Pop sensation Rihanna supports the farmers, who are protesting in India, on Tuesday using her Twitter handle followed by millions. She took to Twitter and questioned the internet ban imposed in Haryana and parts of Delhi by the BJP government during the ongoing Farmer’s protest in the outskirts of Dehli against the center’s agricultural law. […]
Iran is ready for a new nuclear agreement with the US — but the clock is ticking, according to Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday, Zarif said the Biden administration has a “limited window of opportunity” to re-enter the 2015 nuclear agreement. “The time for the […]
Facebook suspends Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chatbot linked account and deleted his post for violating the company’s privacy policy. Visitors to the Prime Minister’s Facebook page, who clicked on a link about the coronavirus, received an automatic message, purporting to come from Netanyahu. “If you have friends or family members aged 60 or over who have […]
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday banned expatriates from traveling to the Kingdom from 20 countries to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Exceptions to the ban, which begins at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, are diplomats, and medical staff, and their families. Travel will be banned from the UAE, Egypt, Lebanon, and Turkey, as well as the […]
Two FBI agents were killed and three others were wounded while serving a warrant early Tuesday in Florida, officials said. The agents, who were not immediately identified, were shot at a residential complex in Sunrise at about 6 a.m. while executing a court-ordered search warrant in a case involving violent crimes against children, FBI officials […]
The United Arab Emirates announced that Emirati nationality will now be officially attainable for foreigners, in a major first for the Gulf state. The move is a significant change in direction for a country whose economy relies heavily on expatriates, For whom residency is typically contingent on their employment visas. The UAE passport will be […]
Twitter has restored dozens of Indian accounts that were earlier blocked in response to legal notice by the government, citing objections based on public order. The accounts were all linked to continuing farmers’ protests against a series of agricultural reform laws. They included farmers’ leaders, activists, and a news magazine. The protests are now in […]
US President Joe Biden on Monday threatened to reimpose sanctions on Myanmar following a coup by the country’s military leaders and called for a concerted international response to push them into relinquishing power. Biden condemned the military’s takeover from the civilian-led government on Monday and its detention of the country’s elected leader Aung San Suu […]
Myanmar’s military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi; who was detained along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in early morning raids. The army said it had carried out the detentions in response to “election fraud”; handing […]
WASHINGTON: A Covid-19 vaccine is not only permissible in Islam, but also obligatory as it has the potential to stop the spread of an extremely dangerous disease, says an edict issued by the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AJMA). On Saturday, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) arranged a seminar. Scholars and physicians […]
