WASHINGTON – Two advocacy groups are launching a campaign to disqualify former President Donald Trump from running for another term. Free Speech for People and Mi Familia Vota are planning rallies and dropping banners to advocate for Trump’s legal disqualification. They are invoking Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits ...
TORONTO (AA) – U.S. President Joe Biden announced the destruction of the last munitions from the U.S. chemical weapons arsenal. He said the U.S. has safely destroyed the last munition in its stockpile. A White House statement said the U.S. has been working to eliminate its chemical weapons stockpile for more than 30 years. Biden [&hellip...
NEW YORK (AA) – The U.S. state of Texas is building a barrier on the Rio Grande River border to keep out irregular migrants. A tweet from the Texas Department of Public Safety showed images of large orange buoys being transported to be installed on the river in the town of Eagle Pass. Texas shares […]
ANKARA, Türkiye – Prominent Afghan citizens have launched a campaign to force the Taliban to allow the reintroduction of girls’ education in Afghanistan. One of the members of this campaign, Fazl Hadi Wazeen, told Muslim Network News that this campaign has been launched both inside and outside Afghanistan. Wazeen, an academic and p...
SFAX, Tunisia – Clashes broke out between African immigrants and locals in Sfax, Tunisia’s second largest industrial city. Violent incidents were reported between the two communities following an altercation between a Black African and a local that left one person dead. Eyewitnesses saw Black Africans leaving the city to seek safety. Tun...
NEW DEHLHI, India – An Indian court on Wednesday sentenced 10 men for 10 years in jail for lynching a Muslim man four years ago. Tabrez Ansari, 24, was beaten to death by a Hindu mob in the eastern state of Jharkhand in 2019. The convicts, who accused Ansari of theft, had tied the 22-year-old […]
ROME (AA) – A European investigation has led to the arrest of 15 people accused of smuggling people from Syria to EU countries. According to the investigation, the network used an unusually long and expensive route to smuggle migrants into Europe. From Syria, the migrants were headed either to Sudan, the United Arab Emirates or […...
GENEVA (AA) – An independent fact-finding mission has called on Iranian authorities to end their crackdown on protesters. The mission called on Tehran to end the wave of executions, mass arrests, and detentions. The mission had been mandated by the U.N. Human Rights Council to prepare a report on Iran. Protests had erupted in Iran [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – The 57-member bloc of Islamic countries has called for the use of art and media to combat Islamophobia. A meeting of the grouping’s broadcasting union stressed the need to improve understanding of the use of freedom of expression in the media. Wahid Ali Sindi, director of information for the Organization of Islamic [&hellip...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The U.N. has urged the Taliban not to implement its recent order to close beauty salons. Speaking to Türkiye’s Anadolu news agency, U.N. official Farhan Haq said the restrictions will have a negative impact on the Afghan economy. It also contradicts stated support for women’s entrepreneurship. Haq said t...
