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Tight election race points to a hung parliament in Malaysia
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Malaysia is heading for a hung parliament as the coalition led by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and ex-PM Muhyiddin Yassin make gains but fail to win a clear majority.
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Malaysia elections: Mahathir lose ground to poll rivals
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Mahathir Mohamad, the 97-year-old elder statesman of Malaysian politics, lost his parliamentary seat in Saturday's polls, likely ending the career of one of Asia's most enduring politicians.
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Former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohammed hospitalised
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], January 22 (ANI/Sputnik): The 96-year-old former Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, has been hospitalized for the third time in a little over a month and admitted to the National Heart Institute, the country's leading cardiological medical institution, media
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Malaysia's leading coalition wins key state election
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], November 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Malaysia's Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition led by the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) scored a key election victory on Saturday, winning over control of the Malacca state.
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Twitter deletes Mahathir Mohamad's tweet for glorifying violence; France s
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Paris [France], October 30 (ANI): Social networking platform Twitter on Thursday removed former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's tweet, for violating its rules banning the glorification of violence, shortly after a violent knife attack in Nice, which left three people dead.
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Muslims have right to be angry and kill millions of French people: Former
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], October 29 (ANI): Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad on Thursday asserted that Muslims have a right to be angry and "kill millions of French people" for the "massacres of the past". This comes following French President Emmanuel Macron's criticism of
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Twitterati outburst against former Malaysian PM Mahathir for targeting Kas
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], Aug 9 (ANI): Twitterati from across the world has lashed out against the former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for raising the Kashmir issue in one of his tweets on the first anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370.
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Former Malaysian PM says his contentious remarks at UNGA affected palm oil
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], Aug 9 (ANI): Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Saturday said he was not offering apologies for the impact of his contentious remarks on the Kashmir at UN General assembly though he was sorry that it impacted Malaysian palm oil export to India.
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India sends formal request to Malaysia for Zakir Naik extradition
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): The Indian government has sent a formal request to Malaysia for the extradition of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, sources told ANI on Thursday.
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Malaysian King rejects plan for parliament vote to break impasse post Maha
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], Feb 28 (ANI): The political impasse in Malaysia is nowhere closer to being resolved as Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah on Friday decided not to call for a special parliamentary session next week to choose a prime minister.
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Mahathir Mohamad resigns as Malaysian PM amid political turmoil
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], Feb 24 (ANI): Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Monday announced his resignation from the post, paving the way for a possible formation of a new government.
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India rejects J-K reference in Pak-Malaysia joint statement
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 6 (ANI): Lashing out at Pakistan, India on Thursday rejected the references to Jammu and Kashmir in a Pakistan-Malaysia joint statement and asked Malaysian leadership to develop a better understanding of the facts including that Islamabad is an epicentre of global terr
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