The 2022 Olympic Winter Games began yesterday in Beijing under the cloud of a U.S.-led diplomatic boycott and the coronavirus pandemic. The opening ceremony is Friday and the Games continue through Feb. 20. The United States, Canada, the UK, and Australia have each announced a diplomatic boycott of the games, over concerns about China’s ...
The Taliban’s acting minister for higher education announced Monday that some public universities in Afghanistan will reopen today. Shaikh Abdul Baqi Haqqani said in a news release that state universities in warmer regions of the country will resume classes while those in colder regions will reopen Feb. 26. Haqqani said exams will be held thre...
Protesters in Burma closed businesses and stayed off the streets in a nationwide “silent strike” against military rule Tuesday. February 1 marked one year since the military coup in the country. That deposed the Southeast Asian country’s democratically elected government led by Aung Suu Kyi AUNG SAN SUU CHI.
Greece’s Turkish community on Tuesday condemned a provocative Islamophobic poster placed near a mosque in the northern part of the country. According to media reports the poster read: “Islamization of Evros (region) should be stopped now.” It was placed near the historic Chelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque near the Turkish-Greek border. The Friendshi...
For several weeks, a group of Muslim women at a college in India’s southern state of Karnataka has been barred from attending classes while wearing headscarves. Activists and experts said barring students from wearing hijab is an attack on the “symbols of faith.” The move comes as students globally marked World Hijab Day on Tuesday. […]...
Nahiem Pettiford robbed two men at gunpoint after he was unable to get into the donation box at a Jersey City mosque on Jan. 20, police said. Pettiford was taken into custody by Jersey City police on Jan. 26 in Newark. Police searched his car and found more than 300 bags of heroin, a handgun, […]
Women from 150 countries celebrated and observed the 10th World Hijab Day on Tuesday. The Michigan Senate passed a resolution last Friday recognizing the day statewide. The state is home to an estimated 300,000 Muslims. State Sen. Stephanie Chang introduced the resolution to the House. She worked with Asian Pacific Islander American Vote-MI’s...
The United States National Archives on Monday issued a rare statement confirming that the White House turned over records including paper documents previously ripped up by former president Donald Trump. White House records management officials during the Trump Administration recovered and taped together some of the torn-up records, the archive...
U.S. federal prisons were under lockdown on Tuesday after two inmates were killed during a fight at a Texas prison. In a statement to Anadolu Agency, the US Bureau of Prisons or BOP said it is securing its facilities in an abundance of caution and as a temporary measure to ensure order. Multiple inmates were […]
Over four million people in the U.S. quit their jobs in December, according to figures released Tuesday by the United States Department of Labor. That represents a decline of 200,000 from November, data showed. Job openings rose slightly by 150,000 to reach 10.9 million in December, up from 10.7 million in November. The market expectation [&h...
