Jamal Khashoggi’s Turkish fiancee told AFP that Turkey must keep insisting on justice for the slain Saudi critic, even as ties between Turkey and Saudi Arabia improve. Khashoggi’s grisly 2018 killing inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul worsened already rocky relations between the two countries. Hatice Cengiz HATEE JAY CHEN GAYZ was waiting...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country has been “left alone” to fight Russia. Zelensky asked Europeans on Friday with “combat experience” to take up arms and defend Ukraine against invading Russian forces, adding the West was too slow to help his country. His dramatic call for help came as some Russian forces repo...
Residents in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv woke up to their homes destroyed after Russia’s invasion force left a trail of damage in the city. Residential buildings lay in ruins as people begin to clear the rubble, and emergency services arrived. Images of Ukrainians in cities under attack sleeping in crowded metro stations for safety off...
Islam in Ukraine is the second largest religion after Christianity, although Muslims are still a small minority. Most Ukranian Muslims are refugees from different parts of the former Russian empire and the Soviet Union. That includes Tatars, Chechens, and Dagestanis who have suffered long at the hands of Russians. There are also Meskhetian Tur...
Rohingya Muslims in The Hague, Netherlands, gathered Wednesday to protest Burma’s junta regime, as the International Court of Justice or ICJ resumed hearing the Rohingya genocide case. Protesters held banners and chanted slogans demanding justice. The top U.N. court on Monday resumed the hearing in the case against Burma in which the junta re...
A recently passed amendment to the UK’s public service pension schemes is being slammed as a “deliberate assault” on the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions or BDS movement. BDS is a Palestinian-led movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel for its human rights violations and practice of apartheid against Pal...
A total of 1,807 communal riot cases were registered in parts of India during 2018 to 2020 in which over 8,000 people were arrested, the Rajya Sabha learned Wednesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said the highest number of communal riot cases were registered in Bihar, followed by Maharashtra and Haryana. A […]
The brides were dressed in elaborate and glittery kebayas, the Indonesian national costume. The grooms were clad in traditional wedding outfits. Both groups were all smiles as family members led them to the wedding venue Tuesday in Indonesia’s Bogor district, West Java province. The couples joined a mass wedding event held and sponsored by Sav...
French Muslims are protesting the government for neglecting Mayotte’s development, rising crimes and poverty. “We would like to know what we have done to suffer this way. Where is the state in Mayotte? Where is the State? The State has done nothing in Mayotte! There are slums everywhere. I tell you that France has ‘slummed’ [...
President Biden will nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, she is a federal appeals judge in Washington, D.C., It starts the process for seating of the nation’s first female Black justice. The White House made the announcement official Friday.
