RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s top cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Sheikh has justified a ban on driving for females, saying women behind the wheels would be “exposed to evil”, reported The Independent. Although driving is not technically illegal for women in Saudi Arabia, ...
Read More »$10m spent on hotel, 500 luxury cars rented as Saudi King arrives in Turkey
Around ten million US Dollars have been spent on the hotel accommodation and around 500 luxury cards have been rented for the tour of the Saudi King to Turkey, it has been reported. The 80-year-old king Salman received a lavish ...
Read More »Tear gas, rubber bullets fired at migrants
REUTERS IDOMENI: Macedonian police throw stones at migrants and refugees during clashes near their makeshift camp here on Sunday.—AFP IDOMENI (Greece): Scores of migrants and refugees were wounded on Sunday when Macedonian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at ...
Read More »Secular activist murdered in Bangladesh
Bangladeshi students block the road and stage a protest following the murder of a law student, hacked to death by four assailants the night before, in Dhaka on April 7, 2016. —AFP DHAKA: A Bangladeshi law student who posted against ...
Read More »Afghanistan high on agenda as NATO Secretary General meets Obama
Afghanistan was high on agenda during NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s visit to United States where he met with the US President Barack Obama on Monday. “NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and US President Barack Obama discussed the Alliance’s response ...
Read More »Panama Papers probes opened, China limits access to news on leaks
REUTERS HONG KONG: Authorities across the globe have opened investigations into the activities of the world’s rich and powerful after a cache of leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm showed possible wrongdoing using offshore company structures. Leading figures and ...
Read More »Sound byte: ‘Leaks offer snapshot of a vast ecosystem of hidden money’
The Panama Papers have caused a global uproar by laying bare the murky world of off-shore companies operated by the world’s elite in the many tax havens around the globe. To get a better understanding of how over 100 organisations ...
Read More »More violence reported among Afghan and Syrian migrants in Greece
A distressing photo purportedly showing violence among the Afghan and Syrian refugees has emerged from Greece amid reports of persistent tensions among the refugees. The photograph was posted in a report published in local newspaper TO BHMA, a day after ...
Read More »China blocks India’s move to ban Jaish chief Masood Azhar at UN
NEW DELHI: After the attack on the IAF base at Pathankot on January 2, India in February wrote to the UN calling for immediate action to list Azhar under the Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee. China has again blocked India’s bid at ...
Read More »Several injured as hundreds of Afghan and Syrian refugees clash in Greece
Hundreds of Afghan and Syrian refugees entered into a violent clash in Greece amid ongoing refugee crisis in the Greek and Macedonian territories. According to the officials in Greece quoted by local media, several people were injured in the clash ...
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