New Delhi [India], October 18 (ANI): Condemning the terrorist attack on civilians in Jammu and Kashmir, Congress leader Rajeev Shukla said that strict action should be taken against terror organisations. Shukla, who is also the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Vice President, said, “We strongly condemn killings (in JK). Strict action should […]
BEIJING, China: An app used by Muslims throughout the world, Quran Majeed, has been removed by Apple at the request of the Chinese government. The BBC reports that the app was removed after China accused Quran Majeed of posting illegal religious texts. The elimination of the app was reported by Apple Censorship – a website […]
MOSCOW, Russia: Demographer Alexei Raksha reports that Russia has experienced its most severe population decline over the past 12 months in its history. The country’s natural population, calculated from registered deaths and births but excluding migration, declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021, added Raksha, who left state agency Rosstat last year after […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh – Bangladesh intends to transfer more than 80,000 Rohingya refugees to a distant island in the Bay of Bengal after making a deal with the United Nations to provide help, officials said Friday. The Bangladesh government has relocated nearly 19,000 Muslim refugees, members of a persecuted chiefly Muslim minority from Myanmar, from over-crowded […]
© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) — A bowl of rice might not sound like a heavy burden, but for the leader of the world’s most populous country, a man who has known real hunger, it is a great weight to carry. In 1969, Chinese President Xi Jinping, a teenager at the time, […]
On October 8, a terrible blast struck the worshippers attending Friday noon prayers at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in the Khan Abad district of Bandar, the capital of Kunduz, one of Afghanistan’s largest cities in its northern belt. This is a mosque frequented by Shia Muslims, who were referred to as “our compatriots” by Taliban […]
ATHENS, Greece: The Greek island of Crete has been hit by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake, just weeks after another quake caused one death and damaged hundreds of buildings. According to the Geodynamic Institute in Athens, the undersea earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 and occurred at 12:24 p.m. local time off the island’s eastern coast. […]
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar – According to locals and sources within the armed resistance movement, the Myanmar military deployed thousands of troops to upper Myanmar recently that looks like preparing for a concerted push to crush an anti-coup uprising that inflicted heavy casualties on the junta army. The sources said that a heavy build-up of military forces […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations warned the Zionist regime against any miscalculation and military threats to the Islamic Republic. – Politics news – In a letter submitter to the president of the UN Security Council on Wednesday, Majid Takht Ravanchi warned that the frequency and severity of the Zionist regime’s provocative […]
© Provided by Xinhua At a time when the extinction of plants and animals is accelerating at an alarming rate, the “City of Eternal Spring” itself stands as a strong reminder that the world community should be more united, ambitious and effective in saving the Earth’s ecosystems from further destruction. BEIJING, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) — […]
