Ramallah: Thousands of Palestinians rallied throughout the occupied West Bank on Wednesday in support of the 6,000 prisoners held in Israeli jails for resisting the occupation. The rallies, which coincided with the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day marked April 17 every year, were held in Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarm, Qalqilya, Jericho, Toubas, Hebron, and Bethlehem, mainly at […]
Colombo: The number of people killed in the Sunday serial blasts in Sri Lanka has risen to 185, the local media reported. More than 500 injured people have been hospitalised in various hospitals, some of whom are in critical conditions. The multiple explosions hit two Catholic churches here in the national capital in the morning, […]
Tripoli: Fighting near Tripoli has killed 121 people and wounded 561 since commander Khalifa Haftar’s forces launched an offensive earlier this month to take the Libyan capital, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Sunday. WHO’s Libya account said on Twitter the organization was sending medical supplies and more staff to Tripoli, and denounced “repeated attacks […]
Jerusalem: Israeli occupation forces on Saturday night arrested five Palestinians, including Palestinian Authority’s Governor of Jerusalem Adnan Gheith, during raids targeting several areas in occupied Jerusalem. According to Palestinian news agency WAFA, Police raided Gheith’s house in Silwan neighborhood and arrested him. This is the fourth such arrest of Gheith in less than five months. […]
Ramallah: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed his appreciation to all those who contributed to the selection of Jerusalem as the permanent capital of Islamic culture. In his speech to the festival celebrating Jerusalem Capital of the Islamic Culture, launched in the West Bank city of Jericho on Friday, Abbas commended the Organization of Islamic Cooperation […]
Ramallah: Israeli occupation authorities detained more than 6,000 Palestinian children since 2015, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), WAFA reported Sunday. PPS said in a statement marking the Palestinian Children’s Day, which coincided on Friday, that 98 percent of the children held had been subjected to psychological and/or physical abuse while in Israeli custody. […]
Wellington: New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed never to say the name of the Christchurch mosque gunman. “He sought many things from his act of terror, but one was notoriety – that is why you will never hear me mention his name,” Ms Ardern said in an emotional address at New Zealand’s parliament. […]
Islamabad: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has called an emergency meeting of its Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) next Friday to discuss the causes, impacts and future strategy in the aftermath of the mosque shootings in New Zealand that had left over 50 Muslim worshipers dead. Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, Pakistani […]
Rabat: Director General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) Dr. Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri has warned against the growth of extremism and hate speech in the world against Muslims despite the great efforts exerted over the past three decades in the field of dialogue among cultures and alliance of civilizations. Altwaijri made the […]
FEDERAL PROSECUTORS in New York have reportedly begun a criminal investigation into Facebook and its data-sharing agreements with at least two smartphone manufacturers. A grand jury has subpoenaed records from the manufacturers, according to the New York Times, which first reported the existence of the criminal probe. The companies are just two of more than […]
