WASHINGTON (AA) – Muslim Americans gave an estimated $1.8 billion in charity in 2021, according to a report. The average Muslim gave $2,070 in what is known as ‘Zakat’_ compulsory charity, which is one of the five pillars of Islam. The findings were part of the report released last week by the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative [...
NEW YORK (AA) – Liechtenstein is set to bring up a draft resolution at the 193-member UN General Assembly that would require any of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council that exercises their veto power to justify its use. The veto right of the permanent members has long been discussed, but with […]
TRENTON, Canada – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has often emphasized that diversity is Canada’s strength. However, Islamophobia continues to be on the rise in the country. The 9/11 attack on the US had profound effects in Canada, fanning the flames of Islamophobia. In 2017 the Quebec mosque attack exposed the extent of Islamophobia...
ISTANBUL (AA) – According to the Ukrainian military, nearly 21,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since Russia launched its war on Ukraine. In a statement, the Ukrainian General Staff has said that the Ukrainian army has destroyed 172 Russian aircraft, 151 helicopters, 829 tanks, 2,118 armored vehicles, 393 artillery systems, and eigh...
ISTANBUL – The Chinese president has proposed a “global security initiative” to promote “security for all” in the world. “We need to work together to maintain peace and stability in the world,” Xi Jinping told Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2022. “Stability brings a country prosperity while instability leads a country to poverty,”...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – At least 30,000 Ukrainian citizens have been forcibly taken to Russia from the southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol since February 24, a senior Ukrainian official said. “The stories about what happened in Mariupol, about the people who defended their homeland, will be written in educational books for 100 yea...
MOSCOW- Russia has closed consulates of Baltic states and expelled diplomats in a retaliatory move, the country’s Foreign Ministry has announced. In a statement, the ministry announced the decision to close the Latvian consulates in Saint Petersburg and Pskov, Estonia’s consulate in Saint Petersburg and its office in Pskov, and the Lithuanian ...
Florida’s Republican-controlled House voted along party lines Thursday to approve a congressional map drawn by the office of right-wing Gov. Ron DeSantis, a move that came after state Democrats staged a sit-in on the chamber’s floor to condemn the redistricting plan as unconstitutional and racist. The map, which cleared the state S...
National Nurses United, the largest union of registered nurses in the U.S., is calling on the White House to bolster federal antitrust probes and rules to reduce the detrimental impacts of healthcare industry mergers and acquisitions on patients, workers, and communities. President Joe Biden recently ordered the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ...
A survey out Thursday shows that more than half of student loan borrowers in the United States say they would not currently be able to make a single monthly debt payment if they were required to, a finding that comes amid mounting calls for universal student debt cancellation. The new poll, conducted this month by the firm Payitoff, also [&hel...
