Refugee Zakat Fund helps around 6 million forcibly displaced people since its...
Dubai [UAE], March 21: UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, launched its Islamic Philanthropy annual report today at a joint event in Dubai in partnership with...
Brunei plans to build waste-to-electricity incinerator plant
Bandar Seri Begawan [Brunei], March 20: Brunei plans to build a waste incineration plant that can process 800 to 1,000 tons of waste per day...
Israeli, Palestinian officials meet in Egypt
Cairo [Egypt],March 20: Israeli and Palestinian Authority (PA) officials are meeting in Egypt for talks amid criticism and calls for a boycott by Palestinian political...
Road crash kills 19 in Bangladesh
Dhaka [Bangladesh], March 20: At least 19 people have been killed and up to 25 were injured in Bangladesh after a bus smashed through a...
N Korea fires ballistic missile
Seoul [South Korea], March 20: North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on Sunday, Seoul's military said, the fourth show of force in a week...
Iran, Iraq ink border deal
Baghdad [Iraq], March 20: Iran's top security official on Sunday signed a deal with Iraqi authorities for "protection" of their common border, the Iraqi prime...
Assad in UAE amid growing Arab outreach
Dubai [UAE], March 20: Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad met Sunday with Emirati leaders in Abu Dhabi, his second Gulf visit since last month's earthquake in...
UBS - Switzerland's largest bank officially acquired Credit Suisse
Switzerland,March 20: Swiss bank UBS has agreed to buy crisis-hit rival Credit Suisse for 3 billion francs ($3.23 billion), while taking over losses of up...
Talk of Trump arrest builds sympathy for the former president, Sununu says
Washington [US], March 20: The possibility that Donald Trump may be charged for allegedly covering up hush money payments to a porn star during his...
Macron would like the reform of the pension system to be introduced...
Paris [France], March 20:French President Emmanuel Macron (Emmanuel Macron) expressed today his wish that his hated reform of the pension system "can finish its democratic...
Rocket fired from Gaza hits southern Israel amid heightened tension
Jerusalem [Israel], March 19: A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit an open area landed in southern Israel on Saturday, according to the Israeli...
New Zealand to ban TikTok from lawmaker's phones
Wellington [New Zealand], March 19: New Zealand on Friday will follow other Western countries and ban the video-sharing app TikTok from lawmakers' devices due to...
Pressure mounts on Netanyahu as protests enter 11th week
Tel Aviv [Israel], March 19: Thousands of people came out in force again on Saturday in Israel to protest the right-wing religious government's controversial judicial...
Tony Blair: Putin can't use Iraq as justification for Ukraine
London [UK], March 19: Former UK prime minister Tony Blair is by turns pensive and defiant as he reflects on the upcoming anniversaries of two...
Kyiv thanks UN, Turkey for 'sticking to' grain deal agreements
Kyiv [Ukraine], March 19: Ukraine's infrastructure minister on Saturday thanked the United Nations and Turkey for adhering to the agreements of a deal that allowed...
Biden celebrates St Patrick's Day with Irish PM Varadkar
Washington [US], March 19: US President Joe Biden and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar painted the town green Friday, celebrating Saint Patrick's Day-and touting Biden's...
Finland on course to join NATO
Ankara [Turkey], March 19: Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan ended months of diplomatically charged delays on Friday and asked parliament to quickly back Finland's bid to...
Trump expects 'arrest', calls for protests
Washington [US], March 19: Former US President Donald Trump said he expects to be "arrested" on Tuesday over hush money allegedly paid to a porn...
Int'l war crimes court issues arrest warrant for Putin
The Hague [Netherlands], March 19: The International Criminal Court on Friday announced an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on the war crime accusation...
WHO: COVID poses similar threat to flu
Geneva [Switzerland], March 19: The COVID-19 pandemic could settle down this year to a point where it poses a threat similar to flu, the World...
US leadership role in Middle East facing deep challenges
Washington [US], March 19: China's shock success at bringing Saudi Arabia and Iran together has challenged the United States' longstanding role as the key outside...
Temporary increase in egg, poultry prices aims to ensure balanced merchant-consumer relationship:...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], March 19: The Ministry of Economy said that increasing prices of eggs and poultry products in the UAE comes in accordance with...
UAE Jiu-Jitsu Federation supports 'Bridges of Goodness' for quake-hit victims
Abu Dhabi [UAE], March 19: The UAE Jiu-Jitsu Federation said the proceeds of registration in the Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship 2023 will be...
President Biden says banking crisis has subsided
Washington [US], March 18: US President Joe Biden said the banking crisis had subsided after the bankruptcy of two mid-sized banks.
Building collapse kills 5, injures 2 in south Egypt
Cairo [Egypt], March 18: At least five people were killed and another two wounded on Friday after a building collapsed in the southern Egyptian province...
Somali bank acquires 62.5 pct stake in Kenyan bank
Nairobi [Kenya], March 18: Somali lender, Premier Bank, has acquired a 62.5 percent stake in Kenya's First Community Bank Limited (FCB), the Central Bank of...
Huawei launches Wi-Fi 7 for east African market to spur internet connectivity
Nairobi [Kenya], March 18: Chinese technology firm Huawei on Friday launched its latest Wi-Fi technology, Wi-Fi 7 for the east African market in a bid...