COTABATO CITY, Philippines (MNTV) — About 2.4 million voters in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao — the Muslim-majority self-governing region in the southern Philippines — will elect an 80-seat regional parliament on Sept. 14, in the region’s first such vote, The Inquirer reported. The election ends a seven-year transit...
KUALA NERUS, Malaysia (MNTV) — About 167,000 international students in Malaysia contribute around $4.95 billion a year to the economy through tuition and living expenses, the head of Education Malaysia Global Services (EMGS) said, as quoted by the New Straits Times. EMGS chief executive Novie Tajuddin said each international student spends an ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (MNTV) — Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour, whose paintings became internationally recognized representations of Palestinian identity and resistance, has died at the age of 79, Al Jazeera reported. Mansour’s family announced his death on Monday after earlier saying that he was in critical condition. No cause of death was im...
PARIS, France (MNTV) — Saudi Arabia and France have expanded their strategic partnership through a series of agreements covering defense, artificial intelligence, investment, infrastructure, energy, tourism and culture, as both countries seek to deepen economic ties and broaden cooperation across emerging industries. The agreements were announ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian security forces used dangerous and unlawful weapons against student-led protesters in New Delhi and Bihar, including firing metal pellets into crowds and an assault rifle toward demonstrators, Amnesty International said in an investigation accusing authorities of using excessive force to suppress dissent. Amnes...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Bengali-speaking Muslims were disproportionately rounded up, detained and forced to prove their Indian citizenship during an immigration crackdown in southern India, according to a new fact-finding report that accuses police of turning a drive against undocumented foreigners into identity-based profiling. The report, ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim seminary student was allegedly subjected to a violent religiously targeted assault aboard a moving train in northern India, with a group of men grabbing his beard, abusing his Muslim identity and attempting to force alcohol into his mouth before trying to throw him from the carriage. Mohammad Muntazir, [&hell...
TUNIS, Tunisia (MNTV) – Tunisian authorities said Sunday that the bodies of 11 irregular migrants had been recovered after their boat sank off the coast of the town of Ben Gardane in the country’s southeast. Houssem Eddine Jebabli, a spokesperson for the National Guard Directorate-General, told the state news agency TAP that search and r...
HAMBURG (MNTV) — Germany is confronting an uncomfortable truth about the far-right violence threatening its Muslim and migrant communities: increasingly, it is being carried out by children. That reality was underscored this month when a Hamburg court jailed eight members of a far-right terrorist group — some as young as 14 when they joined — ...
LONDON (MNTV) — In a country where British Muslim sporting success tends to be measured in cricket and football, a 14-year-old from Chelmsford is quietly rewriting expectations in a sport few would associate with his community: volleyball. Ayaan Syed was named the recipient of the Imams Hasan and Husayn Excellence in Children’s Award at ...
