DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Two more Rohingya men were shot dead inside a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, early Thursday just a day after a Rohingya activist was gunned down in the camp. A group of armed and masked men barged into refugee camp-17 and opened fire at Rohingya men, killing one of them […]
Community leaders say Fargo, North Dakota’s Islamic Cemetery has been the target of a vandalism spree. Last Friday, an employee at the cemetery entered the building housing concrete vaults used in burials. Heidi Soliman, a spokesperson with the Islamic Society of The Islamic Society of Fargo, said the employee found all the vaults had been [&h...
Former Trump aide Steve Bannon was sentenced on Friday to four months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $6,500 fine for contempt of Congress. The charges stemmed from Bannon’s defiance of a subpoena issued by the Jan. 6 House committee. The U.S. Department of Justice had recommended Bannon be sentenced to six months […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The Sudanese authorities on Friday declared a state of emergency in the state of Blue Nile in the wake of killings of more than 200 people as a result of a tribal conflict. Ahmed Al-Omda, the state’s governor, said that the emergency will remain in effect throughout the Blue Nile region […]
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The co-founder of the Quebec City mosque where six worshippers were killed in a deadly shooting spree in 2017 urged Canadian lawmakers Thursday to toughen and pass a proposed gun bill. Boufeldja Benabdallah said Bill C-21 should include a ban on assault-style semi-automatic weapons “that are not reasonably us...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – At least 150 people have been killed over the past two days in a tribal conflict in southeastern Sudan, according to local media reports. Dozens of others were injured in the clashes which took place between tribes on Wednesday and Thursday in Blue Nile state. “The UN is alarmed by violence […]
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Gunmen have abducted at least 20 people and killed two in an attack on a hospital in Nigeria. Bandits attacked the Abdulsalam Abubakar General Hospital in Gulu, a town in Nigeria’s Niger state, in the early hours of Tuesday. Among those abducted were a doctor, nurses and other staff members, as […]
TEHRAN (AA) – Four more prisoners injured in clashes and a fire at Tehran’s high-security Evin Prison have died, bringing the death toll to eight, according to the country’s judiciary. The Iranian judiciary’s media center said the four inmates died at a hospital due to the “severity of their condition,” whil...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Five people were killed and nine others injured in tribal fighting in Sudan, according to the military on Sunday. A military statement said clashes erupted between the Arab Misseriya tribe and the ethnic Nuba tribe in the town of Lagawa in West Kordofan state. Several homes were set ablaze in the […]
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisian mourners clashed with security forces after the death of a young man from injuries sustained during a police chase a month ago. Protesters threw rocks at security forces after Malek Sellimi’s funeral in the working-class neighbourhood of Upper Omran on the edges of Tunis, according to videos shared widely o...
