GENEVA (AA) – Israel’s housing policies in East Jerusalem amount to “racial segregation and discrimination” against the Palestinian people and a violation of their human rights, a group of UN experts said Thursday. The experts made their assessment based on reports that Palestinians have been subject to “discriminatory zoning and plannin...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday unearthed three more bodies of war victims from a mass grave near the city of Mostar. The Institute of Missing Persons said that the bodies found in Medjine, were transferred to the Sutina City Cemetery in Mostar for medical and forensic processing, and bone samples were [&helli...
PARIS (AA) – French prosecutors on Wednesday launched a preliminary investigation into the “profiling” of Muslims by a far-right website. Taha Bouhafs, a French journalist, stated on social media that the Paris Prosecutor’s Office has launched the investigation into the Fdesouche website that has reportedly labelled Mus...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – The US city of Minneapolis and its police department have engaged in an illegal “pattern or practice of race discrimination,” according to a report released Wednesday by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. The department launched the study just days after then-police officer Derek Chauvin killed Ge...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has delivered more than half of the 90 howitzer artillery guns destined for Ukraine, with more on the way, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. Spokesman John Kirby told reporters that over 50 Ukrainian fighters completed training on the M777 howitzer weapons earlier this week, with another batch of troops expected ...
RAMALLAH, PALESTINE (AA): Thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank flocked to an Israeli crossing leading to the city of Jerusalem, to observe Laylat al-Qadr at Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday despite the tension in the city and the Israeli restrictions on their entry. Since early morning, traffic at the Qalandia security checkpoint — lo...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Lawmakers in Somalia’s lower house of parliament chose Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur as its new speaker early Thursday after a much anticipated election held inside the heavily protected Aden Adde International Airport in the capital Mogadishu. Over 250 parliamentarians took part in the election following severa...
ANKARA (AA) – Hostility towards the Muslim holy book, the Quran, is a sign of ignorance, Turkey’s president said Wednesday. Speaking at the final program of Turkish broadcaster TRT’s Quran Recitation Competition in Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that “some European countries are trying to gain political profits by being hostile to Islam a...
JOHANNESBURG – Israel’s growing influence in Africa — including that of obtaining observer status at the African Union, the largest political organization in the continent — has enraged many pro-Palestinian campaigners. Last month, activists from across Africa met in Senegal’s capital Dakar to mobilize support for the Palesti...
MICHEWENI, Tanzania – Despite reaping good profits, spice and herbs farmers on Tanzania’s Pemba Island have experienced food insecurity after they had made a decision to stop growing conventional food crops in favor of high-valued spices. Amid rising costs of living triggered by spiraling food prices, hundreds of spice farmers on the tin...
