Malaysia Leader Accused of Power Grab After Parliament Suspended Bloomberg 1/13/2021 Philip J. Heijmans and Anisah Shukry
(Bloomberg) In explaining why Malaysia needed to suspend democracy for the first time in half a century to fight the pandemic, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin assured the nation he wasn’t staging a military coup.
But his opponents found it hard to view the first nationwide emergency since 1969 as anything but a power grab. While the Southeast Asian nation has seen a surge of coronavirus cases in recent weeks along with many other countries, measures to combat the pandemic have generally enjoyed broad support across the political spectrum.
I.R.S. Tries to Fix Millions of Misdirected Stimulus Payments
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The Internal Revenue Service misdirected stimulus payments for an estimated 13 million accounts, but the agency on Friday said it is trying to redirect to the money to the proper place. If you’re anticipating a stimulus payment that hasn’t yet landed, continue to monitor your bank accounts and your snail mail.
The I.R.S. was taking “immediate steps” to get stimulus payments to the correct accounts, the agency said in a statement on Friday. “Many additional taxpayers will receive payments following this effort,” the IRS added.
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