Police searched the home of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and four other locations for evidence of money laundering, his lawyer said early Thursday (local time), after a momentous day that saw longtime political prisoner Anwar Ibrahim walk free after receiving a royal pardon. Authorities confirmed the search, but did not immediately release any […]
Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist political organization and militant group, rejected Israeli medical and humanitarian aid sent through Kerem Shalom, a kibbutz in southern Israel located on the Gaza Strip-Israel-Egypt border on Wednesday. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) sent eight truckloads of medical equipment through the Kerem Shalom crossing into the coastal enclave to help treat […]
North Korea announced that it is not interested in talks which require only denuclearization, DPRK’s First Deputy Foreign Minister said. North Korea’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan also said that Pyongyang would go for negotiations with Trump only if he is interested in improving relations. The First Deputy Foreign Minister said that if Pyongyang […]
Three Chinese nationals were killed during weekend attacks by two ethnic armed groups in the border town and trading hub of Muse in one of the deadliest bouts of hostilities to hit Myanmar’s volatile northeastern Shan state in years, a local government official told RFA’s Myanmar service on Tuesday. Soldiers from the Ta’ang National Liberation […]
As many as 32 Indonesians have died in a surge of terrorist attacks and counter-terror operations during the last 48 hours, including the country’s first two suicide bombings perpetrated by entire families, which were claimed by the Islamic State. The incidents, most of them in East Java, left 13 victims and 19 suspected terrorists dead […]
At least 13 people died and more than 40 others were injured Sunday when a couple and their four children set off suicide bombs at three churches in Indonesia’s second largest city, Surabaya, in the worst terrorist attack in the country in two years, police and witnesses said. The couple and their two boys, aged […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A US delegation has flown to Israel amid rising tensions ahead of planned protests against the controversial move of the American embassy to Jerusalem (al-Quds) and rallies calling for the Palestinians’ right of return to the homes from which they were expelled from in 1948. Several US officials, joined by President Donald […]
The US decision to relocate embassy to Jerusalem has been harshly criticized by many Muslim countries, as well as states, supporting the so-called two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mass demonstrations took place on Friday in Turkey, Jordan, and Indonesia, condemning the relocation of the US embassy. In the Turkish capital of Istanbul, several thousand […]
