Several people have been killed in a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness centre in Hamburg, with the gunman believed to be among the dead, German police said Thursday. An alarm for “extreme danger” in the area had been sounded using a catastrophe warning app, but Germany’s Federal Office for Civil Protection lifted it shortly after 3 am local time. Germany’s …
Barisan Nasional, the party that led Malaysia continuously, without disruption for 63 years, has always been seen as a more centrist and balanced political organisation The general election, GE15, held on 19 November 2022 has yielded a hung parliament, something that democracy in Malaysia is very new to. What led us here Barisan Nasional, the party that led Malaysia continuously, …
Footage of violence in a particular area of Kolkata was all over national television and social media on Monday. Former Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Swapan Dasgupta tweeted, “The rampaging mob violence… in the Kidderpore-Mominpur region of Kolkata… stems from the distorted empowerment resulting from a belief that one community is above the law.” This has been a rallying …
JERUSALEM — The head of the Islamist party in Israel’s governing coalition met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Amman on Tuesday, the latest sign of warming ties between the two countries. The Jordanian Royal Palace said in a statement that Abdullah and United Arab List lawmaker Mansour Abbas discussed “the latest developments in the Palestinian territories and ways to …
A radical Islamist party, whose tens of thousands of supporters are camping on the way to Islamabad, on Sunday gave a two-day deadline to the Pakistan government to release their party chief and expel the French ambassador or face sit-in the national capital. After talks with the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said on Sunday that the …