ISTANBUL (AA) – The 38th ministerial meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in the fields of economy and commerce began in Istanbul on Saturday. The four-day meeting of the Committee for Economic And Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) will discuss economic developments in the world, with special reference to OIC member cou...
ANKARA (AA) – White supremacist Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 people in a terrorist attack at a mosque in New Zealand in 2019, has filed an appeal against his life sentence, local media reported on Tuesday. A court spokesman confirmed the appeal was filed on Nov. 3 and said no date has been set for […]
Awali, Bahrain (AFP): One of the world’s leading Islamic clerics on Friday called for dialogue between the faith’s two main currents to settle sectarian differences, in an address to religious leaders. Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Cairo’s prestigious Al-Azhar mosque, a centre of Sunni learning, made the rare appea...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani businessman, who was the oldest prisoner at the notorious US detention center Guantanamo Bay, returned to Pakistan on Saturday after more than 18 years, the Foreign Ministry confirmed. In 2003, US intelligence operatives arrested Paracha, now 73, in Thailand on charges of having links to ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least two Pakistan Army troops were killed in a clash with suspected militants in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, the military said. The gun battle took place on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan and has long been a hotbed of militanc...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Multiple casualties were reported after two bomb blasts shook Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday. One of the blasts targeted the Somali Education Ministry at the busy Zoobe intersection, said a police officer who spoke to Anadolu Agency over phone on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talki...
Malika MacDonald, a domestic violence survivor, overcame several abusers over the course of her life. MacDonald had been on her own since she was 15. She married her abuser when she was only 18. Her then-husband, who was addicted to crack cocaine, threatened to kill her and their two young children. She fled her home […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army arrested 30 Palestinians on Thursday during raids in several cities and towns in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Prisoners Club, a non-governmental organization, stated that the Israeli army “carried out a campaign of arrests that targeted 30 Palestinians from several governorates...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Moulana Muhammad Abbas Ansari, a religious leader and former chairman of Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of Kashmiri parties, passed away on Tuesday. The 86-year-old leader passed away at his residence in Srinagar. He had been ill for several years and was hospitalized for a few days recently. Hurriyat Confe...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), which underscores the need to combat Islamophobia and hatred against Islam in all its manifestations, has called for “utilizing new and emerging platforms and technological innovations to present truth” about Islam effectively. A declaration adopted at the end of the two-day 12th Co...
