Azerbaijan celebrates Wind Tuesday on March 12, 2024Today in Azerbaijan, the third pre-holiday Tuesday is being celebrated on the eve of the Novruz holiday, known as Yel Chershenbesi (Wind Tuesday). This day celebrates the arrival of the first calendar month of spring, with only a few days left before the Novruz spring feast Wind Tuesday holds importance as a symbol of the […]
India to enact divisive citizenship law By: Agencies on March 12, 2024India’s interior ministry said Monday it was enacting a citizenship law that critics say discriminates against Muslims, just weeks before the world’s most populous country heads into a general election. While the law was passed in December 2019, its implementation was delayed after widespread protests and deadly violence erupted in which more than 100 people […]
Crescent moon spotted in Saudi Arabia marking start of Ramazan By: AP on March 11, 2024Officials saw the crescent moon on Sunday night in Saudi Arabia, home to the holiest sites in Islam, marking the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan for many of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims. The sacred month, which sees those observing abstain from food and water from sunrise to sunset, marks a period […]
UN chief, in Ramazan message, voices solidarity with besieged Gazans suffering ‘horrors’ By: APP on March 11, 2024United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Sunday released a video message marking the beginning of the holy month of Ramazan in which he expressed “solidarity and support” to the people of Gaza who are undergoing extreme suffering under relentless Israeli bombardments for the past five months. “I wish to express a special message of solidarity […]
Nikki Haley suspends White House bid, clearing path for a Trump-Biden rematch By: Agencies on March 7, 2024Nikki Haley ended her long-shot challenge to Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Wednesday, ensuring the former president will be the party’s candidate in a rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden in November’s election. Haley, the former South Carolina governor and Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations when he was president, made the announcement in […]
China, Iran felicitate Shehbaz on becoming PM By: Agencies on March 4, 2024Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang have congratulated Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on his election as Prime Minister of Pakistan. President Xi Jinping in his message expressed the confidence that under the leadership of Shehbaz Sharif Pakistan would be able to make new and greater achievements in the cause of national development and progress. […]
Iran counts ballots in vote seen favouring conservatives By: AFP on March 3, 2024Iranian women fill out their ballots in the election for which local Fars news agency estimated turnout at ‘more than 40 percent’ Iran began counting ballots on Saturday after a vote for parliament and a key clerical body, with local media estimating a low turnout and conservatives expected to dominate. Friday’s elections were the first […]
US military begins air-dropping aid to Gaza By: AFP on March 3, 2024American cargo planes air-dropped 38,000 meals into the besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday, part of a series of drops planned by Washington to help curb a growing humanitarian crisis in the war-racked territory. The United Nations has warned of famine in Gaza, and more than 100 people were left dead earlier this week in a […]
Israel killed 25,000 Palestinian women, children since October: Pentagon By: APP on March 1, 2024Israel has killed more than 25,000 Palestinian women and children since the October 7, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday. “It’s over 25,000,” Austin told lawmakers when asked during a House Armed Services Committee hearing for the figure on women and children killed. The United States has backed Israel since the war broke in […]
US soldier dies after self-immolation, protesting Israeli raids on Gaza By: xinhua on February 28, 2024A U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy here “in an apparent protest” against the Israeli raids on Gaza died in a hospital late Sunday. The airman was identified by police as 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell from San Antonio, Texas, and confirmed on active duty by an Air Force spokesperson […]