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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 23:47 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436  New York (IINA) - Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad must leave office or face being removed by force, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said, rejecting Russia’s bid to build support for its ally. |
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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 23:46 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436  Paris (IINA) - French authorities have launched a criminal probe of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime for alleged war crimes committed between 2011 and 2013, AFP reported quoting well informed sources. |
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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 23:43 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436  Makkah (IINA) - Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman attended funeral prayer of Prince Nawaf bin Abdul Aziz at the Grand Mosque in Makkah after Isha prayers on Wednesday. His body was buried at Al-Adl Cemetery in Makkah. |
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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 23:35 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436 
(Image from DPA) New York, (IINA) - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Britain, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and the United states have pledged on Tuesday a total of $1.8 billion for the UN agencies dealing with migrants who were displaced by the conflicts in Syria and other parts of the region, DPA reported. |
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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 18:04 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436 
(Image from Shutterstock) Washington, (IINA) - Researchers have developed a new test that can detect nearly any known virus that infects humans and animals, which offers the potential of diagnosing infections when doctors don’t know what to look for, UPI reported. |
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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 16:31 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436 
(All images from ATSH) Tirana, (IINA) - The Albanian Municipal Council of Tirana has recently approved naming the road in front of the Kuwaiti Embassy in Tirana “Kuwait Street” and it held the inauguration ceremony on Tuesday, Albanian Telegraphic Agency reported. |
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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 16:28 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436  Riyadh, (IINA) - Saudi Arabia is organizing its first International Mining and Minerals Conference and exhibition, which aims to boost a sector that offers $19 billion worth of opportunities and projects, Saudi Gazette reported. |
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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 16:23 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436  New York (IINA) – The Arab League Council held a consultative meeting at the level of the foreign ministers at the UN headquarters in New York, under the chairmanship of Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, chairman of the current session of the Council, and the participation of Secretary General of the League Dr Nabil Elaraby. |
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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 16:23 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436  Nouakchott (IINA) – The African Union (AU) announced on Tuesday the cancellation of its decision to suspend Burkina Faso. |
Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 14:45 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436
New Delhi (IINA) - A 58-year-old Muslim villager called Iqlakh was killed by a mob in Greater Noida's Bisada village, not far from New Delhi, India’s capital, on Monday night following rumors of cow slaughter in his house, according to media reports. Danish, the victim’s 21-year-old son, was critically injured in the attack and is on ventilator support in Kailash Hospital, Noida, the police confirmed.
As tension gripped the village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and spread to nearby areas, another mob went on the rampage on Tuesday morning in Ooncha Amirpur - barely 5km from Bisada - demanding death penalty for those involved in cow slaughter. The mob clashed with the police after six people were arrested for the murder. Kiran S, SSP, Gautam Budh Nagar said, "Around 800 armed forces, including a battalion of Provincial Armed Constabulary and police from Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr and Hapur, have been deployed in the village and the areas around it."
Superintendent of police (rural) Sanjay Singh said Iqlakh's body has been handed over to his family after an autopsy, the report of which suggested that he died due to severe blood loss and haemmorage. He also said an FIR had been filed against 10 people, six of whom were nabbed and put behind bars. They have been identified as Rupender, Vivek, Sree Om, Sandeep, Saurabh and Gaurav, all in their late 20s. "All accused are from Bisada," Singh said. "They have confessed. We recovered some meat from their possession. The accused claimed it was beef that they recovered from the deceased's home. It has come to our knowledge that the mob held a meeting in a temple in the middle of the village, where they decided to teach the deceased a lesson for slaughtering cows. The mob then rushed to the victim's home and attacked the family," he added.
Family members of Iqlakh, the murdered Bisada villager, denied slaughtering any cow in their small house and claimed the story was cooked up to target them. They also claimed neither the cops reached on time nor their neighbors came to their rescue. Iqlakh lived there with his 70-year-old mother Asgari, 52-year-old wife Ikraman, younger son Danish (21) and daughter Sahista (16). His elder son Sartaz works with the Indian Air Force and is currently posted in Chennai. Danish suffered serious injuries in the attack. "Hundreds of people gathered in front of our house on Monday night and started abusing us," Times of India newspaper reported quoting Asgari. "A heated argument followed for 10 minutes after which the agitators turned violent and broke open the main gate. They misbehaved with my daughter-in-law and grand-daughter. They did not even spare me. I had locked myself in the washroom but they broke open the washroom door and thrashed me." Asgari added, "The attack continued for nearly half an hour, but no one came to our rescue. They brutally thrashed my son and grandson. They, then dragged my son's body to the road and fled after dumping it there."
The family members alleged that a call from the loudspeaker mounted on a village temple incited the mob to attack their house. “After dinner, my father went to sleep in his room on the first floor. We heard the announcement from the village temple in our vicinity calling the villagers to assemble at our house as he had slaughtered a calf. At 10:30pm, more than 100 people armed with sticks and bricks surrounded my house. They abused and broke the main gate to enter our house. They mercilessly thrashed my brother who was studying on the ground floor and damaged the furniture. Thereafter, they went upstairs and attacked my father,” Mehraaj, daughter of the victim told Hindustan Times.
The mob also misbehaved with the women in the house, Mehraaj added. Mehraaj said the mob dragged her father to the main road of the village. “They tore my father’s clothes. We pleaded with them to leave him but they did not listen. They kept hitting on my father’s head and chest with stones and sticks till he died. The mob dispersed after they heard the siren of the police vehicles,” she said. She did not know who informed the police but the area police officials said that they got a phone call about the attack.
Senior citizens of the village say Ikhlaq’s family has been living in the village for the past 70 years and they had a good reputation among the villagers. He was a blacksmith and used to help everyone in the village that has never witnessed any communal tension in the past. “He was very happy when his elder son Sartaj got recruited in Indian Air Force around two years ago. His younger son Danish was studying in a college and was preparing for competitive exams for a government job. The incident is very unfortunate for the entire village,” said Dharam Pal, a villager.
The Bisada village falls under Dadri tehsil in Greater Noida. It has a population of 9,000 people, most of whom belong to the Thakur community. The village has only two houses belonging to Muslims. Ikhlaq’s neighbours have been missing since the incident and have abandoned the village. The victim’s cousin Toufiq Khan, who managed to flee from the spot after the mob attack told police that the mob tried to beat him as well.
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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 13:19 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436 
Photo: Anadolu Agency Simferopol (IINA) – Turkey is going to fully finance the construction of Crimea’s largest mosque, Crimean Grand Mufti Emir Ali Ablayev said on Sunday. |
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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 13:13 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436 
(Image from Al-Khaleej online) Rabat, (IINA) - The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) condemned on Tuesday the racist statements against French Muslims made by the ex-French minister and a member of the European Parliament Nadine Morano. |
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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 13:00 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436 
Google image Washington (IINA) – The United States will open “lines of communication” with Russia to avoid “misjudgment and miscalculation” as a US-led coalition conducts strikes against ISIS in Syria while Moscow is assisting government forces in their fight against the terror group, Russia Today (RT) reported. |
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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 12:57 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436 
Photo: UN News Center New York (IINA) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stressed on Tuesday that addressing the growing threat posed by violent extremist groups, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known Daesh, goes to the heart of the mission of the United Nations and requires a unified response, UN News Center reported. |
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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 12:49 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436  Khartoum (IINA) – The Sudanese government and the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) signed two agreements on Tuesday to finance imports of petroleum products worth $100 million and fertilizers for $71 million, Sudan Tribune reported. |
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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 12:25 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436  Rabat (IINA) – Director General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri called for not politically exploiting the painful stampede incident that occurred in Mina on the first day of Eid al-Adha, into which the competent Saudi authorities are conducting extensive investigations. |
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Wednesday 30 Sep 2015 - 11:41 Makkah mean time-17-12-1436 
(Image from FNA) Ramallah, (IINA) - The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Committee said that Israel's military prosecution appealed on Tuesday a court’s decision to release on bail a young detainee Essa Abdel Mutee in light of his deteriorating health condition, WAFA reported. |
New York, (IINA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wrote an article for Huffington Post yesterday anticipating the raising of Palestine’s flag at the UN headquarters in New York.
Abbas wrote about the event of raising Palestine’s flag, saying that the decision to raise the flag enhanced the sense of pride Palestinians have. It also noted that the vote to raise the flag confirmed that Palestinians are not the only people fighting for their quest for freedom.
The following is the full text of the article.
Tomorrow (Today), the Palestinian flag will be raised for the first time at the United Nations headquarters in New York and at other U.N. offices around the world. The sense of pride among the Palestinian people was overwhelming the day the world voted in favor of this landmark initiative. I am certain that the day our flag rises among the flags of the community of nations will also be a most emotional and proud day.
The General Assembly's vote confirmed again that we, the people of Palestine, are not alone in our quest for freedom, fulfillment of our rights and an end to decades of Israeli occupation and oppression. On September 30, we will raise our flag in a peaceful gesture that will remind all that justice and independence is ultimately possible. To get to this destination, we need the support of our friends around the world and the leadership of the U.N.
As the U.N. this year marks its 70th anniversary, its longest-standing, unresolved issue is the question of Palestine. For more than 68 years, my people have been denied their rights and denied freedom. In 1948, we were cast out of our places of birth and those of our ancestors; our homes and heritage were destroyed; we were expelled or fled into exile to what were to be temporary camps until the conflict and question of Palestinian statehood were resolved.
Today, Palestinians remain in exile, with over five million refugees denied their right to return. An illegal, oppressive Israeli occupation denies basic human rights, including the right of people to self-determination and freedom -- a foundational principle of the U.N. But the Palestinian people have not given up hope and have not given up their rightful and just quest to live in independence and peace in our homeland.
Hope is the power that helps my people endure and overcome the horrors we have too often faced. Many have compared living in Palestine to apartheid. But our situation is even more dire because Israel, the occupying power, is not only executing a system of segregation and subjugation; it persists with the blatant ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people from their land. While the Israeli government pays lip service to the two-state solution internationally, domestically it employs policies aimed at destroying what's left of Palestine. Israel demolishes our homes, swallows up our land and works at breaking the spirit and will of our people.
In Bethlehem, Israeli checkpoints and an illegal annexation wall cages in people, depriving them of their rights, livelihoods and access to their land. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to suffer the wounds of last year's barbaric war as Israel's cruel blockade imprisons the entire population and renders the Strip uninhabitable. In Occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli forces and leaders aid extremist attacks and religious zealots' attempts to assert control over Al Aqsa Mosque and ignite a religious conflict. Palestine refugees across the region are suffering repeated displacement, dispossession and trauma, denied the ability to return home.
Countless events every single day illustrate the ways in which Israel's illegal occupation devastates Palestine. But few recent events resonated with the world, like the arson attack on the Dawabsheh family home. A group of Israeli terrorist settlers smashed the windows of the Dawabsheh home and threw Molotov cocktails inside, immediately burning to death an 18-month-old baby, Ali. Both of Ali's parents have since perished due to third degree burns. More than a month later, their now-orphaned 4-year-old son remains in the hospital. The Israeli government has attempted to disassociate itself from the attack, but the truth is that its pervasive and systematic colonization of Palestine with settlements, messages of intolerance, flouting of international law and culture of impunity not only facilitated that attack but continue to encourage others like it.
Israel's pursuit of reckless policies obstructs any international progress for the two-state solution. I recall the high hopes I felt in 1993 when the Oslo Accords were signed and a five-year deadline set to achieve an end to the occupation and peace and security between the two states, the State of Palestine and Israel. That was 22 years ago. Since then, Israel has failed to negotiate in good faith while entrenching its illegal occupation. Israel is not dedicated to the international community's values of freedom, justice and peace -- let alone the two-state solution and the longstanding parameters underpinning it. It has trampled the Oslo Accords and with it the peace process.
As world leaders gather in New York to commemorate the U.N.'s 70th anniversary, these same leaders must also reflect on the U.N.'s failures. Palestine has languished on the U.N. agenda since the organization's inception. This persistent neglect has cost too many lives, dampened hope, undermined international law and stained the reputation of the U.N. World leaders must find the political will to uphold the rule of law, respect human rights and make good on the commitments they collectively made to the Palestinian people over decades. The U.N. must give my people more than hope.
A peaceful, fair and just solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict exists. But the peace process must be multilateral. The same pattern of negotiations imposed for years will not work because Israel is the occupying power. Israel controls our territory, natural resources, economic affairs and our daily lives, violating every fundamental human right of the Palestinian people. We cannot directly negotiate with a power that has this level of control and exhibits such contempt for the rights and existence of our people.
That is why a collective, multilateral peace process is necessary. Such processes have made significant progress in difficult negotiations for the Balkans, Libya and Iran. They should be attempted to decisively end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict after all these years of futile attempts to achieve peace.
On the vote to raise our flag at the U.N., the international community demonstrated its solidarity with the Palestinian people. Now it must act with urgency to seize the momentum from this symbolic gesture and provide a clear plan to end the illegal Israeli occupation, uphold human rights and achieve justice. It is time to finally achieve the independence of the State of Palestine, peacefully resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict -- the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict -- as was promised long ago.
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 21:47 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436
Berlin (IINA) - When the flood of Middle Eastern refugees arriving in Europe finally ebbs and asylum-seekers settle down in their new homes, Germany could unexpectedly find itself housing the continent’s largest Muslim minority, Reuters reported.
The arrival of so many Syrians fleeing their country’s brutal civil war is bound to change the face of Islam in Germany, which until now has been dominated by the Turks who first came as so-called “guest workers” in the 1960s. While refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq and other Muslim countries are also arriving, the Syrians make up the largest single contingent — estimated at about 45 percent — and have the best chances of being granted political asylum here.
The longer-term impact on Germany, which unlike Britain or France has no tradition of taking in immigrants from former colonies, is unclear. Many are still struggling through problems all refugees face such as learning the language and getting a job. The number of those yet to follow them is also unknown. Some trends are emerging, though, and Germans familiar with the Muslim minority see reasons for both hope and concern. The first change is simply in the numbers.
“We could suddenly have five million Muslims,” said Thomas Volk, an Islam expert at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a think tank associated with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. France now has Europe’s largest Muslim minority with five million, followed by Germany with about four million. But the French figure is an estimate several experts say is too high. Germany expects 800,000 refugees this year, most of them Muslims, and “this trend will continue,” Volk told Reuters. “It will not stop abruptly on Jan. 1, 2016.” In addition, most are young adult men, so the numbers will rise further when those who settle here start families.
Merkel’s critics have raised security concerns about letting in so many unchecked refugees, but German security officials say they have not found any proof that jihadists are among them. A broader question is what kind of Muslims will be joining a minority dominated by the local Turkish community, which makes up two-thirds of the German Muslim population. Many Turkish immigrants were poor workers from rural areas who struggled to integrate into German society. Turkey has reinforced the diaspora’s link to their homeland by building mosques and sending imams, many of whom speak no German.
Lamya Kaddor, a German-born academic of Syrian descent, said Islam in mostly Sunni Muslim Syria was “conservative and open.” “This is because of the religious composition of the country,” she said in an interview. “There are many different Christians, Druze, Alawites and some Shiites. Religion was never in the foreground. They’re very tolerant.” Being accustomed to life in a multi-faith society, Syrians could integrate more easily into German society, Kaddor said. Syria also has no religious institution like Turkey’s well-funded Diyanet that oversees many Turkish mosques in Germany.
While individual Syrians may integrate more easily, their collective presence could further splinter a Muslim minority that already is unable to speak in public as a group. Arabs are a tiny minority among German Muslims now but their total could rise to about one-fifth of the overall community, a change that could exacerbate rivalries among Muslim leaders. “Arabic-influenced Islam will become more visible and German Islam more diverse,” said Aiman Mazyek, the son of a Syrian father and German mother who is chairman of the small Central Council of Muslims representing mostly non-Turkish Muslims.
A lively speaker in fluent German, Mazyek has already irritated some Turkish German leaders by outshining them in public and appearing as an unofficial spokesman for Muslims here. Rivalries like this have stymied efforts to get Germany’s four main Muslim associations to work together. “Let’s face it — Arabs have a superiority complex,” said a German analyst who asked not to be named. “They think they know Islam better because they can read the Qur'an in their language.”
Birol Ucan, spokesman for the large Omar Ibn Al-Khattab mosque in the Berlin’s multicultural Kreuzberg district, said some Syrians had turned up at his and other mostly Arabic-speaking mosques in recent months, but not that many yet. “They’re still busy with refugee problems like finding shelter and getting their papers in order,” he said. In general, the Syrians are better educated than other migrants coming here and have better prospects of integrating. “Syrians have a reputation for being hard workers,” Ucan said. “They’re not classic guest workers,” Kaddor observed. “They’re middle class, even upper class — they’re always the first who can flee.” The most urgent task now, she said, is to provide them with German lessons and jobs so they can start a new life rather than languish in refugee shelters.
Ahmad Al-Kurdi, a 26-year-old sports instructor from Hama, lives up to the image Syrians have here. In the 10 months since he arrived, he has learned German well and will soon begin studying at a Berlin university for a master’s degree. “Life here is super,” he said in the flat he shares with another refugee. “But I want to go back — Syria is my country,” he added, without knowing when that might be possible.
How Germany will accept the changing face of Islam on its soil is also unclear. Volk said the current public welcome for the refugees could morph into a more divisive debate about Merkel’s policies next year when four federal states hold elections. Last winter, before it took the moral high ground in the refugee crisis, Germany saw a wave of anti-Muslim rallies led by a right-wing movement called PEGIDA, an acronym for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West. Merkel condemned that movement as racists “with hatred in their hearts.”
Recalling that anti-immigrant parties won seats in several state legislatures in the 1990s after an earlier refugee wave, Volk said Merkel’s CDU had to start a broad public debate to counter prejudices against the Muslims. “We must be careful. The populists could make (the refugees) into their issue,” he said.
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 21:45 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436  Ramallah (IINA) - Clashes have erupted across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as a result of ongoing confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli forces at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 21:44 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436  Sana’a (IINA) - Pro-government forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition on Monday captured “balaq” mountain and “Marbat Al-Dam" two of the Houthi rebel’s remaining strongholds in Yemen’s Marib Province, opening the path to a key highway leading to Sana’a, Al Arabiya News reported. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 21:26 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436  Mogadishu (IINA) – The United Arab Emirates sent on Monday afternoon an air ambulance to transport the wounded in the blast at a security checkpoint near the gate of Somalia's presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu, which killed at least 10 people and injured several others on September 21. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 18:07 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436  Rome, (IINA) - The International Organization for Migration has issued a report on Tuesday saying that some 522,000 migrants have made the dangerous crossing across the Mediterranean so far this year, SPA reported. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 18:06 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436  Paris, (IINA) - Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA) has organized an Islamic Calligraphy exhibition in celebration of the Third Edition of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Day at UNESCO in Paris. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 17:51 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436 
(AFP image) Geneva, (IINA) - Saudi Arabia called on UN Human Rights Council, on Monday, to declare Israeli settler groups as terrorist organizations, Saudi Gazette reported. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 17:49 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436 
(Saudi Gazette Image) Makkah, (IINA) - A group of 2,500 Keralites has set an example of voluntary work when they helped paramedics in providing healthcare services to the pilgrims injured in the Mina’s stampede as well as other work such as guiding lost pilgrims and offering free food, Saudi Gazette reported citing Al-Hayat Daily. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 17:45 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436 
Photo: BBC News site London (IINA) – Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of arson after a large fire engulfed part of a south London mosque which is said to be the largest in Western Europe, according to The Guardian. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 13:54 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436 
Image: Reuters Aden (IINA) – Yemen's 150,000 barrel-per-day Aden refinery resumed operations on Tuesday after being shut for more than five months as the conflict in the country worsened, an industry source at the refinery told Reuters. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 13:32 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436 
President Obama (Google image) New York (IINA) – US President Barack Obama said on Monday the international community should have done more to avoid a leadership vacuum in Libya, which has been in disarray since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi four years ago. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 13:29 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436 
Photo: BNA New York (IINA) – Bahrain's Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa signed with his Indonesian counterpart Retno Lestari Marsudi a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to boost political consultation on the sidelines of the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 13:15 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436 
Google image New York (IINA) – The leaders of Venezuela and Guyana agreed on the return of their ambassadors to the respective capitals and expressed willingness to resolve the question of sovereignty over the Essequibo region, news agencies reported. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 13:02 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436 
(Image from NAN) Abuja, (IINA) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari reiterated on Monday his government's pledge to lead African countries in fighting corruption, NAN reported. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 12:51 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436 
Dr Ahmed Al-Tayeb (Google image) Cairo (IINA) – The Sheikh of Al-Azhar Dr Ahmed Al-Tayeb strongly denounced an exhibition of blasphemous cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), under the name "Stop the Islamization of Denmark", in the Danish capital of Copenhagen. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 12:05 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436 
(Image from Express UK) Kilis, (IINA) - The Turkish authorities have arrested 22 foreigners under the suspicion of belonging to the terrorist group ISIS. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 12:03 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436  New York, (IINA) - The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon thanked on Monday the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu for his country’s efforts in helping refugees fleeing from war and persecution, Anadolu Agency reported. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 12:01 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436 
PM Najib Razak (Google image) New York (IINA) – Malaysia has pledged to deploy 380 police officers and personnel to the United Nations peacekeeping mission, BERNAMA reported. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 11:59 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436 
President Putin (Photo: from Internet) New York (IINA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia will shortly convene a ministerial meeting of the UN Security Council to carry out a comprehensive analysis of threats in the Middle East, Russia Today (RT) reported. |
Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 11:31 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436
Riyadh (IINA) – Two terrorists were killed and three others arrested during four simultaneous security operations in Riyadh and Dammam on Sunday, Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, security spokesman at the Ministry of Interior, announced on Monday.
The ministry confirmed that the cell was linked to Yousaf Al-Suleiman, the suicide bomber who blew himself up at the mosque in the compound of the Special Emergency Forces Center in Abha that killed 15 people, including 12 soldiers, on Aug. 6. Al-Turki said that the cell had been planning to carry out terrorist attack in the Kingdom and preparations were in an advanced stage. The security forces carried out raids on three hideouts in Riyadh and one in Dammam. Abdul Aziz Bin Zaid Al-Shamri, a wanted terrorist, was killed in a security operation at a house in Badr district in Dammam. He was killed in an exchange of fire with the security forces. Two terror suspects — Muhannid Bin Muhammad Al-Otaibi and Fahd Bin Falah Al-Harbi — were arrested from the hideout.
Aqeel Bin Omaish Al-Mutairi, who was on the list of 85 wanted terrorists published by the ministry earlier, was killed in a raid on a residential apartment in Al-Falah district in Riyadh. He fired at the security forces and in the ensuing exchange of gunfire Al-Mutairi was killed. Several years ago, Al-Mutairi was brought back to the Kingdom from Iraq and was under detention for three years. He was released after undergoing ministry’s counseling and rehabilitation program. He then traveled to Yemen and later infiltrated into the Kingdom to carry out the planned attack. During the third operation at a residential villa in Al-Andalus district, wanted terrorist Faisal Bin Hamid Al-Ghamdi surrendered. The security forces also raided a residential annex in Al-Sulai district, which was a hideout for cell members. It was found that the annex was a fortified facility inside a residential building.
Al-Turki said the arrested terrorist Al-Harbi rented the house in Riyadh’s Monasiyah district from where the security officials arrested two terror suspects on Sept. 17. The suspects — Ahmed Saeed Jabir Al-Zahrani, 21, and Mohammed Saeed Jabir Al-Zahrani, 19 — were arrested following a gun battle during which the suspects threw a grenade at the officers. In a similar operation carried out at that time, the security officials raided a rest house in Darma region, about 60 km west of Riyadh. It was found that the rest house was turned into a hideout to make explosives. From the hideout, the officers seized huge cache of weapons and money, including three machine guns, 36 bullet magazine holders, 2,848 rounds of machine gun ammunition, three handguns, 10 handgun magazines, five grenades, currencies amounting to SR402,101 and $5,500, in addition to mobile phones and laptops. The arrest of the two suspects led to further investigation that resulted in Sunday’s raid, Al-Turki said.
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 10:31 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436 
Dr Saeb Erekat (Google image) New York (IINA) – Secretary General of the PLO Executive Committee Dr Saeb Erekat expressed great disappointment in US President Barack Obama for completely ignoring the Palestinian issue during his speech at the UN General Assembly on Monday. |
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Tuesday 29 Sep 2015 - 10:12 Makkah mean time-16-12-1436  New York (IINA) – Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Ameen Madani held a bilateral meeting with EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Sunday. |
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Monday 28 Sep 2015 - 21:41 Makkah mean time-15-12-1436  Washington (IINA) - NASA announced on Monday that liquid saltwater exists on the surface of Mars - a discovery that scientists say indicates the "potential" for life on the planet, according to media reports. |
