President Joe Biden announced a ban on US imports of Russian oil on Tuesday. “Today I am announcing the United State is targeting the main artery of Russia’s economy. We’re banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy.” US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, criticized President Joe Biden over repor...
Poland is welcoming Ukrainians fleeing the war in sharp contrast to its treatment of previous waves of refugees from Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. In 2021, Poland aggressively stopped refugees on the Belarusian border. Now, Polish men and women have been traveling to the border in private cars to offer rides to refugees. Meanwhile, European Un...
Russia has become the world’s most sanctioned country due to its war on Ukraine. The international community has imposed 2,778 new sanctions on Moscow in just under two weeks since Russian troops invaded Ukraine. The total number of sanctions increased to 5,532, according to the global sanctions monitoring database Castellum.ai. By comparison,...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last week blamed America for Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. In a televised speech, Khamenei said “The root cause of the Ukraine crisis is the U.S. and the West’s policies.” He added, the U.S. government creates and “feeds on crisis” Iran itself has been criticized for providing vital...
The U.N.’s International Court of Justice’s hearing on “allegations of genocide” against Russia, has begun in The Hague, the agency said Monday. The charge was brought on behalf of Ukraine against the Russian Federation under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Russia boycotted the hearing Monday during wh...
A Kuwaiti delegation walked out from a conference in Bahrain over the participation of Israel’s Tel Aviv University. The Kuwait-based Youths For Jerusalem League said on Twitter a delegation representing Kuwaiti universities withdrew from a lecture due to the Israeli delegation’s participation. Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, and Mor...
The 14th Emir of Kano and former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, is calling for religious tolerance among Nigerians while canvassing support for Islamic finance. Lamido Sanusi spoke Sunday in Lagos as the guest of honour at the fifth national discourse organized by The Companion, an association of Muslim businessmen and professionals. San...
British nationals and brothers Saeed and Sakil Dawood were brutally killed in the 2002 Gujarat, India riots. Twenty years later, U.K. parliament member Kim Leadbeater may be questioning the Indian government’s failure in convicting those guilty of their killings. Leadbeater is an MP for Batley and Spen in the northern English county of Yorksh...
Thousands of Sufi Muslim pilgrims gathered in Senegal’s capital of Dakar Friday for the first time since 2019 without COVID-related restrictions. The followers of the Layene Sufi Muslim brotherhood, dressed in long white cotton robes, met in the Camberene district in the northeast of the city. The annual pilgrimage was canceled in 2020 and 202...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least four security personnel were killed and over two dozen injured on Tuesday in a suspected suicide bombing in southwestern Pakistan. The second such bombing in less than a week occurred in the remote Sibi district of Balochistan province, just 30 minutes after President Arif Alvi left the town following [&...
