20-11-2022 ISTANBUL/ DMASCUS/ BAGHDAD: Turkish military planes have hit targets in northern Syria and Iraq, bombing bases Turkey’s defence ministry claimed were used by those behind an explosion in central Istanbul last weekend that killed six people and wounded more than 80. The Turkish defence ministry announced the launch of …
Read More »Malaysia faces new political crisis
20-11-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia tumbled into fresh political turmoil Sunday after a tightly contested general election delivered a hung Parliament with no clear winner and a surprising surge of support for an Islamist party. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s reformist alliance secured the biggest gain with …
Read More »North Korea’s Kim vows more nuclear weapons
19-11-2022 PYONGYANG/ SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to counter US nuclear threats with nuclear weapons as he inspected a test of the country’s new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), state media KCNA said on Saturday. The isolated country tested the Hwasong-17 ICBM on Friday a day after warning …
Read More »Protesters set fire to home of Khomeini in Iran
19-11-2022 TEHRAN: Video clips showing a fire at the ancestral home in Iran of the Islamic Republic’s late founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, have appeared on social media, with activists saying it was torched by protesters. Media verified the location of two video clips using the distinctive arches and buildings that …
Read More »Hate in US & Europe triggers hatred everywhere
19-11-2022 NEW YORK: Islamophobia in the Western world, particularly the US and Europe, has affected the rest of the world as well, triggering anti-Muslim attitudes, including Asia Pacific region, experts told Andalou Agency. “It is legitimate today to talk about the globalization of Islamophobia,” AA quoted John Louis Esposito, a …
Read More »Authorities continue to clamp down on activists in Thailand
19-11-2022 BANGKOK: In August 2020, a youth-led protest movement began to sweep across Thailand, calling for constitutional reforms to rein in far-reaching powers of the country’s monarchy. Their demands inspired hundreds of thousands of people across Thailand, but, over two years later, the scale and intensity of protests have waned. …
Read More »Iran raps IAEA’s ‘Unconstructive’ Resolution
19-11-2022 TEHRAN: Iran’s envoy to the Vienna-based international organizations condemned the “unconstructive and political” resolution that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors has passed against Tehran. The draft resolution, ratified on Thursday, has criticized Iran for what it called a lack of cooperation with the agency. It …
Read More »How does FIFA make money from football?
19-11-2022 ZURICH: Business is rarely this simple. If you manufacture a product which everybody wants to buy, but which costs you almost nothing to make, you are going to accrue a lot of money rather quickly. In a nutshell, this is how FIFA, football’s world governing body, makes money. In …
Read More »Caution for hundreds of Boko Haram survivors
19-11-2022 NGARANNAM- NIGERI: Saleh Abba’s new home, a well-ventilated two-bedroom flat that he shares with his wife and three children in Ngarannam, a small, humid town in the northeast Nigerian state of Borno, is a source of joy for the Boko Haram survivor. The 29-year-old grain grinder’s favourite spot is …
Read More »Blackouts hit 10 million in Ukraine after Russian strikes
19-11-2022 KYIV: More than 10 million Ukrainians are without electricity after dozens of Russian air attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure as winter sets in and temperatures plummet, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Repeated barrages disrupted electricity and water supplies across Ukraine, but Russia blamed the civilian suffering on Ukraine’s …
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