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Saudi Arabia keeps reduced Haj quota in 2015

Haj quota

Saudi Arabia will keep the quota of Haj for Muslims from around the globe at a level that is 50% lower than the normal quota in 2015 due to the ongoing construction and renovation of the Grand Mosque in Makkah to expand it to hold 2.2 million pilgrims at a time. The $2.2 billion expansion […]

Holland assumes responsibility for 3oo Srebrenica victims

UN Peacekeepers

The Dutch courts have held the state responsible, for the first time,  for death of 300 Bosnian Muslim men on July 13, 1995 during the fall of Srebrenica. Dutch peacekeepers stationed in the city of Bosniak majority collaborated in the deportation of the group of Muslims by Bosnian Serb troops under General Ratko Mladic, who […]

Two arrested for the accident in Moscow metro

moscow subway accident

The Russian Federal Police have arrested Wednesday two technicians of the public company of the Moscow metro for Tuesday accident that left at least 21 dead and over 150 injured when a train derailed between two stations. Authorities accuse arrested were involved in an alleged breach of safety regulations, reported the official news agency Itar […]

Israel orders Gaza 100,000 Palestinians to evacuate their homes

israel shelling on gaza

Israel on Tuesday night continued their bombardment of the Gaza Strip, where authorities reported that the number of Palestinians killed in one week already exceeded 200. Several attacks targeted private homes for at least five Hamas leaders, including  the former Foreign Minister of the government of Gaza, Mahmoud Zahar. By Wednesday morning, Palestinians in the […]

Canada changing immigration rules for foreign workers in 2015

Canadian immigration minister chris alexander

Citizenship and Immigration Canada is introducing a new Express Entry electronic application management system in January 2015 in a bid to reduce the backlog and match the newly arriving permanent residents with jobs already secured. Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander met with business leaders and other stakeholders to discuss the new Express Entry system […]

World must stop Palestinians genocide by Israel – Nawaz

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Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday called the Israeli brutal atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza Strip as genocide asking the world to urgently stop the Israel’s naked aggression. Nawaz Sharif in a statement that these crimes against innocent civilians, women children and elderly, were unparalleled in the recent history of the world. “I am […]

U.S. soldier released by Taliban returns to active duty

Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl

One step closer to normal: just six weeks of his release after spending nearly five years in the hands of the Taliban, American Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, 28, returns to active duty, who will be by the time at a military base in Texas, confirmed Monday the Pentagon. “The Sergeant Bergdahl has completed the final phase […]

Jean-Claude Juncker elected president of European Commission

Jean-Claude Juncker

The leader of the European People’s Party narrowly won the elections on May 25, marked by the irresistible rise of the populists. Although the PPE lost 60 MEPs from 2009, managed to slip the Social Democrat Martin Schulz by a margin of more than 20 seats. And after the election got the hard part: convincing […]

Netanyahu pledges to intensify Israeli offensive against Gaza

gaza strip shelling by israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said on Tuesday that Hamas has left us no choice but to intensify the military offensive in Gaza after truce plan offered by Egypt did not work out.  Almost 200 people had died in Gaza as result of Israeli shelling during the past 8 days whereas one Israeli citizen […]

UN mission in Libya evacuated after increased violence

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The UN has evacuated staff from its mission in Libya (UNSMIL) due to the security situation in the country, which has continued to deteriorate in recent days with about a dozen deaths over the weekend. “Following the recent fighting on Sunday and because of the closure of the international airport in Tripoli, the mission concluded […]

A suicide attack causes carnage in an Afghan market

afghanistan blast kills many

The explosion of a car bomb caused a massacre Tuesday in a market in Afghanistan. At least 89 civilians, including many children, have died in the suicide attack and 42 were injured. The blast occurred at a market Orgun District, Paktika Province (eastern Afghanistan). “Right now, the police are taking the wounded to hospitals,” the […]

At least 16 killed in subway accident in Moscow

moscow subway accident

At least sixteen people were killed and over a hundred were injured as a result of an accident at rush hour on Tuesday morning on the subway in the Russian capital. Many of the injured were in critical condition at the clinics where they were receiving medical treatment. The accident occurred when three cars derailed […]

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