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The Taliban’s supreme leader said Sunday there is “no need” for Western laws in Afghanistan, noting that democracy is dead as long as sharia laws are in place.Hibatullah Akhundzada was speaking during a sermon marking Eid al-Fitr, an Islamic holiday, at the Eidgah Mosque in the southern city of Kandahar.”There…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reportedly called for the destruction of Israel during Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Çamlıca Mosque in Istanbul on Sunday.The Jerusalem Post reported that Erdoğan said “May Allah, for the sake of his name ‘Al-Qahhar,’ destroy and devastate Zionist Israel.” His call for the annihilation of…
Greenland’s prime minister said Sunday that the U.S. “will not get” the resource-rich island in the Atlantic.President Donald Trump wants to annex the self-governing territory of Denmark, a NATO ally of the United States, claiming it is needed for national security purposes.”President Trump says that the United States ‘will get…
French politician Marine Le Pen and eight other members of her right-wing party were found guilty of embezzling public funds on Monday, and she herself was barred from running for public office.The French court did not immediately announce how long Le Penn will be ineligible for office, and she stormed…
The Israeli military issued evacuation orders on Monday for most of Rafah and suggested it may soon launch another ground operation in the city after its ceasefire with Hamas ended.The evacuation orders appeared to cover almost all the city and nearby areas. The military ordered civilians to head to Mawasi,…
Pope Francis publicly acknowledged that this Lenten season is a time of healing for his soul and body.On Sunday, the Vatican released the text of Francis’ prepared Sunday Angelus prayer. It is the seventh straight Sunday that his illness has prevented him from delivering the blessing from a window over…
JERUSALEM—President Donald Trump’s overtures via a letter to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, to jump-start talks on dismantling Tehran’s illicit nuclear weapons program, were met with rejection by the theocratic state on Sunday, following Trump’s latest threat to the regime.Trump told NBC on Saturday that “If…
Denmark hit back at the Trump administration’s “tone” regarding Greenland on Friday, saying “this is not how you speak to your close allies.”Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen released the message in a recorded video just hours after Vice President JD Vance visited an American military base in Greenland, where…
Two people were killed and 35 others were injured after a Russian drone attack struck a military hospital and shopping center in Ukraine late Saturday night, Ukrainian officials say.Regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov condemned the attack on Kharkiv in a statement on Sunday, saying a 67-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman…
A Holocaust survivor murdered at age 91 and a baby killed just 14 hours after birth are among the victims named in the U.K.’s October 7 Parliamentary Commission Report, the most detailed Western investigation to date into the Hamas-led attack on Israel. The 318-page report, chaired by British historian and peer…
