JERUSALEM – Israeli police attacked Muslim worshippers late on Friday inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City. Some 53 Palestinians were injured in the clashes inside the Haram al-Sharif area, the Palestinian Red Crescent said in a statement. Israeli police attempted to disperse worshippers inside the Haram al-Sharif via stun grenade and […]
TEHRAN – Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday called Israel “not a country, but a terrorist base” during a speech on Al-Quds Day, an annual show of solidarity with the Palestinians. Thousands massed for rallies across several Muslim-majority countries including Iraq, Yemen and Pakistan for the day, seen in Israel as an expression […]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday left for Saudi Arabia for a three-day visit to discuss bilateral relations between the countries. According to Dawn, it is expected that Khan’s visit will serve to improve “strained” relations between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia that were shaken in the recent past due to several reasons. […]
KABUL – A day after the Taliban issued a threat against the media persons, a high-profile television journalist was shot dead in Afghanistan’s Kandahar city on Thursday. Nemat Rawan, a former anchor of the country’s leading broadcaster and a media official at the Ministry of Finance, was killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen in […]
ISLAMABAD – Drawing a comparison between the Indian and Pakistan embassies abroad, Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked the country’s ambassadors serving abroad to abandon colonial-era attitudes and treat their diaspora with compassion. Khan on Wednesday rebuked his diplomats while addressing his envoys posted around the world virtually, for their failure to serve overseas Pakistanis […]
MAKKAH – The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques has documented Hajar Al-Aswad or the Black Stone at Kaaba with a Focus Stack Panorama in 49,000 megapixel image. The presidency said in a statement on its Twitter account that specially processed high-resolution images have been captured of the Black Stone, the […]
NEW DELHI – A shipment of 282 oxygen cylinders, 60 oxygen concentrators, ventilators and other medical supplies from Kuwaiti reached India on Tuesday to help the country fight the second wave of coronavirus. Arindam Bagchi, official spokesperson, the Ministry of External Affairs expressed gratitude to Kuwait for this gesture and said it would deepen fraternal […]
BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday offered help to India in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Chinese state media reported. According to China’s state media agency Xinhua, President Xi Jinping also “extended condolences” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Covid-19 pandemic in India. “President Xi Jinping sent a message of condolences […]
JERUSALEM – A stampede broke out early Friday at a Jewish religious festival attended by tens of thousands of people in northern Israel, killing nearly 40 people and leaving some 150 hospitalized, medical officials said. The stampede, one of the deadliest civilian disasters in Israeli history, occurred during the celebrations of Lag BaOmer at Mount […]
DUBAI – Saudi Arabia shipped 80 metric tons of liquid oxygen to India as the country is perilously running low on supplies due to a recent surge in coronavirus cases. The urgent supply shipment is being undertaken in coordination with India’s Adani group and Linde company. India’s number of coronavirus cases surged by 349,691 in […]