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The hearing of the Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice or ICJ is set to begin Monday in the Hague. Members of the persecuted Muslim minority have growing concerns over allowing Burma’s ruling military junta to participate in court proceedings. They believe it would be tantamount to supporting decades of killings and [...
United Nations special envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg shed light Tuesday on the deteriorating situation in Yemen at the U.N. Security Council briefing. Grundberg called for an end to the devastating conflict that began in 2014, as civilian casualties surge and humanitarian aid dries up. Ending the war is a choice, he said. His comments [&helli...
An Uyghur high school principal in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region is serving 18 years in prison for inviting two Uyghur scholars to give presentations. Sherep Heyit is principal of No. 6 High School in Korla, the second-largest city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It has been three or four years since Heyit disappeared, accordi...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC is reviewing its mask guidance as COVID hospitalizations ebb, according to director Dr. Rochelle Walensky. The agency is shifting its focus to hospitalizations as a key measure of the virus’ severity and guide for determining whether health safety protocols need to be tightened. Walensky sa...
Tourists in Somalia are flocking to visit an Ottoman-era castle as the Horn of Africa country recovers from weak governance and insecurity. Taleh Castle once hosted the Dervish movement led by Sayyid Mohamed Abdulle Hassan, one of the country’s freedom icons. Historical records suggest Hassan, backed by the Ottomans, had launched an armed stru...
The three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020 had sent a litany of racist social media posts and texts. That’s according to the second day of testimony Tuesday in the federal hate-crimes trial for Arbery’s murder in Georgia’s Brunswick U.S. District Court. Father and son, Greg and Travis McMichael, and their neighbor [&hell...
After seeing an anti-Muslim tweet by New Jersey state Sen. Ed Durr, Selaedin Maksut set out to explain Islam to the Republican lawmaker. Maksut, who heads the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ New Jersey chapter, didn’t expect anything would come of the meeting with Durr late last year. But surprisingly, Durr became an ally helping garner...
More Americans want to work remotely instead of going back to the office, according to a poll released Wednesday. The Pew Research Center survey found that more workers today say they are doing this by choice rather than necessity. Of those who have a workplace outside of the home, 61% said they are choosing not […]
A retired teacher who has been collecting materials on African American history for 60 years will put her collection on sale this month in New York City. Elizabeth Meaders, 90, of Staten Island, New York, has turned her house into a kind of museum, with more than 20,000 historical documents and items. Meaders, who loves […]
Local agencies are helping Afghan refugees in North Carolina rebuild their lives nearly six months after the last U.S. troops left Afghanistan, triggering a mass exodus. The Triangle Association of Muslim American Mothers held an event at the Islamic Association of Raleigh for Afghan women refugees to shop for free. The group spent three week...
