PARIS – A harmless desire to swim in the public pools with a full-body costume by a group of Muslim women in the southeastern Grenoble city of France has triggered a national outrage this summer. A French court on Wednesday May 25 suspended the decision by the Grenoble municipal council to authorize the long costume […]
ANKARA (AA) – Israel reportedly told the US that it was behind the killing of an officer of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the capital Tehran this week, according to The New York Times. Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodayee was shot dead outside his Tehran home on Sunday by two gunmen on a motorcycle. […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday gave a six-day deadline to the government to announce early elections. Khan arrived in Islamabad late on Wednesday night after an hours-long journey, and facing huge resistance from police. His supporters reached D-Chowk near parliament ahead of Khan’s a...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US sharply denounced North Korea on Wednesday after Pyongyang carried out a series of ballistic missile tests overnight, calling them a threat to security in the region and beyond. State Department spokesman Ned Price emphasized that the tests are in violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions, which prohi...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Wednesday with the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Hissein Brahim Taha, on the sidelines of the inaugural US-OIC Strategic Dialogue, according to the State Department. “Secretary Blinken thanked Secretary General Taha for the OIC’s sustai...
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Israeli forces have fired five teargas canisters toward the town of Al-Adaysah in southern Lebanon. Witnesses said Lebanese marking the anniversary of the Israeli troop pullout from southern Lebanon hurled rocks at a border fence with Israel. The National News Agency said Israeli forces fired teargas canisters at the ce...
ANKARA – The Norwegian Child Welfare Services (Barnevernet) has long been criticized for controversial decisions against migrant families, most of which were Muslim, hailing from crisis-ridden Middle Eastern and North African countries. Since 2015, the Barnevernet’s practices, mostly taking away children from their families by citi...
ISTANBUL – The US, Australia, India, and Japan have voiced “strong support” for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states and peaceful settlement of disputes “without resorting to threat or use of force, any unilateral attempt to change the status quo.” In a joint statement released by the White Hous...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Monday that it is providing over 300,000 children and youths in Nigeria’s volatile northeast who were forced out of their communities and schools following terrorist attacks with access to a special learning program. Paola Ripamonti, UNICEF education manager at it...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – More than 1,200 Palestinians were detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank last month, according to Palestinian NGOs. “A total of 165 minors and 11 women were among 1,228 Palestinians arrested by the Israeli army in April,” four Palestinian groups said in a joint statement. The occupied city of East […]...
