Fri 23 May 2025: Communities – predominantly Muslim – displaced. A large-scale demolition drive undertaken by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, has targeted approximately 7,000 properties, predominantly Muslim homes, situated near Chandola Talab. The operation, reported to have commenced on Tuesday, has resulted in the displacement of thousands of individuals, leaving them without shelter. […]
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Fri 23 May 2025: The $175bn ambitious space proposal aims to counter aerial threats but Washington’s adversary China says it would prompt an arms race. United States President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he has selected a $175bn design for the multilayered Golden Dome missile defence programme aimed at countering aerial threats “even if they are […]
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Fri 23 May 2025: The price of Bitcoin on Thursday surpassed the $110,000 threshold for the first time in history after the recent advancement of a key stablecoin bill in the US Senate. The value of the global cryptocurrency market, including Bitcoin, reached $2.2 trillion Thursday, according to data from Coinmarketcap. The price of Bitcoin, […]
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Thu 22 May 2025: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned that his country will “forcefully respond” to any Israeli attack after CNN reported that the Israeli military could be preparing strikes. “Iran strongly warns against any adventurism by the Zionist regime of Israel and will decisively respond to any threat or unlawful act by […]
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Thu 22 May 2025: US President Donald Trump, during a phone call with European leaders on Monday, said Russian President Vladimir Putin is not ready to end the war in Ukraine as he believes he is winning, according to three Wall Street Journal sources who were familiar with the conversation. The newspaper said the “acknowledgment was what European leaders had long believed about Putin—but […]
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Thu 22 May 2025: WhatsApp is testing a new feature that will limit the number of broadcast messages users can send per month to curb spam and promote more thoughtful use of the broadcast feature. The new feature is currently available for beta testers via the latest WhatsApp beta for Android 2.25.14.15 update, which is […]
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Thu 22 May 2025: Relentless downpours battered eastern Australia for a second day on Thursday, with overflowing rivers flooding roads and isolating nearly 50,000 people. In Taree, 300 km north of Sydney, police discovered a 63-year-old man’s body in a flooded home, and another body, likely a missing man in his 30s, was found in […]
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Thu 22 May 2025: China has pledged $500 million in financial support to the World Health Organization (WHO) over the next five years, the Chinese mission to the UN in Geneva said Tuesday in a statement shared with Anadolu. The funding for the UN agency will include “an increase in the assessed contribution, a certain […]
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Thu 22 May 2025: The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group and humanitarian aid foundation Islamic Relief’s US branch Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA) have partnered to support the Global Islamic Fund for Refugees (GIFR). As part of the IsDB’s annual meeting in the Algerian capital Algiers, the two institutions signed an agreement Wednesday to provide sustainable […]
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Thu 22 May 2025: Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy were fatally shot outside the Capital Jewish Museum in downtown Washington, DC late Wednesday, US authorities have confirmed. The victims, identified by the Israeli Foreign Ministry as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, were shot at close range as they exited an event hosted […]
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