ANKARA (AA) – The Muslim community in Belgium is contesting new sexuality education methods in schools, according to a statement. “This decision seems to confront the universal and inviolable values of the familial education framework, and the interests of the students and their families,” Muslim associations said in a statem...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called Tuesday for measures to slow the birthrate in the Arab world’s most populous country, citing China’s one-child policy as an example. “We need 400,000 births per year,” said the leader of the country of 105 million inhabitants which recorded nearly ...
ANKARA (AA) – India’s top court on Tuesday finished hearing arguments on petitions challenging the legality of the legislation passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in 2019 that stripped disputed Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood, and its special status. The Supreme Court’s constitutional bench, led by Chief Justice Dhananjaya ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh — AFP Thousands of Bangladeshi protesters marched on Wednesday demanding information on hundreds of people they say security forces have abducted during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s nearly 15 years in power. Opposition supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its allies joined families of those m...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia will hold a defining Indigenous rights referendum on October 14 to recognize the role of the country’s Aboriginal minorities in the Constitution. “On that day, every Australian will have a once-in-a-generation chance to bring our country together,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement as he announce...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Various media watchdogs have condemned the move by Indian authorities to restrict access to the website and social media accounts of independent news outlet The Kashmir Walla. The International Federation of Journalists issued a statement saying that there is an overstepping of power to exert censorship...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, a leading figure in the country’s 2011 uprising who has spent the past decade behind bars, walked free from prison Saturday following a presidential pardon. Douma, now 37, was a leading activist in the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime president Hosni Mubarak. He was arrested in t...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): The Bangladeshi government decided to amend the controversial Digital Security Act on Monday, renaming it the Cyber Security Act and removing the jail sentence for defamation after the journalist fraternity and human rights groups criticized it for being used to silence opposition voices. “We have transferred the ...
ISTANBUL (AA): Calling for respect for the fundamental rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, speakers at an international conference in Istanbul on Friday sought the resolution of the Kashmir dispute on the basis of UN resolutions. Lawmakers, diplomats, activists and civil society members from Türkiye, Kuwait, Pakistan and Kashmir spoke a...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Kashmiris residing in Pakistan and both parts of the disputed Kashmir valley on Wednesday observed “Accession Day.” The day marks the adoption of a resolution by the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference at a convention in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, on July 19, 1947, that called ...
