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

1. DAP Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng has asked the government to spare Umno from being deregistered.

2. Malacca police gave the go-ahead for a prayer session that will feature preacher Zakir Naik this Saturday. Malacca exco member Mohd Rafiq Naizamohideen said non-Muslims need not worry about the event.

3. Police are awaiting instructions from the Attorney-General's Chambers regarding the probe into Zakir Naik, while investigation papers on Chinese educationist group Dong Zong will be submitted soon.

4. Police have received a report from British audiovisual forensic experts on the sex video implicating Economic Affairs Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali.

5. PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan said a campaign to buy Muslim-made products first is inclusive, a claim which DAP's Ramkarpal Singh rubbished.

6. Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Saifuddin Nasution said the cabinet paper on the targeted petrol subsidy will be tabled as soon as possible. The government is also almost ready to identify a mechanism to standardise drug prices.

7. Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah said Putrajaya is planning to propose a new price mechanism for the raw water supplied to Singapore.

8. Saifuddin, who is also Pakatan Harapan chief secretary, said racial politicking could be reduced if more parliamentary constituencies have a mixed voter demographic.