UN Experts Call On Vatican To Do More Against Child Abuse
GENEVA: Independent human rights experts working with the United Nations have urged the Vatican to do more to stop and prevent violence and sexual abuse...
Afghan President To Visit US on Friday
KABUL: Afghan leader Ashraf Ghani and the head of the country’s peace process will meet President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday, as...
Ebrahim Raisi Elected Iran’s New President
TEHRAN: Congratulations poured in for Iranian cleric Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday for winning presidential elections even before official results were announced. Iran s outgoing President...
Justice Mahmud Jamal Named as First Non-White Judge to Canadian SC
OTTAWA: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has nominated Justice Mahmud Jamal as the next member of the Supreme Court of Canada – the first non-white judge...
Saudi Arabia Asks Foreigners Must Register COVID-19 Vaccination Status Online Before Arrival
RIYADH: All foreigners travelling to Saudi Arabia must register their coronavirus vaccination status online before entering the Kingdom, state Press Agency (SPA) reported. The online...
Iranian Presidential Elections To Be Held on Friday
TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader urged voters on Wednesday to turn out in large numbers for the June 18 presidential election, saying such a show of...
Turkish President Meets His Azerbaijani Counterpart
WEB DESK: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met in the historic city of Shousha. According to Turkish media, Azerbaijan had...
Israeli Warplanes Attack Gaza Strip
GAZA: Israeli warplanes have carried out fresh attacks in the Gaza Strip, targeting Hamas. According to European media, Israeli forces claim that balloons laden with...
Two People Charged After Trying to Break into Toronto Mosque
TORONTO: Two people are facing charges after allegedly trying to break into a mosque in Scarborough, Toronto. Toronto police were called to the Islamic Institute...
Only Four Pilgrims Would Be Allowed in One Tent During Hajj: KSA
RIYADH: Muslims of all nationalities residing in Saudi Arabia are allowed to register for this year’s Haj pilgrimage equally, according to a Saudi official. “There...
NATO Announces End of Afghan Military Mission
BRUSSELS: Security officials under NATO command have approached Qatar to secure a base that can be used to train Afghan special forces as part of...
No Hajj For Pakistanis This Year
RIYADH: Due to the Corona epidemic, foreign pilgrims, including Pakistanis, will not be able to travel to Saudi Arabia for Hajj this year. According to...
Frenchman Given 4 Months in Jail For Slapping Macron
PARIS: A court on Thursday sentenced to four months in prison a man who slapped President Emmanuel Macron across the face after being angered by...
UN Security Council Backs Guterres For Second Term
NEW YORK: The United Nations Security Council backed Secretary General Antonio Guterres for a second term, recommending that the 193-member General Assembly appoint him for...
Ratko Mladic: Serb Crusader Dubbed ‘Epitome of Evil’
WEB DESK: Ratko Mladic insists he was chosen by “fate” to defend the Serb people from a Western onslaught, but on Tuesday he will find...
France President Emmanuel Macron Slapped In The Face
Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron has been slapped in the face on an official visit to the southeast of France. In a video circulating on...
Media Websites Links Down As Fault Interrupts Internet Globally
Web Desk: Multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at...
Muslim Family Killed In Canada Truck Attack
A man driving a pick-up truck slammed into and killed four members of a Muslim family in the south of Canada’s Ontario province, in what...
Chinese Man Kills Six, Injures 14 With Knife Attack
BEIJING: Police caught a suspect in a knife attack that killed six people and injured 14 on Saturday in the eastern Chinese city of Anqing,...
Seven Men Arrested Over Selling Seven Kg Uranium in India
NEW DELHI: Jharkand police have arrested seven people for possessing and planning to sell ‘mineral uranium’ in the black market. Police said that they seized...
Indonesia Cancels Hajj Pilgrimage Due To Coronavirus Concerns
JAKARTA: Indonesia has cancelled the hajj pilgrimage for people in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation for a second year in a row due to concerns...
WHO Validates Sinovac COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use
WHO has validated the Sinovac-CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving countries, funders, procuring agencies and communities the assurance that it meets international standards for...
Armed Men Kidnap 150 Students in Nigeria
An armed gang abducted 150 students from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger on Sunday, police and state government officials said....
Netyanhau’s Power In Danger
JERUSALEM: In a bid to unseat Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s, his rivals on Monday sought to finalise a unity coalition; however, political commentators saw...
China Allows Three Children
BEIJING: Married Chinese couples may have up to three children, China announced on Monday, in a major shift from the existing limit of two after...
China Allows Couples To Have Three Children
BEIJING: China has further relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have a maximum of three children after a recent census showed its...
UK PM Boris Johnson Marries For Third Time
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday, capping a week of political drama with a wedding...
Ind-Pak Ceasefire Along LoC Contributed To Feeling Of Peace: Indian Army Chief
New Delhi: : Indian Chief of Army Staff General M M Naravane has said that the ceasefire between Indian and Pakistani armies along the Line...
Biden budget: President Sets out $6tn Spending plan
President Joe Biden on Saturday unveiled a $6 trillion budget for next year that’s piled high with new safety net programs for the poor and...
Saudi Arabia Lifts Ban From Travelers Arriving From 11 Countries
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia is lifting a ban on travelers arriving from 11 countries that it had imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the...
Syria’s Assad Re-Elected As President For 4th Term
Damascus: Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth term as the president of war-ravaged Syria, official results showed. The parliamentary speaker announced that Assad...
Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier Didn’t Say Covid Vaccine Recipients Will Die
An Indian magazine’s Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that Luc had called the idea of vaccinating masses during the pandemic an unacceptable...
Military Detain Mali’s President, PM and Defence Minister
Military officers in Mali detained the president, prime minister and defence minister of the interim government on Monday, deepening political chaos just months after a...
Iran Agrees to Extend IAEA Nuclear Monitoring Deal For One Month
TEHRAN: Iran has agreed to extend by one month an agreement allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to keep surveillance cameras at nuclear sites....
EU Agrees New Belarus Sanctions After plane Arrest
Brussels: The EU has decided to ban Belarusian airlines from European skies after a flight was diverted to Minsk on Sunday and a dissident journalist...
Five More Bodies Found in Gaza
GAZA: In search of life in the rubble of buildings, Palestinians returned to their destroyed homes in Gaza after the Israeli bombardment stopped, and found...
Nigerian Army Chief Dies in Plane Crash
Nigeria’s top-ranking army commander Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru and other officers were killed on Friday when their plane crashed in bad weather in the country’s...
Israel, Palestinian Groups Agree Gaza Ceasefire
GAZA CITY: Israel and the two main Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, announced a ceasefire aimed to end the most devastating conflict between them...
UN Chief Calls For Immediate End to Israeli Aggression on Gaza
NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an immediate end to tensions following an Israeli aggression on Gaza. “I am deeply shocked by...
Israeli Attacks On Gaza: UNGA To Hold Emergency Session Today
NEW YORK: The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will hold an emergency session on Thursday (today) to discuss Israeli aggression and the grave situation in...
UNGA To Meet on Thursday To Discuss Palestine Issue
The session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on the issue of the latest Israeli assaults on Palestine to take place on Thursday. According...