JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s minister of justice and correctional services has requested that a judge reopen an inquest into the death of prominent Muslim anti-apartheid activist Imam Abudllah Haron who died more than 50 years ago. “The renewed investigation into the Apartheid Crime will consider expert reports from a state pathologist ...
BRUSSELS – Belgian Muslims and Jews presented 127,000 signatures protesting a proposed ban on the slaughter of animals using their traditional religious rules, known respectively as halal and kosher. On the last day of about two weeks of debate over the proposed ban in the capital region, representatives of the Muslim and Jewish communities an...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least two people were killed and three others wounded when a roadside bomb targeted security personnel in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police said. Salaad Ahmed, a police officer in Mogadishu, told Anadolu Agency that a soldier and a civilian were killed when a landmine explosion hit a military [&hell...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Four soldiers part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali were wounded Wednesday while repelling a terror attack in the Kidal region. The peacekeepers’ convoy faced direct fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades for about one hour, said the mission’s spokesman Olivier Salgado. The ...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar discussed on Wednesday regional defense and security issues with his Pakistani counterpart Khawaja Muhammed Asif, who is accompanying Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on a three-day official visit to Türkiye. Akar welcomed Asif with military honors at the National Defense Ministry ...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye’s president on Wednesday welcomed the Pakistani prime minister with an official ceremony in the capital Ankara. Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a Turkish delegation welcomed Shehbaz Sharif and his delegation – currently on a three-day official visit to Türkiye – at the presidential complex. Among the participants in ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A wildfire in a forest in eastern Afghanistan continued to rage for a fourth day on Wednesday as officials said strong winds were hindering operations. The fire erupted in Sham Dara forest in Nurgram district of Nuristan province over the weekend, according to the state-run Bakhtar News Agency. Attempts by the provincial [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – For the first time in the country’s history, Australia’s Cabinet will feature two Muslim members, local media reported. Anne Aly and Ed Husic, both Muslim members of parliament, were sworn into the Cabinet on Wednesday, SBS News reported. Husic will be minister for industry and science while Aly will serve as minister […]...
Fnideq, Morocco – (AFP): Spain opened the borders of its North African enclaves Ceuta and Melilla to Moroccan workers on Tuesday, two years after their closure and following the resolution of a drawn-out diplomatic crisis. The European Union’s only borders on African soil had been shuttered in 2020 at the height of the coronavirus ...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – (AFP): Israel signed a free trade deal with the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, its first with an Arab country, building on their US-brokered normalization of diplomatic relations in 2020. Two-way trade between Israel and the UAE last year totaled some $900 million dollars, according to Israeli figures. UAE...
