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KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso’s junta leader Lieut. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was inaugurated Wednesday as the transitional president. Dressed in a camouflage uniform, red beret and a sash in the colors of the nation’s flag, Damiba’s inauguration came weeks after he was sworn in Feb. 16 as interim president following his recog...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran and the United Arab Emirates are developing closer bilateral ties while the UAE is also simultaneously cozying up with Israel. Experts consider these to be unprecedented and very significant developments. What makes it still more intriguing is that hostilities between the Emiratis and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least three policemen were killed and over two dozen injured in an explosion in southwest Pakistan on Wednesday, an official said. The blast that targeted a police van in a busy street occurred in Quetta, the capital of southwestern Balochistan province, Bushra Rindh, a provincial government spokeswoman, said....
Asphalt roads in Afghanistan destroyed by explosions due to decades of conflict are being repaired by children. Afghan boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 15 fill pits created by mines and bombings with soil and gravel they collect from the roadside. These children work from sunup to sundown in difficult conditions to […]
Authorities in Istanbul, Turkey closed an Uyghur elementary school allegedly at the request of the Chinese government. Chinese officials worried students were receiving anti-China instruction there, the school’s principal and parents of students said. The Hira Uyghur Elementary School’s doors were closed Feb. 21 and more than 300 students were...
The Council on American Islamic Relations’ or CAIR’s Connecticut chapter is calling for a probe into a possible hate crime, involving two female Muslim students at the University of Connecticut. Junior Shazeda Khatun and senior Zena Saleh said a man screamed racial slurs at them, including the N-word, as they walked to their dorm Monday [&hell...
Prominent Muslims are calling for an immediate ceasefire to the bombing and fighting in Ukraine as the Russian military invasion advances. Zara Mohammed, Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain, spoke out against the war. She wrote in a tweet, “The only ones that truly pay the price for war are the innocent civilians who […]...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – Clashes between Pakistani security forces and Afghan Taliban were reported at the Wesh–Chaman border crossing, a Taliban spokesman said Thursday. The first was reportedly opened by Pakistani forces, Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter. “Leaders on both sides have been briefed and the situation is now under ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – At least three passengers were killed and one went missing after a passenger ferry capsized in a southern river in Bangladesh early Wednesday, an official said. The 28-meter-long (92 feet) wooden water vessel was carrying 45 people, including three crew members, when it collided with a big passenger ferry. The pr...
India dispatched wheat to Afghanistan on Tuesday to help alleviate food shortages after Pakistan gave permission to allow the shipments across their shared border. Senior Indian government officials flagged off the first convoy of 50 trucks carrying 2,500 metric tons of wheat donated by India to Afghanistan at Attari in the northern state of P...
