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New evidence shows Saudi use of cluster bombs in Yemen:Amnes...
( Yemen )
Geneva:Amnesty International says new evidence confirms that Saudi Arabia has used US-manufactured cluster munitions in a recent airstrike on the Yemeni capital of Sana’a. On Friday, the London-based rights group said Riyadh dropped the internationally banned cluster munitions on Sana’a in an air attack on January 6, which killed a 16-year-old boy and injured at least six other civilians. The organization also said the attack scattered submunitions in at least four different residential neighborhoods. Amnesty...
Israeli court rejects Palestinian bid for jail release...
( Palestine )
Gaza:An Israeli military court has dismissed an appeal by a hunger striking Palestinian journalist to end his administrative detention. Palestinian Minister for Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqe told Ma’an news agency on Saturday that the Ofer prison court ruled to maintain the six-month administrative detention period forMuhammad al-Qiq despite the inmate’s worsening health condition. Qaraqe said the court’s decision “proves intentions of revenge” by the Tel Aviv regime against the Palestinian...
Entire Indian leadership committed to Palestinian cause: Sus...
( India )
New Delhi:External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday said the entire Indian leadership remains steadfastly committed to the Palestinian cause as Palestine sought India’s participation in the West Asia peace process to help defuse crisis in the region. Swaraj, who is on her first visit to West Asia as the External Affairs Minister, held talks with the top leadership here and reaffirmed India’s consistent support for the Palestinian cause, emphasising that there has been “absolutely...
US-led drone strike kills over dozen in eastern Afghanistan...
( Afghanistan )
Kabul:More than a dozen people have been killed in a drone strike carried out by US-led foreign forces in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar. The 201st Selab (Flood) Corps of the Afghan National Army announced in a statement that the aerial attack was conducted in the Dih Bala district of the province, which is located 120 kilometers (74 miles) east of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday. The statement further identified the deceased as seventeen members of Daesh Takfiri militant...
US imposes sanctions on Iran for ballistic missile program...
(Srinagar)
Washington:The US Department of the Treasury says it has imposed new sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program. The Treasury Department made the announcement in a statement issued on Sunday, only a day after sanctions targeting Iran’s nuclear energy program were lifted. The statement said five Iranian citizens and a network of companies based in the United Arab Emirates and China were added to a US blacklist. The network “obfuscated the end user of sensitive goods for missile...
Daesh kidnaps 400 civilians in Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr: R...
( Syria )
Damascus:Daesh Takfiri terrorists have kidnapped at least 400 civilians, including women and children, in an assault on Syria’s eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr, a monitoring group says. Following its Saturday attack on Dayr al-Zawr, Daesh “abducted at least 400 civilians from the residents of the al-Baghaliyeh neighborhood it captured, and adjacent areas in the northwest of the city,” the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Sunday. Rami Abdel Rahman, the SOHR director, added...
Sanctions imposed over Iran’s nuclear program lifted...
( Geneva )
Viena:Sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program are lifted following confirmation of Tehran’s commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made the announcement during a joint press conference in Vienna on Saturday (17th January 2016)
Mogherini read out a statement in English which was subsequently read out by Zarif in Persian.
“As...
Pakistani forces detain 42 Daesh-linked suspects in Punjab: ...
( Pakistan )
Islamabad”Pakistani counter-terrorism forces have arrested more than 40 militant suspects with alleged links to the Daesh terrorist group across the country’s eastern province of Punjab. Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah confirmed on Monday that at least 42 suspects were detained after police commandos from the counter-terrorism department raided their hideouts in four Punjab cities over the weekend. “The arrests were the result of raids in four Punjab cities over the weekend,” said...
Lucknow Hindu, Shia, Sunni religious leaders urge intl. sanc...
( India )
Lucknow:Demanding international sanctions against Saudi Arabia for execution of leading Muslim cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, thousands of Shias in Lucknow staged a massive protest on Sunday. The Grand rally was organized under the banner of the Majlis-e-Ulama-e-Hind (MUH), an all India organization of Shia clerics, the protest also saw participation of some Sunni Muslims and Hindu religious leaders including Sunni Sufi leader Maulana Hasnain and Acharya Pramod Krishnan. Led by Shia cleric Maulana...
Top Sunni cleric Molvi Salamai denounces Al-Nimr execution...
(Srinagar)
Tehran:The representative of Sistan and Baluchistan in the Assembly of Experts, Molavi Nazir Ahmad Salami in an interview with Taqrib News Agency (TNA) underscored, “Inviting to good, enjoining what is right and forbidding the wrong among Muslims was the mission of religious clerics and does not no Shiites and Sunnis”.Wilayat Times reports; “After writing so many letters to Saudi state with this connection, we expect Saudi rulers do not perpetrate such measure,” underlined Molavi Nazir Ahmad...