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ISLAMABAD (MNTV) — A day after Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan signed a mutual-defense pact treating an attack on any one of them as an attack on all, governments and analysts worldwide were still measuring what it means — with reactions splitting along the region’s existing fault lines. The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, signed Fri...
WASHINGTON (MNTV) — The United States on Friday imposed new sanctions on companies, currency-exchange houses, and financial operators it accused of helping Iran secretly move hundreds of millions of dollars through the international financial system. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, which administers US sanctio...
ANKARA (MNTV) — Eight countries led by Türkiye have condemned Israeli strikes on hospitals, medical infrastructure, and civilian areas in Gaza, warning that the attacks violate international law and threaten efforts toward a lasting ceasefire. In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of Türkiye, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Sa...
SAMARA, Russia (MNTV) — The Bashkirs, one of the indigenous peoples of Russia’s Samara region, are working to preserve their language, traditions and cultural identity, and showing growing interest in Islam amid growing use of Russian in urban areas, according to Argumenty i Fakty, cited by IslamNews. About 5,000 Bashkirs live in the Samara re...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (MNTV) — Azerbaijan’s model of multiculturalism, which promotes equal rights regardless of religion, ethnicity or language, was highlighted at an international conference in Cairo on combating Islamophobia, AzerNEWS reported. Speaking at the Second International Conference on “Muslim Communities in the West and The...
SERANG, Indonesia (MNTV) — Global issuance of sukuk — Islamic investment bonds structured to comply with the religion’s ban on interest — is projected to rise from about $6 trillion in 2024 to $9 trillion by 2029, with Malaysia and Indonesia driving the growth. Southeast Asia accounts for around 51 percent of total global sukuk […...
MNTV (MNTV) — One month after China’s Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress took effect, rights advocates say it is already being used against Uyghurs and other minorities — the opposite of the cohesion Beijing says it will foster, according to an analysis in The Diplomat. The law embeds what advocates describe as a […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (MNTV) — Malaysia has been named one of the world’s four leading net exporters of AI hardware, alongside South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, in the International Monetary Fund’s July World Economic Outlook update. Malaysia accounts for roughly 13 percent of global semiconductor “back-end” manufactu...
MAKKAH, Saudi Arabia (MNTV) — Saudi Arabia has pursued a wide range of defense, security and political agreements over the past several decades, reflecting its evolving role in regional security and cooperation across the Muslim world. While many earlier agreements focused on mediation and political reconciliation, Saudi Arabia’s more recent d...
NEW YORK (MNTV) — The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY), a Muslim civil rights group, has condemned the reported vandalism of a Catholic church in the borough of Queens, where a statue of the Virgin Mary was destroyed in what authorities are investigating as a possible hate crime. CAIR-NY called […]...
