Speaking in Berlin, former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont on Thursday announced his decision to renounce leadership of the region's legislature. He tapped Catalan lawmaker Quim Torra to take the helm, urging parliament to confirm him as regional president.
The announcement marks a major shift for Puigdemont after he declared Catalonia's independence last year, a move that prompted Madrid to intervene and dissolve parliament in favor of fresh elections.
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2018-5-11 13:00:37
Italy's populists make 'significant steps' towards coalition government
The left-wing Five Star Movement (M5S) and the far-right League, two of Italy's biggest anti-establishment parties, on Thursday said they had made "significant steps" towards forming a coalition government.
Italy has been in a political deadlock since inconclusive elections in March. But the two parties made a breakthrough on Wednesday, when former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he wouldn't prevent the two parties from forming a government.
But the Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, warned both euroskeptic parties against undermining the country's status in the EU, saying they would be "consciously tricking public opinion" by suggesting Italy could get on without the bloc. Both parties want to exit the eurozone and renegotiate EU budgetary restrictions.
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2018-5-11 15:11:16
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Barisan Nasional government is in danger of losing its majority in the 60-seat assembly barely 12 hours after Chief Minister Tan Sri Musa Aman was sworn in at 11.15pm Thursday (May 10) in Istana Negeri.
Two Sabah Umno assemblyman – Datuk Abdul Muis Picho (Sebatik) and Datuk Hamisah Samat (Tanjong Batu) – arrived at 12.15pm Friday (May 11) at the Taman Golf View residence of Parti Warisan Sabah president Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal.
The two are believed to be keen to defect to Warisan while sources indicate that three of the five assemblymen who purportedly “defected” are still with party president Datuk Seri Madius Tangau, whose party, with five assemblyman, left Barisan on Thursday (May 10).
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Landmark U.S. “net neutrality” rules will expire on June 11, and new regulations handing providers broad new power over how consumers can access the internet will take effect, the Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday in setting the date.
The FCC in December repealed the Obama-era open-internet rules set in 2015, which bars providers from blocking or slowing down access to content or charging consumers more for certain content.
The prior rules were intended to ensure a free and open internet, give consumers equal access to web content and bar broadband service providers from favoring their own material or others.
The new rules require internet providers to tell consumers whether they will block or slow content or offer paid “fast lanes.”
Filibuster_HK
2018-5-11 21:13:08
Exclusive: Malaysia's Mahathir to appoint adviser to recover 1MDB funds - sources
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia’s newly-elected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad plans to appoint a finance ministry adviser who will oversee efforts to recover billions of dollars allegedly stolen from state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), two sources told Reuters.
The adviser would be appointed to “restart the 1MDB probe and bring back the money”, said one of the sources, who worked closely with Mahathir’s campaign team. The second source, a lawmaker, said the announcement could come as soon as Saturday when Mahathir is expected to name members of his new cabinet.
Mahathir had vowed to investigate the scandal if elected and bring missing funds back to Malaysia. On Thursday, he said that if Najib had done anything wrong he would “face the consequences”.
Filibuster_HK
2018-5-11 21:13:57
Iraqis voting in first election since Islamic State
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - For the first time since driving out Islamic State, Iraqis go to the polls on Saturday in an election that will shape attempts to heal the country’s deep divisions and could shift the regional balance of power.
Iraq’s three main ethnic and religious groups, the majority Shi’ite Arabs and the minority Sunni Arabs and Kurds, have been at loggerheads for decades and the sectarian rifts are as apparent as ever 15 years after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The election of a new prime minister and parliament also takes place the same week U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, raising tensions between Iraq’s two main allies: Tehran and Washington.
Whoever wins the May 12 election will face the challenge of rebuilding Iraq after four years of war with Islamic State, jump-starting a flagging economy, balancing the interests of powerful foreign patrons and maintaining the country’s fragile unity in the face of sectarian and separatist tensions.
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2018-5-12 00:40:41
Sources were quoted as saying that a chartered private jet originating from Indonesia is scheduled to land at Subang Skypark Airport in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
The sources have stated that passenger manifest has shown that passengers are the former leader of Malaysia along with his wife
From: The Straits Times