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Top Bahraini cleric: Qur’an burning has nothing to do with freedom of thought
Jan 25, 2023 11:02Bahrain's most prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim has strongly condemned the burning of a copy of Qur’an, Islam’s holy book, by a Swedish-Danish right-wing extremist in Stockholm, emphasizing that such sacrilegious acts and hate crimes cannot be counted as an instance of freedom of thought.
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Jordan king warns Israeli PM against violations of 'historic' status quo in al-Aqsa
Jan 25, 2023 10:52Jordan’s King Abdallah II has cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against attempts at changing the status quo of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in light of increasing Israeli desecrations of the holy place.
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2020 Beirut port explosion judge reopens case, takes aim at top officials
Jan 25, 2023 05:00Lebanon's judge Tarek Bitar, who is probing the deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion, has unexpectedly reopened the blast's case, charging eight top officials with roles in the tragedy.
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Takfiri militants planning acts of sabotage, terror attacks in Syria’s Idlib: Russian military
Jan 25, 2023 04:16Russia has warned that foreign-backed terrorists are preparing to stage a series of acts of sabotage and terror attacks in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib to implicate Syrian and Russian military forces and fabricate pretexts for military action in the war-ravaged Arab country.
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Saudi-led strikes martyr three Yemeni children, injure another: Al-Masirah TV
Jan 25, 2023 03:40Three Yemeni children have lost their lives and another one has been injured in a new wave of airstrikes by the Saudi-led military coalition on an area in the war-ravaged country’s Hodeida Province, according to local media.
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Palestinian prisoners prepare mass civil disobedience in Israeli jails
Jan 25, 2023 03:34Palestinian prisoners are set to launch mass civil disobedience in Israeli jails, which they anticipate will escalate into a full-scale hunger strike, following the regime’s decision to impose new collective punishment policies across prisons.
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Turkey summons Dutch envoy over desecration of holy Quran in anti-Islam protest
Jan 24, 2023 12:22The Turkish Foreign Ministry has summoned the Dutch ambassador to Ankara over an anti-Islam protest in The Hague, during which a copy of the Muslims' holy book, Quran, was torn apart.
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Rights group raises alarm over fate of jailed activists in Saudi Arabia
Jan 24, 2023 09:50A human rights organization has sounded the alarm over the fate of political dissidents incarcerated in Saudi jails, amid the Riyadh regime’s aggressive crackdown on any whiff of dissent.
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Situation on edge of large-scale confrontation with Israel, Islamic Jihad warns
Jan 24, 2023 09:43The Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement has censured the recurrent desecration of the sacred al-Aqsa Mosque compound and other holy places across the Israeli-Occupied Territories, warning of a serious face-off with the occupying regime.
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Yemeni freestyle wrestler withdraws from France contests to avoid facing Israeli rival
Jan 24, 2023 04:55In a show of strong solidarity with the Palestinian nation and outright rejection of normalization with the Tel Aviv regime, Yemeni freestyle wrestler Ebrahim al-Shabami has pulled out of the 2023 Grand Prix de France Henri Deglane in France to avoid facing an Israeli opponent.