COVID-19 Initiatives: Alwaleed Philanthropist, ICESCO sign MoU to help 10 African countries
Alwaleed Philanthropies, chaired by HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Al Saud, and The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...
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Malaysia records emergence of new cluster of coronavirus
Malaysian health officials have reported the emergence of a new cluster of coronavirus in a Malaysian town after a football...
California corrections officer arrested for inappropriate relationship with inmate
A Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office correctional officer has been arrested after being accused of having an “inappropriate relationship” with an...
Iraq, UN deliberate participation to hold early elections
UN Envoy to Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi have today discussed cooperation related to holding early...
INTERPOL arrest two Nigerians for defrauding a state in Germany
Security operatives have arrested two suspects for allegedly defrauding the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia of €2.3 million COVID-19 fund....
California records hottest temperatures as wildfires burn statewide
Californian authorities have said dozens of wildfires were burning in the state early Monday amid record-breaking temperatures that strained the...
CenturionPlus announces support towards Mozambique’s economic, energy boom
Centurion Law Group has announced the launch and opening of its lawyers-on-demand service, CenturionPlus, in Mozambique. CenturionPlus will especially focus...
Maryland universities begin suspensions of students over coronavirus-restriction violations
Maryland universities have begun temporary suspension of dozens of students for allegedly violating COVID-19 restrictions. On Sunday August 6, 2020,...
Germany urges Russia to respond to Navalny’s poisoning to protect gas pipeline project
Germany has exerted pressure on Moscow saying that Russia’s failure to provide the needed support in the investigation into Russian’s...
Death toll rises to 24 after Bangladesh mosque explosion
Bangladesh officials have disclosed that death toll from a gas explosion that struck through a mosque has risen to 24....
Erdogan threatens Greece over oil, gas rights
Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has issued new threats to Greece as tensions soared between the two countries over rights...
HK police arrest 289 at protests over election delay
Hong Kong police have arrested 289 people at protests over election delay. Hundreds took to the streets on Sunday September...
Bangladesh gas explosion kills 13, injures 30
A gas pipeline explosion which occurred near a mosque in Bangladesh has killed 13 people and injured 30 as worshippers...
IOM receives new funding to support integrated humanitarian, recovery support in South Sudan
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has received new funding from the United States Agency for International Development’s Bureau for...
UAE betrayed Muslim world with Israel deal — Iran’s Khamenei
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned UAE-Israel business deal. While condemning the deal in a speech on Tuesday...
Mali can’t afford to stand alone — President Muhammadu Buhari
The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday in Abuja joined ECOWAS Heads of State and Governments in a virtual meeting,...
Bangladesh government restores Internet, mobile network for Rohingya refugees
Bangladesh’s government has restored internet and high-speed mobile network and for the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar after unceasing...
Libya suspends interior minister after gunmen fire on protesters
Libya's internationally recognised government has suspended its interior minister, Fathi Bashagha. The suspension of the minister on Friday was as...
MERCOSUR to exempt 600 Egyptian-produced items from customs duties
The Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry, Nevine Gamea, has announced plan to enforce a full customs exemption on 600...
Saudi Electricity Company signs 2 bn deal with local banks
The Saudi Electricity Company has agreed on a 9 billion riyal ($2.4 billion) syndicated Islamic loan with seven major local...
EU approves financial aid program to support Turkish community in Cyprus
The European Commission has approved a €31.6 million ($37.3 million) aid program to support the Turkish community in Cyprus. This...
UK Royal Air Force sends aircraft to monitor migrant crossings
Britain's Royal Air Force in response to the increasing number of immigrant crossing from France, on Wednesday August 12, 2020,...
Yemen official detained in Cairo airport for possession of over $1m
Ali Al-Nuaimi, a high-ranking official in the internationally-recognised Yemeni government has been detained at Cairo International Airport for allegedly in...
Sudanese traders lament export ban on peanuts, call for suspension
Traders in Sudan have lamented the suspension of export ban on raw peanuts by the government. The country has been...
Ethiopia rejects agreement on renaissance dam
Ethiopia has rejected the agreement on Renaissance Dam Egyptian and Ethiopian officials released separate statements to express the divergence between...
Gunmen kill 6 French tourists, 2 others in Niger
Gunmen have killed six French tourists and two Nigeriens in a wildlife park in Niger. While confirming this on Sunday...
Algeria lifts travel restrictions, shortens curfew
Algerian government has announced plan to further ease its coronavirus lockdown from Sunday by shortening an overnight curfew and lifting...
250 students, staff quarantine in Georgia week after school reopening
After a week into the school new year in one Georgia school district, over 250 students and teachers are now...
Britain’s Met Office urges citizens to prepare for high temperatures
Britain’s Met Office has urged British citizens to prepare for record-breaking temperatures. This was disclosed on Friday August 7, 2020,...
Gaza records decline in Covid-19 cases, orders reopening of schools
Authorities in Gaza have ordered the reopening of schools, following the decline in the number of Covid-19 cases in the...
UAE health minister announces surge in COVID-19, warns against social gatherings
United Arab Emirates Minister of Health and Prevention, Abdul Rahman Mohammed Al Owais, has announced an increase in new COVID-19...
Woman dies in motorcycle crash in St. Paul, driver flees
A motorcycle crash has killed a woman in St. Paul on Thursday night August 6, 2020. St. Paul police department...
Nigerian-born basketballer Micheal Ojo dies of heart attack
Micheal Ojo, 27, Nigerian-born basketball player and former Florida center has died of a heart attack at a hospital in...
New York Attorney General sues NRA for fraud, seeks dissolution
Letitia James, New York Attorney General, has sued the National Rifle Association, a not-for-profit organization for financial misconduct, and sought...
3 Nigerians emerge winners of Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest
Three Nigerians, Olowo Qudus Opeyemi, Ude Vivian Chidimma and Abah Abah Oyagaba have emerged the winners of the June/July 2020...
Ex-official accuses Saudi Crown Prince of assassination plot
Former senior Saudi intelligence official, Saad Aljabri, has alleged in a US law suit that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...
15,000 Ethiopian returnees receive emergency Covid-19 assistance at quarantine sites
Not less than 15,000 Ethiopian returnees, many of whom are vulnerable women and children languishing at quarantine sites, have received...
Ex-Israel MK declares Beirut blast as gift from God
A former Israeli member of the Knesset, Moshe Feiglin, has hailed the Beirut's explosion as a "gift from God" in...
Egypt, Greece sign agreement to exclusive economic zone
Egypt and Greece have signed an agreement to an exclusive economic zone in the eastern Mediterranean between the two countries....
South Korea donates $10 million food aid to North Korea
South Korean government has donated $10 million (11.9 billion won) to North Korea via a World Food Programme (WFP) aid...
Torrential rains strike Sudan, destroy houses, infrastructure
United Nations has reported that more than 50,000 people have been affected by flooding across Sudan over the past week....
EU activates Civil Protection System to assist emergency workers in Beirut
The European Union has activated its civil protection system to round up emergency workers and equipment from across the 27-nation...
China’s U.S convoy debunks interest in China-US tension rise
The Chinese ambassador to the U.S., Cui Tiankai has said that China is not interested in seeing the tension between...
Amsterdam insists on mask wearing as coronavirus cases surge
Amsterdam has succumbed to the use of face mask as it ordered citizens to wear mask especially in crowded places...
Tropical storm Isaias topples tree, kills man in Queens
A man sitting in his van in Queens have been crushed to death on Tuesday August 4th, 2020, after Tropical...
China pledges to retaliate if US Persists with hostility against Chinese journalists
China on Tuesday vowed to retaliate "in the same vein" if the United States persist with its “hostile action” against...
Morocco battles spike in Covid-19, shuts major cities
The government of morocco has shut down its major cities, following the spike in coronavirus cases in the country. While...
Muslim Coalition Against COVID-19 concludes 2nd Phase of palliative distribution to Nigerians
Muslim Coalition Against COVID-19 has concluded the second phase of its palliative distribution. The second phase of the palliative distribution...
Khashoggi’s fiancee sues Saudi prince for murder
Hatice Cengiz, fiancee to late Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, has filed a suit in US district court against Saudi...