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Saudi Arabia has approved using the Gregorian calendar in all official dealings amid growing openness to the outside world. The approval was made on Tuesday at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammad bin Salman. The Council of Ministers agreed to calculate all duration in official procedures and transactions on the basis of the Gregorian calendar. Exceptions are

Mohamed Abu Al-Qumsan, a broadcast engineer with Al Jazeera’s bureau in Gaza, has lost 19 family members, including his father and two sisters, in Israeli air raids on the Jabalia refugee camp. In a statement on Tuesday, Al Jazeera denounced what it called a “massacre” and an “unforgivable act” by Israeli forces. “Al Jazeera vehemently condemns the heinous and indiscriminate Israeli bombing that

La Paz, Nov 1: Bolivia has announced that it has broken diplomatic ties with Israel because of its attacks on the Gaza Strip, while neighbors Colombia and Chile recalled their ambassadors to the Zionist regime country for consultations. The three South American nations lambasted Israel's attacks on Gaza and condemned the deaths of Palestinian civilians. Bolivia "decided to break diplomatic

The director of the New York office of the UN high commissioner for human rights has left his post, protesting that the UN is “failing” in its duty to prevent what he categorizes as genocide of Palestinian civilians in Gaza under Israeli bombardment and citing the US, UK and much of Europe as “wholly complicit in the horrific assault”. Craig Mokhiber wrote on 28 October to the UN high commissioner

At least 400 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed and injured after Israeli airstrikes hit the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, amid the regime’s ongoing bombing campaign against the besieged territory. Gaza’s health ministry announced the death toll on Tuesday. The Palestinian interior ministry also said the strikes had left 400 dead or wounded in total. Iyad al-Bazum

The Israeli military says it attacked about 300 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, as the regime’s brutal aggression against the besieged enclave rages on. In a statement released on Tuesday, October 31, the Israeli army claimed that the targets included anti-tank guided missile and rocket launch positions, as well as tunnel entrances and military compounds belonging to the

Bengaluru: The chief minister Siddaramaiah-led Karnataka government has announced the list of Kannada Rajyotsava Award winners for the year 2023. Former journalist Dinesh Amin Mattu and philanthropist Charmadi Hasanabba are among the 68 personalities who will be awarded Rajyotsava Award on November 1 as the state is celebrating 50 years of its naming. Muslim Educational Institutions Federation

Mangaluru: Highland Islamic Forum (HIF India) on Friday 27th October, honoured motivational speaker Munawar Zama with the HIF Global Youth Icon Award here at the TMA Pai Hall in the city. Munawar Zama was in the city to deliver a talk for youths and parents organised by HIF India. The recognition was presented by UT Khader, Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, after Zama’s address to

At least seven Opposition Members of Parliament said on October 31, 2023, that they received a warning from Apple that “State-sponsored attackers may be targeting” their iPhones. Shiv Sena (Uddhav faction) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, Trinamool Congress’ Mahua Moitra, Congress’ Pawan Khera and Shashi Tharoor, CPI(M) Sitaram Yechury, AAP’s Raghav Chadda and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi are among those

The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has released a video that shows three hostages held in the besieged Gaza Strip, drawing condemnation from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The video was released on Monday by the armed wing of Hamas, the Qassam Brigades. The women who appear in the video are likely to have done so under duress. In the video clip, three women are sitting side by side