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In a tit-for-tat move, Iran on Wednesday announced fresh sanctions against dozens of individuals and entities affiliated with the European Union and the UK, Anadolu News Agency reports. In...
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January 25, 2023
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Muhammad Hussein
It is the unfortunate – or fortunate, depending on one's propensity to autocracy – nature of every decentralised system in this modern age to become centralised under the scope...
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Guyana is in talks with Qatar, UAE, Britain and India to explore offshore oil and gas blocks in conjunction with a bidding round this year, President Irfaan Ali said...
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Once you have embraced Islam, you become part of the Islamic tradition, said Lauren Booth, one of Britain's most high-profile Muslim converts, Anadolu News Agency reports. "So my history...
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A Shariah-compliant fintech start-up has launched a physical branch in Britain, targeting the country's 3.9 million Muslim population. The "halal investing platform," Wahed inaugurated its first branch on London's...
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Two high profile politicians have made problems for themselves by posting videos travelling in cars without seatbelts. In the UK, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did it and was fined by the police, it remains to be seen if Israel's minister in charge of police Itamar Ben Gvir will get the same treatment.
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A twenty-billion-dollar takeover bid (£16bn) by Saudi Arabia to buy Formula One was rejected by the sport's current owners, Liberty Media. The American firm had bought F1 in 2017...
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Two hundred unaccompanied minors are still missing from Home Office-commissioned hotels after being kidnapped, the UK's immigration minister admitted yesterday. The kidnapping of minors was revealed in an Observer...
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January 21, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The Global Firepower (GFP) ranking was published on 6 January. The annual report classifies the world's strongest militaries based on over 60 factors, including size, spending and technological advancements....
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The UK Labour Party under Keir Starmer could drop its commitment to the recognition of a Palestinian state from its election manifesto, Jewish News reported yesterday. The paper cited...
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January 17, 2023
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Nasim Ahmed
A staunch critic of the highly controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism is reportedly being considered by the UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, to become the...
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Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar met his British counterpart Ben Wallace in London on Monday. The two officials discussed regional defence and security issues as well as bilateral cooperation...
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The top Court in London granted an appeal to a charity which challenged the Court's decision that the government's plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda while their status...
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Iran's former deputy defense minister, Alireza Akbari, was executed in the wee hours of Saturday morning, days after being sentenced to death on charges of spying for Britain.
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Pret A Manger is facing increasing pressure to scrap plans to launch its popular coffee chain in apartheid Israel. FOA has launched the #PretAPartheid campaign in response to the...
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The United Arab Emirates and Britain signed, on Friday, a Memorandum of Understanding to enhance strategic and technical cooperation in the energy sector, UAE state news agency (WAM) said,...
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Thousands of Afghan citizens who served Britain in its army and other bodies were evacuated with their families from Afghanistan in what was reported as the biggest British military...
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British-Iranian relations, which have been strained for decades, were back in the spotlight after Iranian authorities sentenced to death British-Iranian national, Alireza Akbari, for spying, charges he denies. Here...
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January 13, 2023
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Nabila Ramdani
Sending Harry, a Prince of the Realm, to help bring democracy to Afghanistan was always a crass idea. The UK King's son owes everything in his life to hereditary privilege and not...
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Britain and Saudi Arabia have reached an agreement to strengthen cooperation on diversifying sources of critical minerals, including graphite and lithium, the British government said in a statement. This...
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Iranian state media published a video on Thursday which they said showed that British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, who is in detention and sentenced to death for spying, played a...
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Lord Tariq Ahmad, British Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and United Nations at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), performed prayer on...
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The UK has come under fire for "turning a blind eye" to the racism of the far-right Israeli government following the first ministerial-level visit to the apartheid state since...
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The Iranian judiciary yesterday sentenced former deputy defence minister Alireza Akbari to death on charges of spying for Britain. An Iranian Ministry of Intelligence statement described Akbari, who served...
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Britain's Minister for the Middle East, on Wednesday reiterated the UK's "continued support" for the Palestinian people and the commitment to two-state solution, Anadolu News Agency reports. Minister Tariq...
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Prince Harry has hit back at "hurtful" responses to his record-selling memoir, saying he was particularly upset by the "lie" that he had boasted that he had killed 25...
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A new report from Oxfam has revealed UK and US weapons sold to Saudi Arabia are fuelling civilian deaths in Yemen. The charity is calling on governments to stop selling weapons to the Saudi-led coalition
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A district council in Devon has voted to investigate renting a cruise ship to house refugees and homeless people. The council says that demand for public housing has been...
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The British government has, so far, failed to deliver on its promise to resettle tens of thousands of vulnerable Afghans in the United Kingdom over the coming years, a...
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The Customs and Excise Administration in Morocco has decided to stop imports of cattle from the UK after the discovery of some disease animals, 24 Hours has reported. The...
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The investigative website Declassified UK has revealed that the former UN Envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, is connected with the British intelligence agency MI6 through the private conflict resolution...
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The Taliban administration has criticised Prince Harry after the British Royal said in his memoir that he had killed 25 people in Afghanistan when serving as a military helicopter...