Israel’s crackdown on access to Al-Aqsa Mosque compound after two Israeli policemen were killed there last month provoked an eruption of fury among Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem and rocked Israel’s relations with the Arab world. Three weeks on, the metal detectors and security cameras have gone and, for now at[…]
Social media users have voiced frustration at what they described as a double standard after a mosque was bombed in the US. The explosion at around 5am local time (09:00 GMT) at the Dar Al Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, caused damage but did not cause any casualties. Worshippers[…]
Thousands of Palestinians marched in funerals on Saturday for four Palestinians slain by Israeli forces in July in the Bethlehem and Hebron districts of the southern occupied West Bank after Israeli authorities returned the Palestinians’ bodies on Friday. Muhammad Tnouh The funeral for Muhammad Tnouh, 26, was set off from[…]
Firefighters have extinguished a blaze that swept through one of the world’s tallest residential buildings in Dubai early on Friday, forcing occupants to flee their homes as burning debris showered down the sides of the 79-storey tower. Dubai’s civil defence authorities said firefighting squads put out the blaze by around[…]
Benjamin Netanyahu has boasted his government has done more than any to boost illegal Jewish settlements, as he laid the foundation stone for a new district in the 50,000-population illegal West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit. In a speech on Thursday, the Israeli prime minister said: “No other government has[…]
Suspected insurgents killed at least six members of a Buddhist ethnic minority in western Myanmar on Thursday, the government and regional sources said, amid spiraling violence in troubled Rakhine state. Security forces discovered the bodies of three men and three women bearing machete and gunshot wounds in the Mayu mountain[…]
Yousef Al-Otaiba, the UAE’s ambassador to the United States, is alleged to be involved in a major global corruption scandal. Leaked emails show a long-term relationship between Al-Otaiba and Jho Low, a Malaysian financier who law enforcement officials accuse of embezzling $4.5 billion dollars from the Malaysian 1MDB investment fund. The[…]
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, wanted on genocide charges by the International Criminal Court (ICC), arrived in Morocco late on Thursday for a “private” visit. Bashir arrived at Tangiers airport, accompanied by ministers and other senior Sudanese officials, according to the Le360 news site, considered close to circles in Morocco’s royal[…]
An Australian nurse has been jailed for 18 months in Cambodia for providing commercial surrogacy services. Tammy Davis-Charles was arrested in Phnom Penh in November last year, shortly after the Cambodian government had banned commercial surrogacy. During her trial the 49-year-old denied the charges and said she only provided medical[…]
Brazil’s lower house of congress voted on Wednesday to reject a corruption charge against President Michel Temer for allegedly taking bribes, saving him from facing a possible Supreme Court trial that could have ousted him from office. At least 172 of the 513 members of the lower Chamber of Deputies[…]
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