ISTANBUL: A Chinese Muslim refugee has told AFP he is terrified he may be sent back to China after being detained in a deportation center near Istanbul for more than two months. The Uighur community in northwest China has faced an intense crackdown in recent years, with an estimated one million mostly Muslim ethnic minorities…
ISTANBUL: A Chinese Muslim refugee has told AFP he is terrified he may be sent back to China after being detained in a deportation center near Istanbul for more than two months. The Uighur community in northwest China has faced an intense crackdown in recent years, with an estimated one million mostly Muslim ethnic minorities…
Spiritual journey Pilgrims arrive by ferry in 1957. (National Geographic Magazine) Memories of Hajj decades ago A pilgrim comes out of his tent. (Al Ittihad archives) Precious memories Ajyad Street in Makkah during the 1960s. This photo was attached to an autographed Malcom X postcard sent to Gloria Owens, sister of Maceo X Owens, in 1964. Religious enthusiasm Pilgrims…
MINA: They began walking before dawn, hundreds of thousands of men and women, clad in white robes to signify a state of purity. Their destination was Jamarat Al-Aqaba, and a three-story bridge from where they each threw seven pebbles at a pillar to symbolize the stoning of the devil — the last major ritual of…
MINA: They began walking before dawn, hundreds of thousands of men and women, clad in white robes to signify a state of purity. Their destination was Jamarat Al-Aqaba, and a three-story bridge from where they each threw seven pebbles at a pillar to symbolize the stoning of the devil — the last major ritual of…
DUBAI: It was in late 2018 that Paris’ Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) — the Jean Nouvel-designed cultural institution and museum that has enlightened audiences on art and culture from the Arab world for nearly 30 years — announced its largest donation to date, granted by Claude and France Lemand. Claude and France Lemand. (Supplied) Comprising…
What We Are Reading Today: The Corruption Cure by Robert I. Rotberg Corruption corrodes all facets of the world’s political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure puts some 35 countries under an anti-corruption microscope to show exactly how to beat…
What We Are Reading Today: The Corruption Cure by Robert I. Rotberg Corruption corrodes all facets of the world’s political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure puts some 35 countries under an anti-corruption microscope to show exactly how to beat…
LIVERPOOL: Missing out on the Premier League title despite a record-breaking campaign was eased by winning a sixth European Cup for Liverpool last season, but ending a 30-year wait to be crowned English champions is now more important than ever on Merseyside. Jurgen Klopp’s men are expected to strike first blood in the title race when…
LIVERPOOL: Missing out on the Premier League title despite a record-breaking campaign was eased by winning a sixth European Cup for Liverpool last season, but ending a 30-year wait to be crowned English champions is now more important than ever on Merseyside. Jurgen Klopp’s men are expected to strike first blood in the title race when…
MONTREAL: Rafael Nadal and Dominic Thiem advanced into the third round of the ATP Montreal Masters on Wednesday, with Thiem achieving a personal best in Canada. Top-seeded holder Nadal suffered through a two-hour rain interruption before dismissing Britain’s Daniel Evans 7-6 (8/6), 6-4. Austrian second seed Thiem, who claimed a clay title at the weekend at…
BEIJING: Japan’s economy grew much faster than expected in April-June to mark the third straight quarter of expansion, as robust private consumption and business investment offset the hit to exports from cooling global demand. The data offers some relief for the Bank of Japan, which is under pressure to follow other central banks and ramp up…
BASRA, Iraq: Iraq is close to reaching a deal with oil majors BP and Eni for an export pipeline project that was initially planned as part of a mega-deal with US energy giant ExxonMobil, according to five senior Iraqi oil officials involved in the negotiations.Under the proposed $400 million agreement, British company BP and Italy’s…
BEIJING: Japan’s economy grew much faster than expected in April-June to mark the third straight quarter of expansion, as robust private consumption and business investment offset the hit to exports from cooling global demand. The data offers some relief for the Bank of Japan, which is under pressure to follow other central banks and ramp up…
BEIRUT: A Canadian man has been freed after being held for eight months by the Damascus authorities in war-torn Syria, the former detainee and Lebanon’s security chief said Friday. British Columbia native Kristian Lee Baxter on Friday appeared at a televised press conference in Lebanon’s capital Beirut after his release. “I thought I would be…
BEIRUT: A Canadian man has been freed after being held for eight months by the Damascus authorities in war-torn Syria, the former detainee and Lebanon’s security chief said Friday. British Columbia native Kristian Lee Baxter on Friday appeared at a televised press conference in Lebanon’s capital Beirut after his release. “I thought I would be…
Jalalabad: At a bustling outdoor market in the eastern Afghanistan city of Jalalabad, farmers tend to long-haired goats and customers choose an animal to slaughter for the upcoming Islamic festival of Eid Al-Adha. But a key question looms over preparations: is peace about to come to Afghanistan, or will four decades of war continue unabated?…
GENEVA: The World Food Programme said on Friday it is resuming food distributions next week for 850,000 people in Yemen’s capital Sanaa after a two-month halt following an agreement with Houthi authorities. The UN agency halted some aid in the Yemeni capital on June 20 out of concern that food was being diverted from vulnerable…
KSRelief calls for UN probe into ‘serious reports’ of Yemen aid agency corruption RIYADH: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) has called for a full-scale probe into “serious reports” of corruption in UN agencies delivering vital aid to war-torn Yemen.Senior KSRelief officials have demanded an urgent investigation following allegations of wrongdoing brought…
DUBAI: The Houthis said on Friday that a senior member of the Houthi family had been “assassinated,” according to the group’s Al-Masirah TV. The body of Ibrahim Badreddin al-Houthi, the brother of Houthi leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi, in a house in Sanaa. A Yemeni security source, who declined to be named, told AFP that Ibrahim al-Houthi…
