Hundreds of reports chronicling decades of attacks in Indian-held Kashmir have disappeared from local newspapers’ archives. It includes one of the most comprehensive NGO reports on decades of violence and killings in the disputed region, which was published by a respected rights organization.. The disappearance also includes the Greater Kashm...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a statement in response to reports that Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar spoke at a white nationalist event. The America First Political Action Conference in Orlando was organized by Nicholas Fuentes, a white-nationalist activist. Fuentes rose to prominence after attending th...
The Council on American Islamic Relations’ or CAIR’s Connecticut chapter is calling for a probe into a possible hate crime, involving two female Muslim students at the University of Connecticut. Junior Shazeda Khatun and senior Zena Saleh said a man screamed racial slurs at them, including the N-word, as they walked to their dorm Monday [&hell...
A 37-year-old Pennsylvania man connected to the January 6, 2021 US Capitol riot ended his own life on Feb. 25, according to investigators. Matthew Perna pleaded guilty in December to entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds and other charges stemming from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. That includes obstruction of an official [&he...
Diversion of air traffic due to Russia-Ukraine partially responsible for more aircraft over Kazakhstan. NUR SULTAN (AA) – The number of aircraft passing through the airspace of the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan rose threefold over the last 24 hours, partially due to the Russia-Ukraine war, authorities said Monday. In a statement, th...
Ukraine has taken Russia to the International Court of Justice over its invasion. Ukraine’s ambassador warned the world that if his country is crushed, international peace is in peril. He was addressing the United Nations, General Assembly in a rare emergency session to discuss Russia’s attack on Ukraine today. The meeting gives all 193...
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova threatened “military and political consequences” against Finland and Sweden if they attempted to become NATO members. Finland has a 830-mile land border with Russia, which is the longest border shared by any EU member state and Russia. On Sunday, Sweden announced it would break its doctrine...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine could affect wheat supplies in the Arab world where millions are already struggling to survive. Russia is the world’s top wheat exporter and Ukraine is the fourth, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Any disruption in supplies “could trigger renewed protests and instability” in several Middle Eastern an...
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Europe on Sunday denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They were dressed in the blue and yellow of Ukraine’s flag and carried posters reading “No World War 3” and “Russians go home.” Demonstrators chanted “shame” against Russian President Vladimir Putin while others waved ban...
Prominent Muslims are calling for an immediate ceasefire to the bombing and fighting in Ukraine as the Russian military invasion advances. Zara Mohammed, Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain, spoke out against the war. She wrote in a tweet, “The only ones that truly pay the price for war are the innocent civilians who […]...
