5 newborn babies freeze to death in Gaza
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NEW DELHI (AA) – A Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker was arrested for making derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings Be Upon Him). The offensive content has sparked large scale protests in Hyderabad city in India’s southern Telangana state. Thakur Raja Singh, the BJP member of the state Legisla...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Another 39 people have fallen prey to the raging floods caused by torrential downpours in southern and northern Pakistan over the past 24 hours, pushing the overall toll to over 700 since June. The majority of the deaths have been reported in the provinces of southern Sindh and southwestern Balochistan, where […...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak will go to jail for 12 years as the country’s top court has upheld his conviction in a corruption scandal. A five-member bench of the Southeast Asian nation’s Federal Court upheld the sentence and conviction of Razak, 69, imposed by the Kuala Lumpur High Court in […]
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq’s top judicial body has suspended its activities following a sit-in staged by supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr. In a statement, the Supreme Judicial Council said it decided to suspend all judicial activities after al-Sadr’s supporters staged a sit-in outside the gates of the body’s Baghdad headquarters to demand the diss...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An officer belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been killed in Syria, according to the Iranian media. The semi-official Mehr news agency said that Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Alijani was killed while on duty on the evening of Monday in Syria. The circumstances of his death are not yet clear. […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Another section of the grain silos at Beirut port has collapsed, sending heavy clouds of dust into the air affecting air quality in the area badly. No injuries were reported in Tuesday’s collapse. A large part of grain silos at the Beirut port collapsed in recent weeks as a result of […]
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The EU foreign policy chief on Tuesday said that a nuclear deal with Iran could be reached as early as this week. Earlier this month, the EU sent “a final text” to revive the 2015 deal, which would see Iran scale back its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. “. […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The United Nations special envoy for Myanmar, Noeleen Heyzer, on Tuesday visited the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh to assess the conditions of the persecuted people in the crammed settlement where they have been living for five years. “The visit aims to know how Rohingya are living in the camps and […]...
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP): Pakistan opposition leaders warned Monday that authorities would cross a “red line” if they arrested former prime minister Imran Khan after he was reported under the anti-terrorism act for comments he made about the judiciary. Since being ousted by a vote of no confidence in April, Khan has held mass rall...
Cyprus (AFP): A group of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank flew abroad from an airport in Israel’s Negev desert for the first time Monday, arriving in Cyprus under a newly launched pilot scheme. An AFP correspondent said around 25 Palestinians arrived on Israel’s Arkia airlines flight from Ramon airport, near the southern Is...
