Sweden, a country viewed as a safe haven for refugees, was set aflame when riots erupted last week. The unrest comes after anti-Muslim Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan announced his burning “tour” of the Quran during the month of Ramadan. More than 40 people have been arrested and some injured when protesters took to the st...
On Thursday, the Taliban-led interim government in Afghanistan banned TikTok as part of a drive to block “immoral” content. Inamullah Samangani, deputy spokesperson of the interim administration said on Twitter the social media app “misleads the younger generation,” The popular South Korean PUBG PUB JEE battle game has also been blocked, he sa...
Saudi Arabia may be banking on Donald Trump’s return to the presidency. The oil-rich nation has refused to help punish Russia for invading Ukraine. It has also placed $2 billion in an untested investment fund run by Trump’s son-in-law and former senior advisor Jared Kushner. The Biden administration has been looking for ways to reassure [&hel...
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts delivered a sharp warning to members of her party on Sunday: “If we don’t get up and deliver, then I believe that Democrats are going to lose.” Warren’s remarks to CNN came months out from the 2022 midterms, elections that will determine whether Democrats maintain contro...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Iran initially sought to develop a nuclear bomb to strengthen its deterrent forces but failed to maintain the secrecy of the program, a former deputy speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly said Sunday. “From the very beginning, when we entered the nuclear activity, our goal was to build a bomb and strengthen [...
PARIS (AA) – Emmanuel Macron has won a second term as French president, according to the full results released by the Interior Ministry on Sunday’s run-off election. Macron, the candidate of La Republique En Marche! Party, received 58.6% or 18,779,809 votes. Turnout was 72.37%, according to the ministry, the lowest since 1969. Macron ent...
On a day billed as “Solidarity Sunday,” Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited Amazon workers in New York City less than 24 hours before they start casting ballots on whether to form a union. Voting at Amazon’s 1,500-employee LDJ5 facility—located across the street from the JFK8 warehouse that made hist...
ANKARA – Twitter has announced that it will ban advertisements that deny scientific consensus on climate change. “Misleading advertisements on Twitter that contradict the scientific consensus on climate change are prohibited, in line with our inappropriate content policy,” the company said in a statement. Stressing that misleading inform...
GAZA, PALESTINE: Living in the blockaded Gaza Strip, Ibrahim al-Kahlout (42) contributes to the economy by producing traditional embroidered dresses for Palestinian women, which are considered as symbols of Israeli resistance. With high concentration, Ibrahim al-Kahlout, 42, inspects the work of sewing machines for making the traditional Pales...
TRIPOLI, Libya – Libya’s newly appointed government of Fathi Bashagha has dismissed reports about having been asked by Tunisia to leave the country where he had been residing. In a statement, the Libyan Foreign Ministry termed the reports as “fake” and “malicious rumors targeting the bilateral relations between the government and its Tunisian ...
