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Kim is set to hold a historic meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at a border village on April 27 [File: Reuters] Kim is set to hold a historic meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at a border village on April 27 [File: Reuters] A North Korean nuclear site in the country’s north […]

Ali Shamkhani The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani has said Iran will show no restraint if the US further delays approving the nuclear deal or keeps violating it. “International treaties are signed for stability, and the parties commit themselves to take simultaneous actions,” Aki Shamkhani told reporters in a press […]

A model holds up an information leaflet outlining the Austrian restrictions on face covering. Photo: Joe Klamar/AFP A leukaemia patient wearing a medical face mask in Vienna was stopped under a ban on the full Islamic veil and other face-coverings brought in last year, police admitted on Monday. The 26-year-old man, interviewed by the Vice […]

Rahma Mohamed couldn’t find a book that had Muslims of African descent in it, so she wrote one. Here, she’s reading her book to children. (Rahma Mohamed/Supplied) Rahma Mohamed first arrived in Canada from Somalia at eight years old. She learned to read at age 10 and instantly fell in love with it. But she had […]

Participants of a press conference organized by the Institute of Korean Cultural Studies wear masks of President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, Wednesday. The press conference was held to wish for a successful inter-Korean summit on Friday. / Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul The government […]

Earlier in April, Trump said Saudi Arabia had to pay if it wanted US troops to remain in Syria [Shawn Thew/EPA-EFE] US president says wealthy Middle East countries must foot the bill for US presence in Syria and deploy their own troops. US President Donald Trump has said that some “immensely wealthy” countries in the […]

Photo: AFP Ministers from 80 countries and nearly 500 experts gather in Paris from Wednesday for a conference on combating the financing of terror groups such as Islamic State and al-Qaeda, French officials said. Attacks have become increasingly low-cost since the 9/11 atrocities in the United States in 2001, particularly in recent years when followers […]

A woman wearing a Muslim headscarf walks past people holding US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump signs before the start of the annual Muslim Day Parade in the Manhattan borough of New York City, on September 25, 2016. (Reuters) The 300 hate crimes were a slice of the 2,599 incidents CAIR logged as representing anti-Muslim […]

Sultan Hashim Ahmad, left, and Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf in Baghdad in this March 23, 2003 photo. (AP) Fourteen officials from Saddam Hussein’s regime are still in Iraq’s prisons, 15 years after the late dictator was deposed by a US-led invasion in 2003, according to an AFP survey. Of the list of 55 suspects most wanted […]

Central Jewish Council President advises Germany’s Jews against wearing kippas in major cities. Photo: DPA The recent attack on two men wearing kippas in Berlin has alarmed the Central Jewish Council. On Tuesday its President, Josef Schuster, advised Germany’s Jews against wearing kippas in cities like Berlin or Munich. “Confessing defiantly would in principle be […]