NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AA) – Kazakhstan, which ranks first globally in crude uranium production, is taking steps to produce nuclear energy, a senior official said on Wednesday. Jaslan Kasenov, the head of the Nuclear Energy and Industry Department of the country’s Energy Ministry, told journalists in Nur-Sultan that Kazakhstan is curren...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan left for Moscow on Wednesday for a two-day visit to Russia amid escalating tensions in the region. During his maiden trip, Khan will meet President Vladimir Putin and other Russian leaders, including the deputy prime minister, as well as local businessmen and investors, the Prime Mi...
NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN – FEBRUARY 23: Disabled Afghans carried out a protest on Friday, Feb 23, against the US President Joe Biden’s executive order to seize half of $7 billion in assets held in US financial institutions. Protestors who lost their limbs during incidents of violence in the country’s eastern province of Nangarh...
TEHRAN, IRAN – FEBRUARY 23: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said they are optimistic about nuclear talks. “So far we are optimistic about the Vienna talks. We hope that some sensitive and important issues remaining in the negotiations will be resolved in the coming days with realism from the Western side,” h...
Britain on Tuesday sanctioned five Russian banks and three individuals in response to Russia’s recognition of Ukraine’s separatist regions. The Russian banks sanctioned are Rossiayaz Bank, IS Bank, General Bank, Promsvyazbank, and the Black Sea Bank, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced. Gennady Timchenko, Igor Rotenberg, and Boris Rotenberg...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – At least 59 people are dead and many injured following an explosion Monday at an artisanal gold mining site in southwestern Burkina Faso, local media reported. The powerful blast also caused a huge amount of material damage at the Gomgombiro gold panning site in Gbomblora, a village about 386 kilometers (24...
A total of 750 tons of emergency relief goods sent by a“charity train” from Turkey to Afghanistan was delivered to Kabul Monday. Medical aid packages were delivered to the Health Ministry of the interim Afghan administration in a ceremony. It was coordinated by Turkey’s state-run Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency and with the suppo...
Iran signaled “significant progress” Monday in talks on reviving a stalled accord on its nuclear program. But President Ebrahim Raisi, on his first visit to a Gulf state, insisted Washington must lift its crippling sanctions on Iran. The country’s president is a personal target of United States’ sanctions. Raisi spoke out ahead of a summit [&h...
Thirty-two Muslim groups wrote to US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona last week, saying the student debt crisis poses a major challenge for American workers and students, including Muslims. The letter was initiated by A Continuous Charity, CAIR, the Islamic Scholarship Fund, and the National Association of Muslim Lawyers. Nearly one-third ...
Afghanistan’s central bank on Saturday rejected U.S. President Joe Biden’s executive order to seize half of its $7 billion in assets held in American financial institutions. Da Afghanistan Bank said the decision to block their foreign exchange reserves and allocate them to “irrelevant” purposes is an injustice to the Afghan people. The bank sa...
