GENEVA (AA): The number of violent incidents involving Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territory stood at 591 in the first six months of 2023, the UN has reported. “That’s an average of 99 incidents every month and a 39% increase compared with the monthly average of the whole of 2022,” Jens Laerke, spokesperson for [&h...
UNITED NATIONS (AA): The UN has warned that hunger and displacement in Sudan are ”spiraling out of control” amid ongoing fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group. More than 6 million people in Sudan, about 13% of the population, are now one step from famine, according to the UN aid […]
GENEVA (AA): Recent “reckless” attacks on Islam’s holy book, the Quran, in Denmark and Sweden are “individual” provocations, the EU said on Thursday. “The EU has always been clear that manifestations of racism, xenophobia, and related intolerance have no place in Europe,” Nabila Massrali, the EU spokesperson...
ANKARA (AA): The top Indian court on Thursday continued hearing the case challenging the Indian government’s 2019 decision to scrap the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, with petitioners questioning the role of the parliament which abrogated the special status. As the second-day hearing began in the morning, senior Advocate Kapil Siba...
BERLIN (AA): The number of politically motivated attacks on refugee shelters in Germany has steadily increased since the beginning of last year, with 80 crimes reported in the first half of this year, mostly involving far-right activists as perpetrators and migrant Muslims from Afro-Asian origin as the victims. Following a parliamentary inquir...
WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the investigation led by Special Counsel Jack Smith. The indictment relates to Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump, who is now a leading Republican [&he...
NEW DELHI, India – A security guard in India shot and killed his senior colleague and three passengers on a train. The deceased passengers were Muslims. The constable, Chetan Singh, then jumped onto the tracks with his gun and began running. Eyewitnesses reported that the officer shouted slogans praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): The director general of Russia’s nuclear energy corporation Rosatom has said that Bangladesh will get the nuclear fuel for its lone nuclear power plant this September. Alexey Likhachev said this during a meeting with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the latter’s office in the capital Dhaka, the premier’s Pres...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng met Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday to discuss bilateral economic cooperation with a focus on the multi-billion-dollar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The Chinese vice premier, who is also the special representative of President Xi Jinping, arrived i...
STOCKHOLM (AA): Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Sunday he has been in close consultations with his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen over the burnings of the Quran in their countries. Kristersson said Sweden is experiencing its “most serious security situation” since World War II. “We are aware that states and ...
