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A Dutch court on Wednesday sentenced a person to 90 days in jail for threatening Muslims on social media. According to a statement by the court, the 33-year-old person threatened Muslims with death after the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand. On

Two weeks before the upcoming election in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to implement direct flights from Tel Aviv to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, in a Facebook post which was deleted moments after going live online. Written in both Arabic

The Tripoli-based internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) called on the U.N. on Thursday to bring putschist Khalifa Haftar to account for his recent violations of the cease-fire that happened just one day after the U.N. Security Council adopted a

Climate change impacts threaten economic and development gains across Africa. To address the pressing needs of this crisis, the European Union has announced EUR 1 million in new funding to the Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI). The grant will be implemented by

An Indian nurse working at a hospital in southwestern Saudi Arabia has been infected by the coronavirus amid an outbreak that has killed 17 people in China, India’s minister of state for external affairs said Thursday. “About 100 Indian nurses, mostly

China broadened its unprecedented, open-ended lockdowns to encompass around 41 million people Friday to try to contain a deadly new virus that has sickened hundreds, though the measures’ potential for success is uncertain. At least 13 cities have been shut down,

Gunmen on Thursday killed 19 people in a raid on a rural community in central Nigeria night, police said Friday. The assailants, yet unidentified, attacked the village of Tawari in Kogi State, 100 kilometres south of the federal capital Abuja, and

Libya’s eastern-based parliament on Saturday voted against an agreement that would allow Ankara to send troops to Libya. The internationally recognized Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) voted against a deployment requested by the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA). The Western-based GNA had