RAMALLAH, Palestine – Palestine has accused Israel of exploiting most territory of Area C in the occupied West Bank. “The Israeli occupation directly exploits 76% of the total area classified (C),” the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said in a statement marking the 46th anniversary of the Land Day. Under the 1995 Oslo Accords be...
China’s largest city Shanghai, home to 28 million people and a major manufacturing hub, is in its third day of lockdown due to the latest COVID variant. Meanwhile, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized a second booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna coronavirus vaccines for older people. On Tuesday, the agency said the [&hel...
On Tuesday, a Palestinian who opened fire killing five Israelis was shot dead near Tel Aviv. The attack brought the number of people killed in the past two weeks to 11, making it one of the deadliest periods in Israel in several years. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned of a “wave of murderous Arab […]
Authorities in Bahrain’s capital Manama shut down an Indian restaurant after it denied entry to a woman wearing the hijab. Video footage of restaurant staff barring a veiled woman from the restaurant in the Muslim-majority country went viral on social media causing outrage. On Friday, the friend of the woman in question explained what happened...
On Monday, officials said Bangladesh has shut the largest private school for Rohingya refugees. Since December, Bangladeshi authorities have been shutting down schools set up by the Rohingya, and late last week closed Kayaphuri School. The school was set up by Mohib Ullah, a prominent Rohingya community leader allegedly gunned down in Septembe...
On Monday, the Tunisian Human Rights League condemned military trials being held for civilians. Anadolu news agency reports that the group called for the acceleration of revising relevant laws, including the Terrorism Law. That legislation has resulted in journalists being prosecuted with impunity, as well as restrictions on human rights acti...
A member of the Karnataka legislative council in India called the banning of Muslims from conducting business on temple grounds “illogical.” Senior leader of India’s ruling BJP party H. Vishwanath said the government should break its silence and take action against temple authorities. He said the state of Karnataka is moving in the wrong direc...
On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law legislation finally making lynchings a federal hate crime It ends more than a century of delays in outlawing the symbol of what Biden calls “pure terror.” Anyone convicted under the new law will face up to 30 years in prison. Researchers say there were thousands of […]
Leaders of the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Italy on Tuesday urged the West not to drop its guard against Russia. Moscow signaled it would scale down fighting around the Ukranian capital Kyiv and another city. “I had a meeting with the heads of state of four allies in NATO: France, Germany, the United […]
Training programs for four conventional banks on Islamic banking and finance have been conducted in Uzbekistan. The programs were developed by the Islamic Development Bank Institute and the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector. The five-day training for each bank included the following subjects: principles of Islamic f...
