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Islamic jurist, guardian of people’s beliefs:Ayatollah Wah...
( Iran )
Tehran:These flesh, skin and bone of ours are not criteria of human values, since the animals possess these elements in stronger forms, yet what accounts for humanitarian value and dignity is ration and our power of thinking. These flesh, skin and bone of ours are not criteria of human values, since the animals possess these elements in stronger forms, yet what accounts for humanitarian value and dignity is ration and our power of thinking. Speaking at a meeting with Qom Seminary scholars on...
Iran stops Hajj amid Saudi sabotage...
( Iran )
Tehran:Iran says it will not send pilgrims to Hajj this year because Saudi Arabia is refusing to cooperate on arrangements for Iranians to join the annual rituals in September. “Conditions are not prepared for conducting Hajj; we have lost the time; we made our utmost effort but the sabotage is coming from the Saudis,” Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati said on Thursday. An Iranian delegation held four days of talks in Saudi Arabia last month aimed at thrashing out...
Bangladesh executes Jamaat-e-Islami leader Nizami...
( Bangladesh )
Dhaka:Bangladesh has executed a top leader of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami, Motiur Rahman Nizami, for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. “Motiur Rahman has been hanged to death at 12:10 a.m. (Wednesday),” Jahangir Kabir, Superintendent of the Dhaka Central Jail said. The 73-year-old was hanged after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal on May 5. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters on Tuesday evening that Nizami did not opt to seek presidential...
ISIS Burns a Whole Family to Death on Charge of Escaping in ...
( Iraq )
Baghdad:Accusing them of attempting to escape, ISIS militants have burned a family to death in northern Iraq. AhlulBayt News Agency – Accusing them of attempting to escape, ISIS militants have burned a family to death in northern Iraq. Iraqi media reported on Tuesday that ISIS insurgents captured a family who were attempting to escape the terrorists-held territories, and burned them in public. The victims, consisting of three children and their parents, were burned to death in public...
Turkey refuses EU call to amend terrorism law...
( Turkey )
Turkey says it will not make changes to its terrorism laws required under a controversial deal with the European Union (EU) aimed at stemming the flow of refugees to Europe. “It is not possible for us to accept any changes to the counter-terrorism law,” Volkan Bozkir, Turkey’s minister for EU affairs, told the Turkish NTV broadcaster on Wednesday. Turkey’s current terrorism law already meets the EU’s standards and there had been no agreement to reform the legislation in exchange...
Pakistani activist Khurram Zaki murdered in Karachi...
( Pakistan )
Islambad:A prominent Pakistani journalist and human rights activist, Khurram Zaki, has been shot dead in Karachi. Mr Zaki was dining in a restaurant in the city’s north when suspects opened fire from motorbikes, reports say. He was an editor of the website Let us Build Pakistan, which condemns sectarianism and is seen as promoting democratic and progressive values. The spokesman for a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban has said they were behind the shooting. He said they killed him because...
Leaked:Saudi King financed Netanyahu’s 2015 election bid...
( Zionist Israel )
Tel Aviv:A member of Israel’s Knesset (parliament) has revealed that Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud helped finance the election campaign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2015. Citing a massive leak of confidential documents dubbed the “Panama Papers,” Isaac Herzog, who is the chairman of the Israeli Labor party said, “In March 2015, King Salman has deposited eighty million dollars to support Netanyahu’s campaign via a Syrian-Spanish person named Mohamed Eyad...
Israeli mask fell from Saudi Arabia:Sayyed Nasrallah...
( Lebanon )
Beirut:Leader of Islamic Resistance and Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said the Israeli enemy in its attempt to beat the resistance elements of strength went on waging a war against Syria, deploring the Saudi contacts with ‘Israel’ that started to come out to the public. Sayyed Nasrallah During a ceremony held by the Islamic Resistance Support Organization on Friday, Sayyed Nasrallah said the resistance incubator environment was one of the most important elements of strengths...
Daesh launched attack in Iraq...
( Iraq )
Baghdad:Daesh terrorists have reportedly used internationally-banned chemical weapons in their recent offensive against a Shia Turkmen-populated town in Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk. Head of the Iraqi Turkmen Front, Arshad Salihi, said in a statement on Friday that the extremists lobbed a barrage of mortar rounds, which contained chemical agents, on the town of Tuz Khurmatu, situated 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) south of oil-rich city of Kirkuk, on March 9. Three civilians lost their lives...
5,677 Palestinians arrested by Israel since last October...
( Palestine )
Gaza:Israeli forces have arrested up to 5,677 Palestinians since last October, which marks the beginning of what is regarded as the third Palestinian Intifada (uprising), a Palestinian committee says. The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said on Friday that the detentions were made across the Palestinian territories. Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, the head of the commission, also accused Israeli authorities of spreading terror and panic among Palestinians while employing force...