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Turkiye condemns ‘heinous’ terrorist attacks in Somalia

Turkiye, on Friday, strongly condemned "heinous" terrorist attacks targeting military bases in Somalia's central Galgaduud region, Anadolu News Agency reports. "We are deeply saddened to learn that many soldiers lost their lives and were injured in the terrorist attack that took place today against the military bases in the Galgaduud region of Somalia," said a Turkish Foreign Ministry statement. Some of the wounded are under treatment at the Recep Tayyip Erdogan Training […]

today21 January 2023

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Muslims removed from US ‘no-fly list’ after filing lawsuits

INTERNATIONAL Muslims who challenged the constitutionality of the "no-fly list" were removed from it after they sued the government, prompting concerns that the programme wants to evade legal scrutiny. “The government removes people from their secret lists only when they fear that a court might impose restraint on their lawlessness,” Gadeir Abbas, an attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair), told the Washington Post. US Supreme Court rules Muslims placed […]

today18 October 2022

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New Zealand mosque shooter sentenced to life without parole

A court in New Zealand has sentenced a self-confessed white supremacist who killed 51 Muslims as they prayed at two mosques in Christchurch to life imprisonment without parole, the first time such a sentence has been handed down in the country. Brenton Tarrant, a 29-year-old Australian, pleaded guilty earlier this year to 51 charges of murder, 40 counts of attempted murder and one charge of committing a terrorist act during […]

today27 August 2020

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Hamas rejects designation of Hezbollah as ‘terrorist’

Hamas on Monday rejected a resolution by Arab League foreign ministers designating Lebanon’s Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. “Hamas strongly rejects the designation of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah as terrorist,” it said in a statement. “We were shocked to see that the joint Arab statement was free from referring and designating the Israeli occupation and its crimes as terror acts,” it said. During the emergency meeting Sunday, it was […]

today21 November 2017

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Teacher allegedly calls pupil a ‘terrorist’

The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation on Friday condemned a Lenasia schoolteacher who allegedly called a Muslim pupil a “terrorist”. “If the allegations against the teacher are found to be true, it raises serious concerns about ongoing incidents of racism in SA schools,” the foundation’s director, Neeshan Balton, said in a statement. “It is extremely worrying that Islamophobia may have found its way into a classroom.” A teacher at the Apex Primary […]

today19 November 2016

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