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Saudi Arabia has officially started the Umrah season by issuing permits for citizens and residents of the Kingdom and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj and Umrah said Saudi citizens and residents as well as visitors from the GCC countries can now obtain permits through the…

Expressing support for Russia’s war efforts, North Korea on Tuesday slammed the United States’ (US) decision to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions. In a statement, Pyongyang Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said, “The US has made a very dangerous choice by deciding to offer such lethal weapons to Ukraine.” The…

The UN Human Rights Council will debate a contentious draft proposal on religious hatred in Geneva tomorrow in the wake of burning of Holy Quran in Sweden. In a draft resolution presented by Pakistan on behalf of the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the group described the burning of the…

A two days NATO summit begins in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius tomorrow. In the summit Western allies will discuss helping Ukraine. Meanwhile, United States President Joe Biden has kicked off a three-nation trip aimed at showing solidarity with Ukraine. Joe Biden arrived in London in the first leg of his…

In yet another migrant boat disaster, at least one person died and another ten went missing after a boat crossing the Mediterranean to Italy sank off Tunisia, according to a judicial official said Sunday. Tunisia’s coastguard rescued 11 people from the boat, which set off from the coast off the…

Sweden’s Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer said the government was examining whether it could ban the desecration of the Holy Quran or books belonging to other faiths illegal after the recent Holy Quran burnings “damaged” the country’s security. A person, who migrated from Iraq to Sweden, burned pages of the Holy…

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has condemned the Israeli military’s excessive use of force in its largest operation in 20 years against the Jenin refugee camp in occupied West Bank. Talking to media, Guterres asked Israel to abide by its obligations under international law and ensure protection of the civilian…

At the United Nations, the Palestinian mission has called on the world to act promptly to stop Israeli aggression against innocent civilians in flagrant breach of international law. In a statement, the mission asked the UN to see that Israel’s terrorism and aggression against Palestinians are escalating and becoming ever…

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has accorded approval to fourteen important decisions and documents on the occasion of 23rd meeting of the SCO’s Council of Heads of State today.  These include the New Delhi Declaration, which articulated the collective stance of the SCO-Member States on strategic and geopolitical issues of common…

Saudi Arabia has summoned Sweden’s ambassador to denounce the Quran-burning incident outside a Stockholm mosque that sparked a diplomatic backlash across the Muslim world, state media reported early Monday. The kingdom — home to the holiest sites in Islam, in Makkah and Madina— had already condemned Wednesday’s incident in which…

Pope Francis has condemned the burning of the Holy Quran in Sweden, saying that the vile act had “angered and disgusted” him and he refused to acknowledge the act as a form of freedom of speech. The comments came in response to the latest incident of Quran’s desecration in Sweden…

In Palestine, death toll from Israeli attack on Jenin in the West Bank has risen to eight with 50 injured. The Palestinian health ministry said dozens of Palestinians were also arrested during the overnight raids. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, Israeli forces launched missile strikes against a Palestinian…

Sheikh Dr Yousaf bin Muhammad bin Saeed, imam of Hajj, who is also a member of the Council of Senior Scholars delivered the Hajj Sermon at Masjid-e-Nimra. Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the world converged in Maidan-e-Arafat on Tuesday to perform the Rukn-e-Azam of Hajj “Waqoof-e-Arafat” which…

Turkiye has condemned Israel’s approval of the construction of approximately 5,700 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank. Turkish Foreign Ministry in a statement said the illegal settlements seriously damage the ground for the two-state solution and the perspective of lasting peace. Turkiye also called on Israel to immediately…

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner paramilitary group, has agreed to leave Russia for Belarus, the Kremlin said Saturday, in a deal apparently brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that ends an armed insurrection, which marked the gravest threat to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authority in decades. In a conference call with…

In Afghanistan, the supreme leader of Interim government Hibatullah Akhundzada has claimed that his government has taken necessary steps for the betterment of women. In a message released today he said under the rule of the Islamic Emirate, concrete measures have been taken to save women from many traditional oppressions,…

Russian military helicopters Saturday afternoon engaged in a firefight with a rebel convoy comprising mercenaries who had made significant progress towards Moscow after capturing a southern city overnight, Reuters reported. President Vladimir Putin declared his determination to suppress this armed uprising, drawing a parallel to Russia’s Civil War that took…

New Global Financial Pact Summit seeking to overhaul the international financial system and proposing steps towards easing the debt burden of developing nations concluded at Paris today. Host country France pitched the conference as a consensus-building exercise. The summit comes amid growing recognition of the scale of the financial challenges…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Beijing Sunday with the agenda of mending fences with China amid a number of disagreements on international issues — the first trip by a senior US official to China in nearly five years. The trip was originally scheduled for February which was…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will visit China next week on the invitation of President Xi Jinping. In a statement, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said Mahmoud Abbas will make four-day visit from 13th of this month. Earlier, in a phone call with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, China’s Foreign…

 An explosion inside a mosque in northern Afghanistan on Thursday killed at least 11 people during the funeral of the Taliban’s provincial deputy governor, who died in an attack earlier this week, officials said. The Taliban-run Ministry of Interior said that more than 30 people were also injured in the…