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STOCKHOLM Aug 25 (Online): Plainclothes police attempted on Thursday to silence a man who was protesting against Iraqi-born refugee Salwan Momika’s desecration of the Holy Quran in the Swedish capital Stockholm. Police intervened as Kais Tunisia was loudly responding to Momika’s words while desecrating the […]

NEW YORK, Aug 25 (PNI): The United Pakistani-American Christian Community held a protest demonstration in front of the United Nation’s headquarters in New York against the Jaranwala incident. Addressing the protestors, former federal minister for Minorities Affairs, Akram Masih Gill strongly condemned the terrible attack […]

SUDAN, August 24 (Internews): People trapped in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman say civilians are being deliberately targeted in shelling by the warring parties. A woman who had been helping wounded soldiers was killed along with her three children and […]

PARIS, August 24 (Internews): It wasn’t just your carousell, worldwide baggage handling rates were at their worst in a decade last year. Mishandling rates reached a 10-year-high at the end of 2022 as airports and airline workers scrambled to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. 2022 […]

TOKYO, August 24 (Internews): The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it began releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean a controversial step, but a milestone in Japan’s battle with the growing radioactive water stockpile. In […]

Arbil, Iraq, Aug 24 (AFP/APP): Three members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed Thursday in a Turkish drone strike in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, authorities said. “A Turkish army drone struck a PKK vehicle, killing an official and two fighters” of the group — […]

SOUTH KOREA, August 24 (Internews): South Korean Joint Chief of Staff said Thursday that the military detected a North Korean projectile likely a space rocket as Pyongyang earlier indicated Japanese Coast Guards about firing a satellite into space once again. In a statement to reporters, […]