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Japan downgraded the legal status of COVID-19 to the same category as seasonal influenza and greatly relaxed its related health measures.

The district attorney and the special prosecutor have removed the firearm enhancement to the involuntary manslaughter charges.

A classification downgrade to disease category five from the current category two would end an isolation requirement for infected people.

China and M'sia would be most severely hit, with rating downgrades by more than six notches in the partial collapse scenario, study shows.

"I want to spend my life serving the people. Either at the Parliamentary or state constituency level, it makes no difference for an elected representative," said Datuk Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi.

Newly-minted Energy and Natural Resources Minister Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan said he did not see the change in his portfolio as a downgrade.

In the meantime, a monitoring mission will visit the reef to determine how the impact of climate change can be managed.

According to the TIP Report, officials did not demonstrate a consistent understanding of the definition of trafficking.

The hardest hit countries included China, Chile, Malaysia, and Mexico which could see six notches of downgrades by the end of the century.

Tengku Zafrul said since Fitch's announcement, there has been no knee-jerk reaction from the market.

Economists and financial research houses are confident that the Fitch downgrade will not have a critical or sustained impact on Malaysia.

Mustapa said the government would take note of the downgrade and strive to improve the country's financial position.

Singapore's Trade and Industry Ministry (MTI) has downgraded the republic's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth forecast for this year to between -7.0 and -4.0 per cent.

The reopening followed a downgrade in the authorities' aviation warning to "orange", one level below the most serious.

Downgraded from a hurricane overnight, Ophelia caused two deaths in Ireland on Monday, where it was the worst storm in half a century.

Donald Trump says he would impose the tariffs until China stops the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, into the United States.

Topping the demands of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party is the release of all its leaders, including Khan, who has been jailed on a series of corruption charges since August 2023.

The report highlights that "60 per cent of all female homicides" are committed by "people closely related to them".

Two subsea cables, one linking Finland and Germany and the other connecting Sweden to Lithuania, were damaged in less than 24 hours.

It is clear that adding more lanes and highways doesn't work, because we are still attempting the same approach to solve the issue.

This investment includes efforts to upgrade INOKOM's existing assembly capacity to meet Hyundai's automotive needs.

'C4Cinta', directed by young filmmaker Karthik Shamalan, has set a new benchmark in Malaysian Tamil cinema.

The court denied bail and scheduled case mention on Feb 7 for the submission of forensic, autopsy, and chemist reports.

The classroom assessment approach offers a much more interesting learning ecosystem, says Fadhlina Sidek.

Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.