Malaysia's ex-PM Mahathir released from hospital

By Agence France-Presse

Mar 18, 2024 5:00 pm

KUALA LUMPUR: Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's nearly 100-year-old former prime minister, was discharged from the hospital on Monday, almost two months after he was admitted for an infection, his office said.

The 98-year-old, dubbed the world's oldest serving leader when he became the Southeast Asian country's head of government for the second time in 2018, was admitted to the National Heart Institute on January 26.

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