A group of more than 100 millionaires and billionaires on Wednesday presented fellow members of the global economic elite with a stark choice: “It’s taxes or pitchforks.” The open letter was published amid the corporate-dominated virtual Davos summit. The 102 signatories included such prominent figures as Disney heiress Abiga...
A London-based law firm has filed an application with British police seeking the arrest of India’s army chief and a senior Indian government official over their alleged roles in war crimes in Kashmir. Law firm Stoke White says it has submitted evidence including 2,000 testimonies taken between 2020 and 2021 to law enforcement in the [&he...
A former senior officer in Spain’s National Police Corps claimed the 2017 terror attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils were organized by the country’s secret service. Jose Manuel Villarejo said the attacks were a bid to destabilize Catalonia before the independence referendum there. The attacks in August of that year included a truck running over ...
Israeli police were in a standoff Monday with a Palestinian man who carried a gas canister onto the roof of his home in Jerusalem. The man’s family has been facing the threat of eviction since 2017 in the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah area of Israel-annexed east Jerusalem. Israeli media reported Mohammed Salhiya had threatened to set […]...
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Muslims supported his words about the Prophet Muhammad, the Kremlin press service said Monday. Putin’s statements were made during an annual press conference on Dec. 23. He spoke about the “inadmissibility of any action under the cover of freedom of expression that...
French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour has been fined 10,000 euros for provoking racial hatred. Zemmour was convicted Monday by the Paris Criminal Court after he described migrants as “thieves,” “murderers” and “rapists” on a French news channel in September 2020. This is the third time Zemmour has been convicted of a hate offense. Despite...
Oxfam International’s latest report on global inequality shows how 21,000 people died each day of the pandemic, while the wealthiest collectively got $1.2 billion richer. Using data from Forbes, the report found the 10 richest people in the world more than doubled their collective wealth since COVID-19 hit in March of 2020. Meanwhile, the inco...
A possible drone attack at Abu Dhabi International Airport that caused an explosion and a fire on Monday killed three people and wounded six. Abu Dhabi police identified the dead as two Indian nationals and one Pakistani. They also said an investigation was underway. Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the attack. The Ira...
The Islamic Development Bank has launched a $1 billion financing plan to support renewable energy. Working with the Arab Petroleum Investment Corporation, the initiative will support utility projects in the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation countries. The funds will be for electricity generation and transmission projects using ren...
South Africa launched three locally produced nanosatellites into space Thursday. It was part of U.S. aerospace company SpaceX’s Transporter-3 mission. It marks the first launch of a satellite constellation developed entirely on the African continent. According to a government statement and a live webcast by SpaceX, the nanosatellites were lau...
