SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Police killed four Kashmiris in the Jammu province of the Indian-occupied Kashmir region on Wednesday. Additional director general of police (Jammu), Mukesh Singh, told reporters that the police followed a truck moving in “an unusual manner” on a key highway in Jammu and followed it for a distance...
NEW YORK (AA) – The UN Security Council has urged the Taliban in Afghanistan to reverse policies and practices that further exclude women from public life. The 15-member Council on Tuesday expressed deep concern in a statement that the Taliban have suspended access to universities for women and girls. It denounced the suspension of schoo...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israel has placed more than 600 Palestinian minors under house arrest in East Jerusalem in 2022, according to a Palestinian agency on Tuesday. “Israel has widely used the policy of house arrest in Jerusalem this year,” the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said in a statement. “Israeli occupatio...
Lahore, Pakistan (AFP): Cyclists in Pakistan’s smog-smothered Lahore are enduring hazardous pollution levels in a campaign to get people to ditch their cars for cycles. Each week around 100 adults and children, some wearing masks or scarves wrapped around their mouths and noses, jump on their bikes to cycle around landmarks in the city o...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Miffed by vile Islamophobia from locals as well as apathy and inaction by local authorities, a human rights group in South Korea has appealed to the UN to help construct a mosque for the Muslim community. The appeal comes after local residents in the southeastern city of Daegu blocked the construction of […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli army forces detained 22 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. Most of the arrests took place in the town of Silwad, north of Ramallah, where 13 Palestinians were taken into custody. Israeli forces also raided the house of Qadura Fares, the head of [&hellip...
ISTANBUL (AA) – World football authority FIFA has chosen, for the first time, a female Palestinian referee to officiate at the upcoming Women’s World Cup matches. The official Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) reported that Heba Saadia would make the calls at the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand from Ju...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian aviation authorities on Monday ordered a Dubai-bound flight to land and forced off the family of a former footballer who has been supportive of protests in the country. Mahan Air Flight W563, which took off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport and was destined for Dubai, had among its passengers [...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s military intelligence does not consider Iran the number one threat to the country anymore, media reports said. Global challenges are the most important threats the country will face in 2023, according to the Hayom newspaper that said Iran is regarded as the second most serious threat. Iran is not the focal...
ANKARA (AA) – A Turkish soldier was killed in northern Iraq, near the Turkish border, authorities said on Monday. Huseyin Korkmaz was killed when “terrorists” opened harassing fire in the Operation Claw-Lock zone, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said in a statement. The ministry extended its condolences to Korkmaz’s fam...