LONDON, May 6, (Agencies): Sadiq Khan, the son of a bus driver, became London’s first Muslim mayor on Friday, seeing off a Conservative challenger who …
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Pak doctors treating ‘solar kids’ brothers
ISLAMABAD, May 6, (AP): The two brothers have come to be known as the “solar kids” and their case has mystified Pakistani doctors. Aged nine …
Read More »Mumbai court strikes down beef ban
An Indian court on Friday struck down a tough law that had banned the consumption of beef in the western state of Maharashtra, dealing a …
Read More »US strike kills top Australian in IS – Canberra warns others targeted
SYDNEY, May 5, (Agencies): Australia’s most wanted Islamic State terror suspect, linked to several attacks on home soil, has been killed in a US air …
Read More »Saudi raid on ‘ISIS’ kills 4
RIYADH, May 5, (AFP): Saudi police shot dead two suspected militants and two others blew themselves up during a raid near the holy city of …
Read More »Saudi executes Jordanian drug smuggler
RIYADH, May 5, (AFP): Saudi Arabia on Thursday put to death a Jordanian convicted of drug trafficking, in the kingdom’s 91st execution this year. Maher …
Read More »Pakistani woman ‘strangled’
A Pakistani woman was drugged, strangled and then her body set ablaze because she helped her friend elope, police said Thursday, announcing the arrest of …
Read More »Saudi Arabia carries out 90th execution of ’16
RIYADH, May 4, (AFP): Saudi Arabia executed a citizen convicted of murder on Wednesday taking to 90 the number of people the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom …
Read More »Belgium jails jihadist recruiters for Syria – Albanian court sentences 9, including 3 Muslim clerics
BRUSSELS, May 4, (Agencies): A Brussels court on Tuesday handed jail terms of up to seven years to 26 members of a group that recruited …
Read More »Bangladeshis held – Extremist cell plotted attacks
SINGAPORE/DHAKA, May 4, (RTRS): Eight Bangladeshi men held in Singapore for allegedly plotting attacks in their homeland had formed an Islamist cell that met in …
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