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NEW DELHI (AA) – India’s investigating agencies on Tuesday conducted several raids in the capital New Delhi and other parts of the country, detaining dozens of people associated with the Popular Front of India (PFI), a Muslim organization, over alleged terror links, police said. Today’s raids have come days after India’s Nati...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The death toll from floods in Pakistan has risen to 1638 with deaths of 42 more people across the country. Since mid-June, 12,865 have also been wounded in weather-related accidents, according to the country’s National Disaster Management Authority’s (NDMA) latest data. So far, 824,169 houses have been completely destroy...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Amid the economic crisis facing the country, Pakistan’s Finance Minister Miftah Ismail resigned hours after an alleged conversation between top ruling party leaders against him surfaced on social media. “In a meeting with Mian Nawaz Sharif and PM Shehbaz Sharif today, I have verbally resigned as Finance Minister. I will ...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon’s first grain ship departing from Ukraine under the historic Istanbul grain export deal arrived at Tripoli port in northern Lebanon on Monday. Ukrainian Ambassador Ihor Ostosh said Ukraine seeks to prevent an entire food crisis despite the negative impact of the Russian war on the country. He said that app...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi has submitted his resignation amid a political crisis in the country. A statement by the assembly said the Parliament will convene on Wednesday to vote on the speaker’s resignation. No details were provided about the reason for al-Halbousi’s resignation. Iraq has been locked in a dee...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Scores of Muslims as well as officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD) took part in the 38th Annual United American Muslim Day Parade in New York City on Sunday. The march, which began on Madison Avenue between East 24th and East 26th Street in Manhattan, drew Muslims from many nationalities […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Tensions are running high in occupied East Jerusalem as Jewish settlers continued their incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on Monday. Settlers protected by Israeli security forces stormed the compound as they mark the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, which began on Sunday. On Monday, Israeli officers shepherded in doze...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has closed the flashpoint Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to Muslim worshippers. The move comes as Israelis celebrate the Jewish New Year on Monday. “The Israeli army prevented the call for prayer from the mosque and made it off-limits to Muslim worshippers,” mosque director [&h...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The death toll from a boat capsize in Bangladesh’s northern district of Panchagarh rose to 40 while the search for dozens of other passengers continues, officials said on Monday. The passenger boat carrying mostly Hindu pilgrims capsized on Sunday while heading towards a temple in another area of the district in [&hell...
DOHA, Qatar/ ANKARA (AA) – Influential Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi died on Monday at age 97, according to his official Twitter account. The Doha-based International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) also confirmed the scholar’s death in a statement on its website. Qaradawi, an Egypt-born cleric who was based in Qatar, was the ...
