugglers and those involved in human trafficking to address a surge in "irregular" border crossings from Belarus, the bloc's top diplomat on Friday said. Read full story

PARIS (Reuters) - Michel-Ange Flori, owner of a French street advertising business, decided to use some of his billboards for what he called an exercise in political satire: posting a picture showing President Emmanuel Macron dressed like Adolf Hitler. Read full story

PARIS (Reuters) - The European Union said on Friday it had adopted a legal framework for a sanctions regime targeting Lebanese individuals and entities after a year of crisis that has left Lebanon facing financial collapse, hyperinflation and food and fuel shortages. Read full story

DUBAI (Reuters) - A prominent imprisoned Bahraini opposition figure has lost 10 kg during the first three weeks of a hunger strike, a family member said on Friday, as rights groups called for his release and the return of a confiscated manuscript he had written. Read full story

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's president said on Friday changes were needed to the country's system for disciplining judges, but did not say what steps he would support that could help Warsaw avoid financial penalties from the European Union. Read full story

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon is to limit entry to restaurants, cafes, pubs and beaches to people holding COVID-19 vaccine certificates or those who have taken antibodies tests, the tourism ministry said on Friday. Read full story

(Corrects name in paragraph 4 to Lemos instead of Memos) Read full story

PARIS (Reuters) - Two people armed with a Taser and tear gas robbed a Dinh Van jewellery store in central Paris on Friday before fleeing on foot, two police sources said, with one of the sources saying as much as 2 million euros worth of goods was stolen. Read full story

(Reuters) - Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk on Friday showed his support for Fortnite maker Epic Games, commenting on Apple Inc's fees on its App Store. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. agency on Friday rejected a protest by Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics Inc over NASA's decision to pick a single lunar lander provider. Read full story

IPOH: Kampar MP Thomas Su has been suspended from DAP for three months due to a ruckus that broke out at the party’s state convention in March. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: The manufacturing sector in the Klang Valley has been urged to participate in the Operation Surge Capacity as part of the the government’s National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP) to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, says Datuk Lim Ban Hong. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Veteran Umno lawmaker Tan Sri Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has called for the extension of the current special Parliament sitting to allow MPs to discuss the Emergency Ordinances. Read full story

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru was mired in uncertainty on Friday as bonds tumbled and the local currency weakened after newly-elected Socialist President Pedro Castillo appointed hard-left Marxist as prime minister while the key post of finance minister remained vacant. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kamala Harris will become the first U.S. vice president to visit Vietnam next month during a trip that will also include Singapore and is aimed at strengthening ties with "two critical Indo-Pacific partners," the White House said on Friday. Read full story

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian security forces arrested a member of parliament at his home on Friday, his wife said, after he criticised President Kais Saied on Facebook and called his seizure of governing powers a coup. Read full story

(Reuters) - Rick Ornelas got into Robinhood Markets Inc's initial public offering (IPO) every way he could. Read full story

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday launched administrative proceedings against Facebook's WhatsApp for what it said was a failure to localise data of Russian users on Russian territory, the Interfax news agency reported. Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) - The family of Nnamdi Kanu, a secessionist leader and British citizen who is detained in Nigeria, has accused Britain of failing to provide him with consular assistance, the family's London lawyers said on Thursday. Read full story

URU CHIPAYA, Bolivia (Reuters) - On Bolivia's high desert plains of Uru Chipaya, Fausto Lopez donned his best clothes, excited to finally receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Read full story

Volkswagen's strong sales, including of its electric vehicles, is set to be stymied by the worsening shortage of semiconductor chips. Read full story

The goal is to trick you into sending money and sharing your data by using a made-up story about your PC being infected with viruses. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) is behind Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. Read full story

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Thousands of people in Guatemala took to the streets in protest on Thursday, calling for the resignation of President Alejandro Giammattei and the attorney general as fallout worsened over the firing of a well-known anti-corruption figure. Read full story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roman Badanin, chief editor of investigative news outlet Proekt, has left Russia with no plans to return and is evacuating his staff to avoid possible prosecution after Proekt was outlawed in a media crackdown, he told Reuters. Read full story

DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - Three more people were found dead after Tuesday's explosion at an industrial park in western Germany, bringing the death toll from the blast to five, police and prosecutors said on Thursday. Read full story

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Hundreds of people blocked traffic in the centre of Slovak capital Bratislava, protesting against a law which gives those who have had the COVID-19 vaccine easier access to public events and spaces, Slovak media reported on Thursday. Read full story

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's powerful labour union said on Thursday it was preparing a roadmap for steering the country out of political crisis that it would present to President Kais Saied, who has been accused by critics of a coup for taking over governing powers. Read full story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - App-based retail brokerage Robinhood Markets Inc was set to make its highly anticipated market debut on the Nasdaq on Thursday. Read full story

(Reuters) -Shares of online brokerage Robinhood Markets Inc were set to start trading at their offer price on the Nasdaq, in an underwhelming reception to one of the most hotly anticipated listings of the year. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: The Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) has stepped in to allay concerns over the presence of large numbers of vaccine recipients - with the majority being foreigners arriving in large groups - at the vaccination centres (PPVs) in Klang Valley. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong has expressed his condolences to the family of a foreign worker who died during an accident at the LRT3 construction site in Bandar Bukit Tinggi. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Confusion has arisen over the use of Barisan Nasional’s letterhead to issue a statement to the media concerning 40 of its lawmakers’ support for the Prime Minister. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: A thorough investigation into the cause of the metal scaffolding collapsing at an LRT3 construction site along Jalan Langat in Bandar Bukit Tinggi will be conducted. Read full story

MELAKA: Complimentary columbarium niche-spaces are being offered for families to store ash urns during the Covid-19 pandemic period, says the state government. Read full story

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday a new presidential decree would liberate thousands of federal prisoners in special circumstances, including torture victims. Read full story

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's south Aegean islands were marked 'dark red' on the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control's COVID-19 map on Thursday after a rise in infections, meaning all but essential travel to and from the region is discouraged. Read full story

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Some 9,000 migrants are stranded in a Caribbean municipality in Colombia amid a surge of people passing through on their way to north America following the re-opening of international borders post-lockdown, the Colombian migration agency said. Read full story

ATHENS (Reuters) - The Italian writer and publisher Roberto Calasso, "a literary institution of one" whose erudite explorations of myth and literature were translated into more than 20 languages has died at 80, his publishing house Adelphi said on Thursday. Read full story

BERLIN (Reuters) - All travellers arriving in Germany will be required from this weekend to demonstrate immunity from COVID-19 either from a vaccine or previous infection, or present a negative test result, government sources reported. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The rush to online shopping during the pandemic drove prices higher for goods ordered over the internet, eroding a long-standing cost advantage and possible evidence that overall inflation may become more persistent than thought, according to a new report from tech giant Adobe. Read full story

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's lower house of Congress is expected to vote on tax reform next week, with the bill likely be amended to exclude certain small companies' profit and dividend taxes, senior lawmakers steering the process said on Wednesday. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The Covid-19 infectivity rate (R-naught) in Malaysia increased to 1.16 on Wednesday (July 28) from 1.14 on Tuesday (July 27), says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) is currently ranked among the best in South-East Asia and should explore opportunities to diversify its products by making more specific forecasts, says its director-general Jailan Simon. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The plan to administer at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine to educators and support staff in educational institutions before the face-to-face school session begins in stages from Sept 1 will help curb the emergence of school clusters, says the National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP). Read full story

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the use of 1,495 members of the military to help neighbour Mozambique fight an Islamic State-linked insurgency, parliament said on Wednesday. Read full story

TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian and U.S. troops practised treating wounded soldiers in heavy rain on Wednesday as joint military drills between Georgia and NATO members were held at training areas close to the capital Tbilisi. Read full story

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state prosecutors asked a court on Wednesday to find Lyubov Sobol, a close ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, guilty of breaching COVID-19 safety regulations and to impose a set of restrictions on her for two years, her lawyer said. Read full story

ANKARA (Reuters) - A massive forest fire in southern Turkey spread to the town of Manavgat as the flames were fanned by strong winds on Wednesday, according to the local mayor, and TV footage showed residents running for their cars as streets were engulfed in smoke. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department said on Wednesday it had imposed sanctions on eight Syrian prisons run by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's intelligence apparatus and five senior officials who control the sites, where human rights abuses have taken place. Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) - A lawyer acting for Russian businessmen Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven said on Wednesday that Harper Collins had reached an agreement with them and agreed to issue an apology over aspects of a book about Vladimir Putin's Russia. Read full story

(Reuters) -Shares of PowerSchool Holdings Inc rose 2.8% in their New York Stock Exchange debut on Wednesday, giving the cloud-based education software provider a valuation of about $3.57 billion. Read full story

(Reuters) -Language learning app Duolingo Inc's shares rose nearly 39% in their U.S. market debut on Wednesday, giving the company a valuation of $6.5 billion on a fully-diluted basis. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two U.S. senators on Wednesday said they are introducing a measure to prohibit funds in a $1.9 trillion government funding measure from being used to purchase Chinese telecommunications equipment from Huawei, ZTE and other companies deemed U.S. security threats. Read full story

(Reuters) - Twitter Inc will begin allowing businesses to showcase products for sale at the top of their profile page, the social networking company said on Wednesday, as it seeks to grab a piece of the lucrative online shopping world. Read full story

(Reuters) - Rising prices of insurance against cyber attacks fail to take account of the potential catastrophic effects of a widespread attack, Chubb Ltd. Chief Executive Evan Greenberg said on Wednesday. Read full story

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU privacy watchdog EDPB on Wednesday gave the Irish data protection agency a month to issue a long-delayed decision on compliance by Facebook's WhatsApp, siding with national enforcers which had objected to a draft ruling. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Twenty-four Indonesians, including a woman, were fined RM2,000 each in default of three months' imprisonment by the Selayang Magistrate’s Court here Wednesday (July 28), for violating Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs) by gathering in conjunction with Hari Raya Haji celebrations. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR: Police have urged employers not to send their staff too early to the vaccination centres in order to avoid overcrowding. Read full story

JOHOR BARU: Police have arrested a 42-year-old man for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl at an orphanage near the city area here. Read full story

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's methane leak rate from oil and gas operations is twice as high as that of the world's top oil producer, the United States, a group of researchers found in a report due to be released this week. Read full story

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati said on Wednesday that he hoped to form a government shortly after securing the approval of President Michel Aoun for most of his nominees. Read full story

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro appointed center-right Senator Ciro Nogueira as his chief of staff on Wednesday to shore up waning political support in Congress, and recreated the labor ministry to deal with record unemployment. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -New York and other U.S. states filed a notice on Wednesday saying they will fight the dismissal of their antitrust lawsuit against social media giant Facebook Inc in an appeals court, according to a court filing. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: 10,000 frontliners in the maritime transportation sector have fully completed their Covid-19 vaccinations on Tuesday (July 27), says the Port Klang Authority (PKA). Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Several Opposition MPs in Parliament pushed for the use of Ivermectin – an anti-parasitic drug whose efficacy and safety in treating Covid-19 have yet to be conclusively determined – to treat Covid-19. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Following claims that conditions at a Klang hospital are "dismal" – with some patients allegedly not getting food – Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba says he will be making an unscheduled visit there with Charles Santiago. Read full story

KOTA KINABALU: Police are hunting for a man who jumped out of a Health Department vehicle as he was being transported to the Likas Quarantine Centre in Likas. Read full story

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday asserted Mexico's independence to send fuel as well as food and medical supplies to Cuba, which is grappling with a surge in coronavirus cases. Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia will impose a three-year travel ban on citizens travelling to countries on the kingdom's 'red list' under efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus and its new variants, state news agency SPA said on Tuesday. Read full story

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - UNESCO added the ancient Roman gold mining area of Rosia Montana in western Romania to its list of world heritage sites on Tuesday, throwing the town a lifeline and further complicating a long-stalled mine project. Read full story

DOUALA (Reuters) - Unidentified attackers killed five Cameroonian soldiers and one civilian during a raid on a military outpost in the far north of the country, local authorities said on Tuesday, the second deadly raid in the area in the past week. Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that people should not get carried away by six days of better COVID-19 infection data, while one of the country's top epidemiologists said the end of the pandemic could be just months away. Read full story

TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia's leading Islamist party moved on Tuesday to ease the country's political crisis, calling for dialogue and urging supporters not to protest after accusing President Kais Saied of launching a coup. Read full story

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday discussed how to ease COVID-19 travel restrictions, which have stranded around 400,000 Pakistani workers back home, foreign ministers of the two countries told reporters. Read full story

QUBAH, Libya (Reuters) - Libya will return to "square one" and the turmoil of 2011 if national elections planned for December are delayed, the speaker of parliament said, with a new rival government likely to set itself up in the east. Read full story

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan authorities have arrested four journalists on propaganda charges after they tried to enter the contested area of Spin Boldak in southern Kandahar province, where security forces have been clashing with Taliban fighters, officials said on Tuesday. Read full story

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The government of Ethiopia's Somali region on Tuesday accused militia from the neighbouring Afar region of killing hundreds of civilians in an attack. Read full story

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Binance, one of the world's biggest exchanges, wants to set up regional headquarters and be recognised by local regulators, its chief executive said on Tuesday. Read full story

(Reuters) - NBCU News Group, part of NBCUniversal, is expanding its streaming and digital operations, adding 200 new jobs and several new hours of live, original programming to its NBC News Now streaming channel, the company said Tuesday. Read full story

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria plans to launch its own crypto currency, called the "e-naira", in October, its central bank governor said on Tuesday. Read full story

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian payments firm Conductor has hired banks for an initial public offering in the United States that could come as early as this year, as Latin America's financial sector is enlivened by the arrival of several newcomers, three sources familiar with the matter said. Read full story

NEW YORK/BENGALARU (Reuters) - Fireblocks, a platform that allows banks and other financial institutions to store, move and issue cryptocurrencies, said on Tuesday it raised $310 million in fresh capital from investors, boosting its valuation to $2 billion. Read full story

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc will stop allowing advertisers to target people under 18 on its platforms based on their interests or their activity on other sites, it said on Tuesday in a slew of announcements about young users. Read full story

BERLIN (Reuters) - Google said on Tuesday that it was taking legal action over an expanded version of Germany's hate-speech law that recently took effect, saying its provisions violated the right to privacy of its users. Read full story

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(Reuters) - Strong sales of 5G iPhones and services such as the App Store and Apple Music are expected to drive growth at Apple Inc, which reports results on Tuesday, but some investors will be listening to the company's strategy to ward off anti-trust foes. Read full story

PARIS (Reuters) - France's foreign ministry said on Monday that Iran was endangering the chance of concluding an accord with world powers over reviving its 2015 nuclear deal if it did not return to the negotiating table soon. Read full story

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - At least seven people, including six police officers, were killed and more than 70 hurt on Monday in clashes between two Indian states, a senior politician said, as a weeks-long territorial dispute in the country's northeast turned deadly. Read full story

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi paramilitary group said on Monday one of its ammunition depots came under drone attack near the southern city of Najaf. Read full story