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

Annuar: Inaccurate to say Umno directly backed red shirts

Umno information chief Annuar Musa distanced the party from the red shirt protesters who clashed with Bersih, saying it was inaccurate to say the group is directly backed by Umno.

Annuar brushed off the US Department of Justice lawsuits related to 1MDB as "just another branch" on Umno's tree.

The Ketereh MP also extended an olive branch to Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia vice-president Mukhriz Mahathir, saying he could rejoin Umno if he wanted to become prime minister.

Redelineation will help BN win big, academician predicts

On another matter, Annuar said several Umno leaders were unhappy that the Election Commission did not meet them about the redelineation exercise, and said he himself will lose 20 branches in the Ketereh parliamentary seat.

However, Institute Darul Ehsan deputy chairperson Mohamad Redzuan Othman predicted that the redelineation will help BN win big in the next general election, just as it did in 2004.

Other Kinibites

Sarawak DAP chief Chong Chieng Jen implied that the Sabah PKR and DAP leaders who defected were motivated by former Umno vice-president Shafie Apdal's wealth.

Several men, believed to be Australians, were arrested on Sunday for allegedly stripping down to their Malaysian flag underwear.

Former Umno minister Rafidah Aziz said street protests would not solve anything, and pushed for the formation of an apolitical National Consultative Council 2 (NCC2), as proposed by prominent banker Nazir Razak last week.

Looking ahead

Bersatu's Mukhriz will hold a joint press conference with Amanah deputy president Salahuddin Ayub on the term limits for the prime minister's post that the opposition parties have proposed.

Red shirt leader Jamal Md Yunos will also be submitting evidence to the police that Bersih has been infiltrated by Islamic State elements.