TEHRAN (AA) – Four more prisoners injured in clashes and a fire at Tehran’s high-security Evin Prison have died, bringing the death toll to eight, according to the country’s judiciary. The Iranian judiciary’s media center said the four inmates died at a hospital due to the “severity of their condition,” whil...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Five people were killed and nine others injured in tribal fighting in Sudan, according to the military on Sunday. A military statement said clashes erupted between the Arab Misseriya tribe and the ethnic Nuba tribe in the town of Lagawa in West Kordofan state. Several homes were set ablaze in the […]
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisian mourners clashed with security forces after the death of a young man from injuries sustained during a police chase a month ago. Protesters threw rocks at security forces after Malek Sellimi’s funeral in the working-class neighbourhood of Upper Omran on the edges of Tunis, according to videos shared widely o...
LONDON (AA) – Hate crimes in the UK are on the rise because the government “tends to try to appease the far right by adopting some of their positions,” according to a prominent Muslim scholar. Anas Altikriti, CEO of Cordoba Foundation, told Anadolu Agency that the British Muslim community has sensed that “there is a […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The Bangladesh border force confiscated narcotics consignments worth over 130 million Bangladeshi taka (approximately $1.3 million) along the border with Myanmar on Saturday, officials said. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel recovered the drugs in two separate searches in Teknaf area on the southeast coast of Cox...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s military has secured the release of the remaining 23 passengers who were abducted by Boko Haram during an attack in March on a train in northwestern Nigeria, an official announced Wednesday. Usman Yusuf, Secretary of the Chief of Defense Staff Action Committee, said the captives were released around 4 p.m. ...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – At least 45 people have been abducted by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria’s Kaduna state according to official sources. Speaking to reporters, the president of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, Awemi Maisamari, said armed men on motorcycles stormed a church in the Kajuru local government area of Kaduna. In the attack...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A US judge has overturned the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, who had been convicted for the 1999 killing of his former girlfriend. Baltimore Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn vacated the conviction of Syed, granted a new trial, and ordered his immediate release after 22 years in prison. Syed, now 41, was found […]
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – The Nigerian secret service searched the office and home of bandits negotiator, Tukur Mamu, early Thursday in northern Nigeria, an offical told Anadolu Agency. Security operatives took laptops, phones and other documents from both locations. Mamu was arrested for his alleged involvement in collecting ransom and takin...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Nigerian police have rescued 15 children who were kidnapped in southern Rivers state, according to a security official. River State Police Commissioner Friday Eboka said police launched an operation because of the disappearance of children in the southern city of Port Harcourt. The children were rescued and taken to...
