Brandenburg’s Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) has banned an Islamic association outside of Berlin, saying it is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and the terrorist organization Hamas and promotes anti-Semitism. Stübgen, in a statement released on Thursday, also said the Islamic Centre Fürstenwalde al-Salam opposes the constitutional order. The Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist movement founded…
Paleontologists recently discovered a new extinct coelacanth species that highlights the role that Earth’s plate tectonics plays in evolution. Also called Latimeria, coelacanths are a deep-sea fish found off eastern Africa and Indonesia today. This new “exceptionally well-preserved” ancient and primitive coelacanth is linked to a period of heightened movement of the Earth’s crust that…
Palestinian authorities on Wednesday reported at least 14 people were killed in an attack on a United Nations facility in central Gaza. Hospital staff said 14 people were killed in the incident in the Nuseirat refugee camp. The building was a former school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Canada is drawing on Cyprus ‘ experience of accommodating the needs of women migrants and children and those fleeing regional conflict zones at a time of unprecedented global displacement, the Canadian envoy on women, peace and security said Wednesday. The North American country is one of around a dozen others that…
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says six of its employees have been killed in an Israeli air strike on one of the schools it runs in central Gaza. Unrwa said it was “the highest death toll among our staff in a single incident” since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in…
Argentina’s Congress on Wednesday upheld a veto by President Javier Milei of a bill to increase pensions, as protesters clashed with police outside the building. Thousands gathered to protest Milei’s veto, with police firing pepper spray and rubber bullets at one group — including pensioners — who angrily broke down a barrier after the vote….
