Myanmar’s Rohingya suffered for years, need lasting solution: Turkey
6 September 2017 BAKU (Reuters) – Turkey’s foreign minister called on Wednesday for a lasting solution to the plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims who he said had been living for years in “open prisons”, ahead of his visit to neighbouring Bangladesh to discuss the crisis. President Tayyip Erdogan, who leads Turkey’s Islamist-rooted AK Party, has […]
US using N Korea to maintain military presence around China: Analyst
Wed Sep 6, 2017 The United States has used the North Korean nuclear program as a pretext to maintain its military presence around China, says a political analyst. Mike Billington, editor with the Executive Intelligence Review, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday when asked about new provocative remarks by US […]
Nearly 400 die as Myanmar army cracks down on Rohingya Muslims
DHAKA, Bangladesh – Thousands of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims are fleeing to Bangladesh following a campaign of arson and killings by the army in the Buddhist-majority nation. The recent deadliest violence in Myanmar’s northwest has so far claimed nearly 400 lives, with the army claiming it is conducting clearance operations against “extremist terrorists”. Around 38,000 Rohingya […]
World could run out of food in 10 years
1 Sep, 2017 The world could be facing a food shortage in just 10 years, according to an agricultural data technology company. Gro Intelligence founder and chief executive Sara Menker says previous calculations about food supply have focused on mass and weight, not nutritional value – and this is where things become problematic. Previously the […]
Millions of Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha 2017
As two million Muslims wrap up the Hajj pilgrimage, many remember those suffering in conflicts around the world. Millions of Muslims around the world are celebrating the Eid al-Adha holiday as some two million pilgrims carry out the final rites of the annual Hajj in Saudi Arabia. Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims on Friday made their […]
Benazir Bhutto assassination: Pervez Musharraf declared proclaimed offender
Islamabad:-Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was on August 31 declared a proclaimed offender by a special anti-terrorism court which sentenced two senior police officers to 17 years in jail in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, nearly 10 years after her assassination. Bhutto, a two-time Prime Minister, was killed in a gun and bomb attack […]
Peace and tranquility on the China border remains a distant dream
Commentators are at a loss to choose the right Shakespearean title to describe the end of the Doklam standoff. The tempting ones are ‘Measure for Measure’, ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’, ‘As You Like It’ and ‘Comedy of Errors’. But the most appropriate thing to say, particularly when the details of the deal are not known, is […]
Muslim countries need to do something about Myanmar’s Rohingya: Analyst
Muslim countries need to take action to stop the persecution of the Rohingya community in Myanmar, says the director of the Center for Muslims Affairs. We (the world Muslims) need to do all we can to put pressure on Muslim states to take some action to relieve the situation of the Rohingya Muslims; […]
Donald Trump on North Korea: ‘all options are on the table’
Donald Trump has said “all options are on the table” after North Korea launched a missile over Japan, and vowed the US and Tokyo were committed to increasing pressure on Pyongyang. The mid-range missile, which passed over Japan just after 6am local time, was one of the most provocative ever launches by North Korea and sent […]
Doklam standoff over: India, China agree to pull back troops
August 28, 2017 India and China have agreed to ‘expeditious disengagement’ of border personnel at Doklam, New Delhi said on Monday, a week before the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa summit in China that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to attend. In a major diplomatic breakthrough, the ministry of external affairs said […]
