Death of 75-year-old Palestinian prisoner in Israel has put issue of long-serving Palestinian prisoners under spotlight. 224 Palestinian detainees have died in Israeli prisons since 1967, 73 died due to torture

President Erdogan said the new status of Hagia Sophia - which was used as a museum for the past decades but will serve as a mosque - will be open for Turks, foreigners, Muslims, non-Muslims..

21 Palestinians shot, incl 2 children; 78 Israeli forces incursions into West Bank; 71 civilians arrested, incl 4 children; 2 houses demolished, water tanks confiscated; agricultural lands seized; Israeli setters shot civilians

7 Afghan policemen were killed, 20 injured in 2 separate attacks - in Ghazni and Kandahar claimed by Taliban.

Srebrenica genocide still "an open wound" at the heart of Europe, said EU commissioner during 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide virtual conference

Further outbreaks will emerge unless governments take active measures to prevent other zoonotic diseases from crossing into the human population, according to UN.

Indian-administered Jammu & Kashmir will allow Hindu pilgrimage to Shiva Lingam in Amarnath cave despite rising coronavirus infections and deaths.

Rohingya rights groups have denounced court-martial of 3 Myanmar army officers as “a miscarriage of justice” & of the country’s “sham attempts” to mislead international community.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson launched 'super Saturday' cautioned people to act responsibly while enjoying easing of lockdown with opening of pubs, restaurants, cafes, hotels, leisure activities

A mysterious “incident” at Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility damaged an “industrial shed” . No one was injured.

65-year-old civilian was killed by Indian forces in Jammu and Kashmir. Family said he was killed in “cold blood”, which the police rejected as “baseless” and “fabricated”.

Jewish settlers began building illegal settlements in south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank after seizing Palestinian lands.

33 bodies, incl 3 children, have been recovered by divers in Bangladesh after passenger ferry sank in Buriganga River, which flows past outskirts of Dhaka, after a collision. Dozens missing.

9 people were killed, 7 injured, as terrorists attacked Pakistani stock exchange building in Karachi.

25,000 people have been granted domicile certificates in Muslim-majority Indian administered Jammu & Kashmir under Coronavirus lockdown is beginning of disturbing demographic profile

Palestinian shot & killed by Israeli forces in Bethlehem; 22 Palestinians shot,, inc child, with live & rubber bullets, 9 houses demolished, Israeli Settler-attacks injured 4 civilians incl child in West Bank;

Besieged by a triumvirate of trauma—a pandemic, soaring unemployment, and now upheaval— America is caught in an unrelieved and seemingly irresolvable tumult.

ancashire Teaching Hospitals (LTH) announced that a local millionaire had donated thousands of new Covid-19 anti-body testing kits. The Bhailok family donated antibody testing kits costing £50,000.

First Muslim has been appointed by the Prime Minister to the Natural History Museum in London.