LONDON – Former CNN reporter Saima Mohsin is taking legal action against the news network, alleging unfair dismissal and racial discrimination. Mohsin, who was incapacitated after an accident while reporting from Jerusalem in 2014, claims that CNN did not support her after the incident. She also alleges that she was denied high-profile b...
NEW YORK – An 86-year-old man was shot in New York as he was on his way to pray at his local mosque. The victim, identified as Homod Ali Saeidi, was pronounced dead at the scene. The incident took place on Saturday morning in the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens. The shooter, 25-year-old Thomas Abreu, […]
HOUSTON, United States (AA) – A defendant who killed 23 people at a Walmart store in Texas has been sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms. The murders took place in 2019. The shooting also injured 22 others. Patrick Crusius،, 24, had pleaded guilty in February. It was one of the deadliest attacks on Latinos in […]
DAMASCUS, Syria – Syria has withdrawn the accreditation of two local journalists working for the BBC. The Syrian Ministry of Information has accused the British broadcaster of engaging in false and politicized reporting. The ministry said the accreditations were withdrawn after noticing subjective and false information being spread about...
EDEN, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s Houthi rebels have imposed a ban on Swedish goods in response to burning of the Muslims’ holy book, the Quran. Houthi Minister of Industry and Trade Muhammad Sharaf al-Mutahhar said Swedish goods would not be allowed into areas held by the group. Speaking to the Houthi-run Al-Masirah television stat...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli government claims the sole right to exercise its sovereignty over the Palestinian territory of the West Bank. Israeli Government Secretary Yossi Fox told this to the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel called Adalah, on June 19. The contents of the letter were published in Israeli media on [&helli...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan has said the lack of access to Myanmar is hampering his investigation into the alleged Rohingya genocide. Speaking to reporters in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, he said he has access to war-torn areas of Ukraine but not to Myanmar. He said this affected...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has executed two men for an attack on a popular shrine in the southern province of Fars that killed 13 people. The two men, identified as Mohammad Ramez Rashidi and Naeim Hashem Qetali, were publicly executed in Shiraz, the capital of Fars province. According to the Mizan news agency, which […]
STOCKHOLM (AA) — Sweden is considering a ban on the desecration of the Muslim holy book the Quran. According to a local daily, Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer said his government is considering enacting a law to stop the burning of holy books. Strommer said such acts pose a threat to Sweden’s national security. They […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) — A three-day peace march marking the 28th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide ended Monday in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The march was attended by thousands of people from all over the world. They commemorated the more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims killed by Serb forces near the Nezuk town in 1995. The march […]
