A 5-year-old Muslim kindergarten student was allegedly assaulted by a woman teacher who grabbed him by the neck and began choking him, the latest in a series of hate incidents reported in the US following Donald Trump’s win. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the country’s largest

Jerusalem: A massive fire has been spreading in the northern Israel since Tuesday. Fire has been spread across the central and northern regions of Israel and parts of the West Bank. Dry conditions and high winds have made the situation worse. According to latest figures, there were 30 reports of

Mosul [Iraq]: Iraqi security forces have recaptured six villages in southeast and north of the city of Mosul, while Special Forces continued heavy clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants in the eastern part of the city. On Monday, the army’s 9th armored Division managed to free the three vi

Manama: Police in the Saudi capital Riyadh have arrested an Indian man who posted a picture of a Hindu deity sitting on the Ka’aba, the cuboid building at the centre of Islam’s most sacred mosque. Police arrested the Indian national in his 40s, who works as an agriculture engineer. “Not only d

London, Nov 20 (PTI) Thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for Queen Elizabeth II to pay nearly 370 million pounds for repairs to Buckingham Palace from her own pocket instead of resorting to taxpayer funds. The "Make Royals Pay for Palace Renovation" was created on 38 Degree

Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today he backed a bill limiting the volume of calls to prayer from mosques, a proposal government watchdogs have called a threat to religious freedom. Netanyahu, who spoke as a ministerial committee was to discuss the draft bill later in t

San Francisco:A veteran history teacher in the US has been suspended for comparing President-elect Donald Trump to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler during a post-election lesson. Frank Navarro, 65, a history and special education teacher at Mountain View High School, Bay Area, California, was asked to

LONDON At least seven people were killed and more than 50 injured when a tram overturned on Wednesday morning in south London, police said and later confirmed the driver had been arrested.Early indications were that the tram was travelling too fast on a sharp bend, investigators said.Emergency servi

Rather than bask in a post-Olympics glow, residents of Rio de Janeiro are having to relearn the run and crouch position as gun fights become an increasing feature again of life in Brazil’s second city. The massive security presence that kept athletes and tourists safe during the Games in August has

Islamic State’s alleged ‘No 1’ man in Germany described as ‘the worst’ by returnee jihadist  German police have arrested five men in anti-terror raids, including an influential preacher dubbed “Islamic State’s number one man in Germany”. The five men are all suspected of supporting Islamic Sta

Dhaka: The idol of Hindu Goddess Lakshmi, stolen from a vandalised temple, was found in a mosque in Bangladesh's Nasirnagar, six days after communal violence rocked Brahmanbaria district, even as a Muslim youth was caught torching a Kali temple in another area on Saturday, media reports said. Polic

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES:  The US military confirmed Friday it had killed Al-Qaeda's emir for northeastern Afghanistan during an air strike last month, in a major blow to the group as it seeks to re-establish safe havens in the country.  Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook described the assault that kill

Dubai: Maryam Rajavi, President of People’s Mujahedin of Iran, strongly condemned the targeting of Saudi’s holy city, Makkah with missile fired from Yemen on 29th October. She said that the strikes was carried out under the supervision of Quds Force and was said to have been ordered by Iranian Su

Paris: One journalist is killed every four-and-a-half days, according to a shocking report released by Unesco on Wednesday. During the last decade, 827 journalists have been killed while on the job, the Unesco director-general's report said. The worst hit areas were Arab states including Syria, Ir

PESHAWAR, Pakistan A Pakistani court on Wednesday denied bail to Sharbat Gula, who was arrested for illegally living in Pakistan and is best known as the green-eyed Afghan girl who posed for a National Geographic magazine photograph 30 years ago.Gula, now in her 40s, became a symbol of her country's

HERAT, Afghanistan Gunmen rounded up and shot dozens of civilians in a remote part of Afghanistan on Tuesday, UN officials said, in an attack that prompted angry protests from residents about government failure to protect them. The provincial governor's spokesman blamed fighters from Islamic State f

Addressing the party's National Council, she said, "Awami League must come back to power to take the nation forward towards its goal of becoming a poverty-free nation." Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was on Sunday re-elected unopposed as the ruling Awami League’s president, asked

TOKYO: Two apparent explosions hit the Japanese city of Utsunomiya back-to-back on Sunday, killing one person and injuring three others in what police are viewing as a possible suicide. Japanese media reports suggest that the victim, believed to be a 72-year-old former military officer, may have