Lyon, France (AFP): French authorities have been investigating as suicide the drowning of an Iranian man in the southeastern city of Lyon. The man had said on social media he was going to kill himself to draw attention to the crackdown against protests in Iran. Mohammad Moradi, 38, was found in the Rhone river that […]
With just a few days left until the new year, 2022 has already set a grim record: so far at least 6,036 children across the United States have been killed or injured by gunfire, according to the Gun Violence Archive. As of Tuesday, 306 children under age 12 were killed by guns and another 668 were injured nationwide. For […]
NEW YORK (AA) – The UN Security Council has urged the Taliban in Afghanistan to reverse policies and practices that further exclude women from public life. The 15-member Council on Tuesday expressed deep concern in a statement that the Taliban have suspended access to universities for women and girls. It denounced the suspension of schoo...
ANKARA (AA) – Australian Test cricketer Usman Khawaja has revealed that he had been harassed for being Muslim. After cricket writer Bharat Sundaresan complained on Twitter about security personnel at cricket venues around Australia stopping him and questioning his credentials several times, Khawaja replied with his own experience. “...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Marwa was just a few months away from becoming the first woman in her Afghan family to go to university — instead, she will watch achingly as her brother goes without her. Women have been “temporarily” banned from attending university in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The Taliban cite the lack of pr...
PARIS (AA) – The Paris prosecutor on Monday demanded the detention of a gunman, who was referred for indictment, after he gunned down at least three people in the French capital last week. On Friday, a 69-year-old gunman – retired train driver William M., reportedly a gun enthusiast with a history of weapons offenses – […]
Banda Aceh, Indonesia (AFP): A broken-down boat carrying 57 Rohingya refugees landed on Indonesia’s western coast on Sunday after a month at sea, police said. Thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya, heavily persecuted in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, risk their lives each year on long, expensive sea journeys — often in poor-quality v...
LAHORE, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s largest province Punjab faces political turmoil as the governor de-notified the chief minister and dissolved the provincial cabinet late on Thursday night. Chief Minister Parvez Elahi, leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Q which is the coalition partner of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in the province, o...
After a decade since the launch of the Fight for $15 movement in New York City, a record number of U.S. states and communities are going to raise the minimum wage in the new year. From New Year’s Eve to New Year’s Day, the minimum wage will increase in 23 states and 41 cities and counties, […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he had completed forming a new government with his allies in the right-wing camp, minutes before the end of the mandate given to him to accomplish the task. Netanyahu phoned President Isaac Herzog, who initially gave him a 28-day deadline to form a go...
