Azmin's olive branch and other news you may have missed

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1. Bersatu supreme council member Azmin Ali wants to negotiate with Umno on seats it lost to Bersatu through defections but Umno is adamant it won't give up any of them in the next general election.

2. Umno information chief Shahril Hamdan questioned why would Kuala Langat MP Xavier Jayakumar be under pressure to defect due to an MACC probe if he was innocent.

3. Xavier declined to comment on his defection from PKR to support PN when met by journalists after receiving his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

4. Johor MACC said it has submitted its investigation papers into allegations by PKR's Sekijang MP Natrah Ismail that she was enticed to defect to PN.

5. MIC denied that it was being enticed to quit BN in favour of another political bloc.

6. The government formally filed an appeal against the decision of the High Court in Kuala Lumpur that the ban on non-Muslims from using the word "Allah" is invalid.

7. Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Ahmad Marzuk Shaary revealed that the government is planning to amend Act 355, a long-time goal of PAS, and also to introduce a federal law to curb the spread of non-Muslim religions to Muslims.

8. Umno and Pakatan Harapan are offering free legal services to people who have been slapped with RM10,000 fines for minor violations of movement control order (MCO) rules.

9. The government acknowledged implementation problems in the fines, which were increased from RM1,000 to RM10,000, and promised to spell out the offences and their corresponding fines soon.

10. The National Landscape Department denied that a cycling event it organised and was attended by Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin had violated MCO rules.