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...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Three Kashmiri students who were detained on charges of celebrating Pakistan’s victory against India in a cricket match last year have been granted bail. A court in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday announced the verdict. The students, Arhseed Yusuf, Showkat Ahmed Ganai and Inayat Altaf Sheikh, w...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US sanctioned an Iranian national and his network of companies Wednesday on charges of aiding Iran’s ballistic missile program. Mohammad Ali Hosseini used his network to procure items for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Research and Self Sufficiency Jihad Organization, which is responsible for T...
BAGHDAD (AA) – The Iraqi Parliament on Wednesday failed to elect the country’s new president for the second time in less than a week. A scheduled voting session failed to be held due to lack of quorum after dozens of lawmakers boycotted the meeting. Only 200 members of the 329-seat parliament attended Wednesday’s session, according […]...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – The Ukrainian General Staff said Wednesday that the Russian army was continuing to withdraw from the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions. The General Staff in a post on Facebook evaluated the 34th day of the Russia-Ukraine war. The statement said the Russian army could not fulfill the task of besieging Kyiv and […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli army forces early Wednesday detained 23 Palestinians, including a woman, in raids in the occupied West Bank, according to a Palestinian NGO. The detention campaign targeted the cities of Qalqilya, Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah and Bethlehem, the Asra Media Office said in a statement. In a related development,...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Mauritanian Prime Minister Mohamed Ould Bilal on Tuesday tendered his government’s resignation to the country’s president, an official statement said. The resignation came days after President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani severely criticized the government’s performance. “Most ministries do not have...
