The U.N.’s International Court of Justice’s hearing on “allegations of genocide” against Russia, has begun in The Hague, the agency said Monday. The charge was brought on behalf of Ukraine against the Russian Federation under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Russia boycotted the hearing Monday during wh...
A Kuwaiti delegation walked out from a conference in Bahrain over the participation of Israel’s Tel Aviv University. The Kuwait-based Youths For Jerusalem League said on Twitter a delegation representing Kuwaiti universities withdrew from a lecture due to the Israeli delegation’s participation. Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, and Mor...
The 14th Emir of Kano and former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, is calling for religious tolerance among Nigerians while canvassing support for Islamic finance. Lamido Sanusi spoke Sunday in Lagos as the guest of honour at the fifth national discourse organized by The Companion, an association of Muslim businessmen and professionals. San...
British nationals and brothers Saeed and Sakil Dawood were brutally killed in the 2002 Gujarat, India riots. Twenty years later, U.K. parliament member Kim Leadbeater may be questioning the Indian government’s failure in convicting those guilty of their killings. Leadbeater is an MP for Batley and Spen in the northern English county of Yorksh...
Thousands of Sufi Muslim pilgrims gathered in Senegal’s capital of Dakar Friday for the first time since 2019 without COVID-related restrictions. The followers of the Layene Sufi Muslim brotherhood, dressed in long white cotton robes, met in the Camberene district in the northeast of the city. The annual pilgrimage was canceled in 2020 and 202...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least four security personnel were killed and over two dozen injured on Tuesday in a suspected suicide bombing in southwestern Pakistan. The second such bombing in less than a week occurred in the remote Sibi district of Balochistan province, just 30 minutes after President Arif Alvi left the town following [&...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The EU is preparing to consider the membership applications of Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia, EU term president France said Tuesday. In recent years both Georgia and Ukraine have had Russian-backed separatists on their territory, with Russian troops crossing into Georgia in 2008 and into Ukraine in 2014 and now, during th...
DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Libya has appointed an ambassador to Qatar for the first time in six years, according to a Libyan source on Tuesday. Mohamed Al-Lafi, one of the notables in al-Zawiyah city in the country’s west, was named ambassador to the Gulf nation, the source told Anadolu Agency. Al-Lafi has been a delegate […]
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Ennahda’s Rached Ghannouchi on Tuesday hailed the release of a senior party official by Tunisian authorities as “a new start” for the country. Noureddine el-Beheiry, Ennahda’s deputy leader, was released on Monday evening after being under house arrest since Dec. 31, 2021, over “terror” accusations...
WASHINGTON- US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has ordered the deployment of 500 more troops to Europe to bolster NATO’s capabilities against Russia. The measure has been taken in order to “augment” forces that have already been deployed to Europe. “These additional forces are going to be positioned to respond to the ...
