A New York man was charged on Monday with second-degree murder in the deaths of a New York Muslim imam and his assistant, who were gunned down at the weekend, a police spokesman said. The charges against Oscar Morel, 35, of Brooklyn, came just hours after hundreds of mourners gathered[…]
Egyptian judoka Islam El Shehaby has been sent home from the Rio Olympics after refusing to shake the hand of Israeli Or Sasson following the end of their bout, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday. El Shehaby, who was sent home by his own team, lost the fight on[…]
A series of bomb blasts that killed four people and wounded dozens in tourist towns across Thailand last week shattered the country’s carefully crafted image of laid back beaches and gilded Buddhist temples. No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but authorities have been quick to deny any involvement[…]
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he will introduce “extreme vetting” of immigrants and set up a new “commission on radical Islam” if he wins the US election in November. In a foreign policy speech on Monday, the billionaire businessman said the goal of the new commission would be[…]
Saudi Arabia’s new ‘post-oil’ economy plan as outlined in ‘Vision 2030’ which was announced recently, is receiving a huge boost from the tourism sector with the influx of tourists visiting the country for their hajj pilgrimage starting this week. According to the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah, more than 600,000[…]
Police in New York City are searching for the man who fatally shot the leader of a mosque and a friend as they left afternoon prayers, setting off fear and anguish among the community’s Bangladeshi Muslim immigrants. Although police said no motive had been established for the killing of Imam[…]
For 9.81 glorious seconds on Sunday, all the ills that have dogged athletics recently were forgotten as Usain Bolt stormed to victory in the 100 meters final to become the first man to win three successive Olympic titles on the track. The Jamaican superstar trailed arch-rival Justin Gatlin, roundly booed[…]
Refugee children as young as seven have been sexually assaulted in official EU migrant camps in Greece, where children and women are said to be too afraid to go outside their tents when it’s dark, a report states, citing charities working at the venues. The revelations were published in the[…]
At least 64 people have been killed in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in an attack carried out by suspected rebels. Nyonyi Bwanakawa, the mayor of Beni in North Kivu, told Al Jazeera the attack on Saturday night happened in the town’s Rwangoma district. DRC troops and local officials[…]
At least 25 people have been killed and 25 more injured, some critically, after a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest on a bus in Syria’s Idlib province, adjoining Turkey, according to a monitoring network. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the bus was carrying opposition fighters when[…]
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