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Thousands join global Belarus solidarity protests

30-05-2021 MINSK/ VILNIUS/ WARSAW: Thousands of people in Poland and Lithuania gathered for protests on Saturday to show support for the opposition in neighboring Belarus. They called for the release of a Belarusian dissident who was arrested along with his girlfriend when their flight was diverted to Minsk. The pair’s …

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UK´s Boris Johnson weds in ´secret ceremony´

30-05-2021 LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a “secret ceremony” on Saturday, UK media reports said. Known for his colorful love life, 56-year-old Johnson wed Symonds, 33, in Catholic Westminster Cathedral in front of close friends and family, the Mail on Sunday and ‘The …

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Austrian Muslims to sue government over ‘Islam map’

30-05-2021 VIENNA: A leading Muslim group in Austria has said it plans to file a lawsuit against the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz for unveiling a controversial “Islam map”, according to Austrian media reports. Muslim Youth Austria lambasted the government for publishing a “political Islam map”, which identifies the locations …

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Boko Haram frees 14 Shia students abducted in Nigeria

30-05-2021 ABUJA: Boko Haram has released the remaining 14 Shia students who had been held captive after being abducted last month from a northern Nigerian university, officials said. Armed groups of Boko Haram (an anti-Shia terrorist organization) have repeatedly attacked schools and universities in northwest Nigeria in the last few …

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We should unite against China: Ex-Australian PM

29-05-2021 Bureau Report + BBC CANBERRA/ BEIJING: Countries should unite against China’s growing economic and geopolitical coercion or risk being singled out and punished by Beijing, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told the BBC. Rudd said governments in the West should not be afraid to challenge China on …

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