AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan has imposed a temporary ban on popular social media platform TikTok amid violent protests over fuel price hikes. In a statement, the Public Security Directorate said the widely used social media platform was suspended as it was used “for glorifying hate speech and for inciting chaos, attacking law enforcement agenci...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Far-right Zionist politician Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for the expulsion of all Al Jazeera journalists, accusing the television of spreading “false propaganda” against Israel. The call came shortly after the Doha-based network filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the point-blank killing of it...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A Jordanian filmmaker and producer is fighting stereotypes about Muslims with the help of virtual reality films on Islamic history. “We’ve been producers and filmmakers for over 10 years but we never thought that we will go into entertainment until we were in Disney,” Samah Safi Bayazid shared. Bayazid i...
HOUSTON, US (AA) – Elon Musk fired Twitter’s entire board of directors Monday, just a week after finalizing the $44 billion takeover of the social media giant. The swift move made the Tesla and SpaceX CEO the sole director of Twitter. “This is just temporary,” tweeted Musk after purging the company’s top leadershi...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has called for the designation of UK-based Persian-language news outlets as “terrorist organizations”, accusing them of stoking unrest amid ongoing protests over the death of a young Iranian woman in police custody. Kazem Gharibabadi, the deputy judiciary chief for international affairs and head of the coun...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A prominent Pakistani journalist and TV host, Arshad Sharif, was shot dead by police in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, his family and media reported on Monday. Sharif was shot in the head and killed by police after his driver and he allegedly breached a roadblock that had been set up to check […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Iran is a “victim” of disinformation, distortions and lies in media, the country’s culture and Islamic guidance minister said on Saturday. Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili told Anadolu Agency that Iran “has been experiencing” the problem of disinformation “for decades.” “We are currently faced with a media that seeks to create a false st...
PARIS (AA) – Tears of the Seine, an animated short film, has received attention in France and globally. The film has won a bronze medal at the Student Oscars in Los Angeles. It sheds light on the bloody police crackdown on the demonstration by Algerians in Paris on Oct. 17, 1961, in which hundreds of […]
AMMAN (AA) – In a tiff over a radio license application, Jordan has condemned the Dutch ambassador to the country for interfering in internal matters. Dutch envoy Harry Verweij requested a radio broadcast license for a citizen of a third country during a courtesy meeting with State Minister for Media Affairs Faisal al-Shboul, according to [&he...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A new investigation conducted by British and Palestinian groups concluded that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was deliberately killed by Israeli forces. The London-based Forensic Architecture and Palestinian Al-Haq rights group said the findings of their joint investigation were submitted on Tuesday to the I...
