DUBLIN, Ireland (MNTV) — American rapper Macklemore has launched his Free Palestine tour in Dublin after being dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour following public remarks supporting Palestinians and criticizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. According to BBC News, Macklemore performed at Dublin’s 3Arena before an audience of up to 13...
CAIRO, Egypt (MNTV) — Egypt’s House of Representatives on Monday authorized President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to take necessary measures to support Saudi Arabia and defend its territory, sovereignty and Islamic holy sites against external aggression. According to Arab News, lawmakers approved the authorization by a two-thirds majority follo...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (MNTV) — Israeli forces carried out fresh airstrikes, artillery attacks and demolitions across southern Lebanon on Monday, in another reported violation of the ceasefire agreement intended to end hostilities between the two countries. According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, an Israeli drone dropped two bombs on a hou...
AMMAN, Jordan (MNTV) — Jordan launched airstrikes in southern Syria following a deadly shooting at a church in Jordan, targeting suspected armed groups that authorities said were connected to the attack. According to Asharq Al-Awsat, the strikes hit locations in Syria’s Deraa and Suwayda provinces, killing at least seven people, includin...
By MNTV Staff Writer A new report by an international association of lawyers describes India’s rule over Jammu and Kashmir as having shifted from prolonged military occupation into a “structural settler-colonial project,” documenting mass detention, the demolition of homes and the engineering of the territory’s demograp...
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (MNTV) – Iran and Tajikistan have proposed establishing a union of Persian-speaking countries and regions, creating a joint committee on Persian language and culture, and expanding cooperation in energy, technology and trade, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported. The proposals were discussed recently during a meeting i...
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (MNTV) – Uzbekistan’s central bank has issued its first license for Islamic banking operations, to Open Bank, marking a new stage in the development of Islamic finance in the country, the Fergana news agency reported. The regulator’s board approved the decision on Oct. 23. The license allows Open Bank to conduc...
PATTANI, Thailand (MNTV) – The suffering of Palestinians in Gaza has resonated far beyond the Middle East, inspiring artists in Thailand’s Deep South to turn their work into expressions of solidarity. In Pattani, a Malay Muslim-majority region in southern Thailand bordering Malaysia, artists are drawing connections between their own stru...
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (MNTV) – A new book on the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks questions whether authorities investigated warning signs before the massacre that killed 51 Muslim worshippers at Masjid al-Noor and the Linwood Islamic Centre. In “He Told Us,” authors Chris Wilson and Michal Dziwulski challenge New Zealand’...
LONDON (MNTV) — Pakistani-origin pediatric cardiac surgeon Asif Hasan has received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 Pride of Britain Awards in recognition of his three-decade career treating children with serious heart conditions. The awards, a nationally televised British event, recognize people for exceptional achievements and acts...
