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...
A university in Munich, Germany has apologized publicly to two Muslim women students for discriminatory practices during online exams. The incidents sparked widespread criticism on social media, prompting the apology. HM Hochschule Munchen HOT SCHOOL MEWNCHIN said on Twitter “it offered sincere apologies” to the students who were asked by inst...
A new U.N. report calls on Canada to amend legislation that potentially strips “tens of thousands” of Indigenous women of Indian status for marrying non-Indigenous men. While Indigenous women lose their status under Canada’s Indian Act, which was passed in 1876, their children cannot inherit their mother’s heritage status. Indigeno...
Yemen has seen a significant number of infectious diseases in various regions as the ongoing war has had a negative impact on the health sector. Health facilities are overcrowded with patients ravaged by various epidemics. Among the most prominent diseases currently prevalent in Yemen are dengue and viral fever. The continuing coronavirus outb...
An international body fighting money laundering says the United Arab Emirates isn’t doing enough to stop criminals and militants from hiding wealth there. Paris-based Financial Action Task Force on Friday placed UAE on its “gray list” of 23 countries, including Jordan, Syria and Yemen. The Emirates, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arab...
A boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya refugees, including dozens of children, landed on the coast of Indonesia’s westernmost province Aceh on Sunday, police said. The vessel sailed from a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh, arriving shortly after 3 a.m. on a beach in Bireun BIRI YOON district. It carried 114 people, including 58 men, 21 […]...
