KINI ROUNDUP | Here are the key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

Dr M’s Malay support disputed

Umno information chief Annuar Musa said Dr Mahathir Mohamad commanded Malay support during his tenure as prime minister only because he was in Umno.

Annuar also claimed former deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin never once raised the 1MDB issue at Umno supreme council meetings.

Azwan Ali, the estranged brother of Selangor MB Azmin Ali, handed in evidence of alleged “extreme corruption” of an unnamed leader to the MACC.

PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar kept mum on the proposal to make Mahathir the opposition’s interim prime ministerial candidate, but said she was “encouraged” by ongoing discussions.

Meanwhile, PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, will appeal a court decision ordering them to pay RM2 million in damages to Felda and Felda Global Ventures over defamatory articles in party organ Suara Keadilan.

Two arrested over Johor murder

Johor police have arrested two suspects in connection with the brazen murder of an alleged triad member at a petrol station in Johor Bahru last Sunday.

Police also arrested an Indian national who molested three women at three different LRT stations in Selangor on the same day.

A 53-year-old fisherman was jailed for 115 years and ordered to be caned 24 times by a court in Kuantan for repeatedly raping his daughter between 2013 and this year.

The High Court in Kuala Lumpur set aside an arrest warrant against Batu MP Tian Chua after his lawyer explained his absence from court yesterday.

The widow of a man killed in a police shootout demanded an independent probe into the incident, due to contradictions in the police and post-mortem reports.

Other Kinibites

Kelantan Deputy Menteri Besar Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah said that the state's slow pace of development was deliberate, as locals would not be able to keep up otherwise.

The National Human Rights Society took the government to task over an alleged cover-up in the Wang Kelian mass graves find.

Two PKR Youth leaders alleged that the Tourism Ministry was holding back tourist figures, with its minister Nazri Abdul Aziz responding by calling the duo “stupid” and “ignoramuses.”

Fuel prices went up across the board starting at midnight, with RON95 and RON97 going up two sen each, and diesel three sen.

Advocacy group Sisters in Islam called for an end to the police investigation on Universiti Malaya professor Shad Saleem Faruqi over an article he wrote in The Star.

Looking ahead

Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is visiting Datasonic Manufacturing, which supplies the government with its electronic passport printing materials, at its office in Petaling Jaya.

Kampung Tunku DAP assemblyperson Lau Weng San will hold a press conference on non-action against money-laundering activities at the Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Department in Kuala Lumpur.