Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last week blamed America for Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. In a televised speech, Khamenei said “The root cause of the Ukraine crisis is the U.S. and the West’s policies.” He added, the U.S. government creates and “feeds on crisis” Iran itself has been criticized for providing vital...
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...
About 1.7 million Ukrainian refugees have crossed into neighboring countries in 11 days. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said Sunday it is the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. Previously, the Syrian war was considered the largest global refugee crisis. The UK has rejected opening its borders to Uk...
Thousands of people have applied to the Ukrainian embassy in Washington, D.C. in a bid to join the Ukrainian army in its fight against Russia. A military official at the embassy told Anadolu Agency they received more than 3,000 emails from those who wanted to go to Ukraine. They were asked to fill out an […]
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is facing bipartisan backlash after publicly calling for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assassination. In a Twitter post on Thursday, Graham referred to one of Roman ruler Julius Caesar’s assassins and the German officer who tried to kill Adolf Hitler. Graham called for someone in Russia to take Putin out, adding t...
Spain’s Interior Ministry denied wrongdoing Friday after a viral video showing several Spanish agents beating a young African migrant who crossed the border into the city of Melilla. The video was captured by Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE. It shows a young man, possibly a minor, slowly climbing down the border fence separating Spain’s Africa...
