BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon’s prime minister announced Monday that he would not seek re-election in parliamentary polls scheduled for May 15. “I believe in the inevitability of change and the need to make room for the new generation to have its say through the upcoming parliamentary elections. I announce my decision to refrain from running,” [&helli...
PARIS (AA) – France has shut down a mosque for a six-month period amid an ongoing drive against Muslims and their places of worship. The Al-Farouk Mosque in Pessac district near the city of Bordeaux in southwestern France was closed for allegedly defending “radical Islam” and “spreading Salafist ideology,” the Gironde governo...
ERBIL, Iraq (AA) – Northern Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) summoned Iran’s consul general in Erbil early Tuesday over an Iranian missile attack on the city. “The reactions of the KRG and the people of Kurdistan regarding the attack, which sparked concern among the public, were conveyed to Nasrullah Rashnudi,” the KRG’s De...
CHRISTCHURCH – AA: One survivor of the attack on a mosque in New Zealand is on a journey for peace, walking the literal path of the killer, for closure. Temel Atacocugu, a Turkish man living in New Zealand for the past 13 years, was shot nine times at the Al Noor Mosque. He’s had so […]
Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators took to the streets in cities globally over the weekend voicing protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In Germany, a sea of people carrying yellow and blue signs reading “Stop Putin” and “Stop the War” gathered Sunday at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. Police estimated a turnout of between ...
The United Nations on Monday said that the number of refugees fleeing Ukraine has climbed to more than 2.8 million. It has become Europe’s fastest growing refugee crisis since World War Two. European Union officials say the number of refugees is likely to reach 5 million. Over one million Ukrainian refugees are in Poland, which […...
An American journalist was shot dead and another wounded Sunday in Irpin, a frontline suburb of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. The reporter was identified as 50-year-old video documentary shooter Brent Renaud (BRENT RENO) of New York. TIME magazine released a statement Sunday saying Renaud was in the region working on a TIME Studios project on the [...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday offered to help fighters from the Middle East, “who want to support” the rebel regions of Donbas to come to Ukraine. Putin explained his decision at a meeting of the Russian Security Council in Moscow. He added, Ukraine’s Western sponsors and its government “do not hide hiring mercenaries, they [&hel...
A mosque in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol (MARY OOPAL) remains intact amid clashes in and around the city, the head of the mosque association said Saturday. Ismail Hacioglu, (HAJI OGHLU) who heads the association of Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Mosque, said the Russian army has surrounded the city and has been shooting at the city […]
Pakistan on Saturday demanded a joint probe into the “accidental” firing of an Indian missile that landed in Pakistani territory last week. New Delhi on Friday acknowledged the missile accidentally fired during a routine maintenance due to “a technical malfunctioning.” The missile landed in Pakistan about about 150 miles from the Indian bord...
