20-11-2022 DOHA: FIFA President Gianni Infantino accused Western countries of “hypocrisy” saying they were not in a position to give “moral lessons” to other nations, hours before the World Cup kicks off in Qatar. In a fiery news conference in the Qatari capital on the eve of the tournament, the …
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20-11-2022 ISTANBUL/ DMASCUS/ BAGHDAD: Turkish military planes have hit targets in northern Syria and Iraq, bombing bases Turkey’s defence ministry claimed were used by those behind an explosion in central Istanbul last weekend that killed six people and wounded more than 80. The Turkish defence ministry announced the launch of …
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20-11-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia tumbled into fresh political turmoil Sunday after a tightly contested general election delivered a hung Parliament with no clear winner and a surprising surge of support for an Islamist party. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s reformist alliance secured the biggest gain with …
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19-11-2022 PYONGYANG/ SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to counter US nuclear threats with nuclear weapons as he inspected a test of the country’s new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), state media KCNA said on Saturday. The isolated country tested the Hwasong-17 ICBM on Friday a day after warning …
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19-11-2022 TEHRAN: Video clips showing a fire at the ancestral home in Iran of the Islamic Republic’s late founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, have appeared on social media, with activists saying it was torched by protesters. Media verified the location of two video clips using the distinctive arches and buildings that …
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19-11-2022 NEW YORK: Islamophobia in the Western world, particularly the US and Europe, has affected the rest of the world as well, triggering anti-Muslim attitudes, including Asia Pacific region, experts told Andalou Agency. “It is legitimate today to talk about the globalization of Islamophobia,” AA quoted John Louis Esposito, a …
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19-11-2022 BANGKOK: In August 2020, a youth-led protest movement began to sweep across Thailand, calling for constitutional reforms to rein in far-reaching powers of the country’s monarchy. Their demands inspired hundreds of thousands of people across Thailand, but, over two years later, the scale and intensity of protests have waned. …
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19-11-2022 TEHRAN: Iran’s envoy to the Vienna-based international organizations condemned the “unconstructive and political” resolution that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors has passed against Tehran. The draft resolution, ratified on Thursday, has criticized Iran for what it called a lack of cooperation with the agency. It …
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19-11-2022 ZURICH: Business is rarely this simple. If you manufacture a product which everybody wants to buy, but which costs you almost nothing to make, you are going to accrue a lot of money rather quickly. In a nutshell, this is how FIFA, football’s world governing body, makes money. In …
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19-11-2022 NGARANNAM- NIGERI: Saleh Abba’s new home, a well-ventilated two-bedroom flat that he shares with his wife and three children in Ngarannam, a small, humid town in the northeast Nigerian state of Borno, is a source of joy for the Boko Haram survivor. The 29-year-old grain grinder’s favourite spot is …
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