ISTANBUL (AA) – Arab countries have condemned the desecration of the Quran in The Hague, Netherlands, saying it was a deliberate offense to one of the world’s great faiths. A video on social media on Monday showed Edwin Wagensveld, a far-right Dutch politician and leader of the Islamophobic group Pegida, carrying out the desecration of [&helli...
NEW YORK (AA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on the Swedish government Tuesday to condemn the recent burning of the Muslim holy book, the Quran, outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm. ”While CAIR does not hold the government of Sweden responsible for this act of hate, Prime Minister (Ulf) Kristersson’s...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has claimed that Washington’s timely intervention was instrumental in preventing a nuclear war between archrivals Pakistan and India in 2019. In his recently published memoir “Never Give an Inch,” Washington’s former top diplomat revealed that the two neighbors were ...
Tehran, Iran (AFP): Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has set the tackling of galloping inflation and currency devaluation as priorities for the 2023-2024 budget presented to the parliament. The pledge came as the Iranian currency touched a new low. Addressing MPs, Raisi tried to reassure Iranians about the economy which faces a serious crisis d...
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP): The national power grid was restored in Pakistan, the energy minister said on Tuesday, a day after a nationwide breakdown left most of the country’s 220 million people without electricity and caused tens of millions of dollars in industry losses. The outage started around 7:30 am (0230 GMT) on Monday, a failure...
AMSTERDAM (AA) – A far-right Dutch politician, and leader of the Islamophobic group Pegida, tore out pages from a copy of the Quran in The Hague, the administrative capital of the Netherlands, on Sunday. Edwin Wagensveld shared a video of his provocative act on Twitter which took place in front of the parliamentary building in […]
Mogadishu, Somalia (AFP): At least six people were killed in an attack by Al-Shabaab militants at the mayor’s office in central Mogadishu on Sunday, police said. A suicide bomber set off a huge blast that tore through a building near the office complex with gunfire starting afterwards, Somali police spokesman Sadik Dudishe said at the [&...
Aleppo, Syria (AFP): A building collapsed in Syria’s war-damaged second city of Aleppo, killing 16 people including children, on Sunday. Much of Aleppo was destroyed during Syria’s conflict that began nearly 12 years ago and left many of the remaining structures in a decrepit state. “The number of victims of the residential b...
ANKARA (AA) – US Ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, said Sunday he received assurances that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will preserve the status quo at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque complex. Nides said he was not “supportive” of the visit by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Jan. 3 to the Al-Aqsa complex. The v...
NEW DELHI (AA) – The Indian government has blocked all social media content related to the first episode of the BBC documentary “India: The Modi Question.” The documentary pertains to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership as chief minister of western Gujarat state during the 2002 riots that killed close to 2000 people, m...
