Author: Harapandaily

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its forecast for Malaysia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth to 4.5 per cent in 2025 and 4.0 per cent in 2026. In its July 2025 World Economic Outlook (WEO) update released today, titled ‘Global Economy: Tenuous Resilience amid Persistent Uncertainty’, the IMF said the forecast for 2025…

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. will partner with Israel to run new food centers in Gaza to address the worsening humanitarian crisis there, but he and U.S. officials offered few additional details about the plan or how it would differ from existing food distribution centers. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One…

Arab countries including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt joined calls Tuesday for Hamas to disarm and end its rule of Gaza, in a bid to end the devastating war in the Palestinian territory. Seventeen countries plus the European Union and Arab League threw their weight behind a seven-page text agreed at a United Nations conference…

Deputy National Unity minister, Senator K Saraswathy rubbished claims by the opposition that the Indian community has been sidelined by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s administration. She claimed that the claims were “misconception propagated by certain quarters”. “This is completely untrue and does not reflect the government’s ongoing commitment to the well-being and progress…