KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz pleaded not guilty to corruption charges when he appeared for questioning Thursday in a court in the capital Nouakchott. Aziz, 66, faces multiple charges including illicit enrichment, abuse of office, influence peddling and money laundering along with nine other d...
Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP): Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday criticised Russia’s treatment of the Muslim-minority Tatar community in Kremlin-controlled Crimea and vowed to recapture the peninsula from Russia during a first official state iftar. Russia wrested control of the Black Sea territory from Ukraine in 2014 and pushed throu...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Thousands of residents have been displaced after gunmen killed at least 47 mourners in a Nigerian northcentral state, an official said Friday. Paul Hembah, a security adviser to the governor of Bemue State, told Anadolu gunmen opened fire on villagers Wednesday during a burial in Umogidi in Otukpo Local Government. ...
NEW YORK (AA) – UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon have warned of a ”serious escalation” as Israel launched airstrikes in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip on Friday. ”The actions over the past day are dangerous and risk a serious escalation,” the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said in a statement. ̶...
GENEVA (AA) – Muslims are structurally discriminated against by banks and financial institutions in the Netherlands, as a result of the law to stop money laundering and terrorism funding, according to the national coordinator against discrimination and racism. Rabin Baldewsingh told Dutch daily Trouw that he receives extra signals from M...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon will lodge an official complaint with the UN Security Council over the deliberate Israeli aggression that took place early Friday, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. The ministry said Israel had violated Lebanon’s sovereignty by bombing areas in southern Lebanon. “Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates ...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian Foreign Minister Segey Lavrov has said that the West “is not hiding” that China is the “next target” after Russia, as well as any country that “dares to act independently.” “They do not hide that when Russia, as they put it, is ‘defeated,’ China will be the next ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Muslim world should be united against Israel’s attacks in Palestine, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a conversation with his Iranian counterpart on Friday. Erdogan and Ebrahim Raisi spoke over phone and discussed Türkiye-Iran relations and regional issues, including Israeli attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mo...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Several houses as well as health and educational facilities were damaged on Friday in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian residents and officials. The Israeli bombing also caused damage to a number of agricultural lands and vehicles, according to reporters on the scene. The Israeli ra...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has called on the UN Security Council to hold an “urgent” discussion about Israel’s latest attacks on Palestinian worshippers and subsequent developments. This demand was made by Zhai Jun, China’s special envoy to the Middle East, when he met with ambassadors from Arab states in Beijing on Friday, Foreign Ministry s...
