By Zakiya Afzani UAE | Princess to stand trial on Human Trafficking and Slavery charges in Belgium Eight Emirati princesses are standing trial in Brussels after being accused of trafficking servants into Belgium and holding them in near “slavery” conditions, Newspaper ‘ The Independent’ has reported. It has been…
By Zakiya Afzani Apple may be worth more than $1 Trillion Apple has landed a $1 trillion valuation estimate, from US broker Drexel Hamilton, as the race heats up for which company will pass the trillion dollar mark. On the day the iPhone giant’s shares surpassed $800bn for the first time, Drexel used a new…
By Musa Shabani USA | Trump to launch full and long term ground invasion of Iraq Donald Trump is pushing for a long-term deployment of US ground forces in Iraq in what could amount to a ‘repeal’ of his predecessor Barak Obama’s decision to end the American occupation of the…
By Sulayman Al-Said Lebanon calls for diaspora to return home Lebanon | Lebanese President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri signed a decree on Thursday in front of an audience of over 1’000 members of the Lebanese diaspora with the aim of encouraging them to reclaim their Lebanese citizenship…
By Zakiya Afzani Syria bans US planes from flying over it’s sovereign territory US-led coalition jets in Syria will not be allowed to fly over the so-called safe zones set to be established, said Alexander Lavrentyev, the head of Russia’s delegation to the Syrian peace talks, in comments carried by…
By Nurin Bhatt Saudi Arabia’s fashion scene just saw it’s first black model Abeer Sinder, a fourth generation Saudi Arabian who’s Great-Grand Parents originated from West-Africa is a make-up and fashion blogger and model, Saudi Arabia’s first black ‘face of fashion’. Al-Sahawat Time | Number one stop for…
By Zakiya Afzani Palestine’s Hamas recognise a Israel in new charter along 1967 occupation borders Hamas dropped its longstanding call for the end of Israel’s occupation of Palestine and instead would accept the paramiters of a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. …
By Qais Ahmed US air strike in Iraq kills three times more civilians than Daesh (ISIS) IRAQ, Mosul | At least 15 Iraqi civilians were killed today when warplanes bombed civilian houses in western Mosul, according to an Iraqi officials. “The victims were taking refuge inside a house when the plane…
By Zakiya Afzani Hamas unveils new mysterious political document Hamas plans to unveil a landmark “political document” next week in Qatar, the Palestinian Political Party announced Wednesday. According to a Hamas statement, the Party’s political chief, Khaled Meshaal, will convene a “special meeting” on May 1 “to officially unveil…
By Zakiya Afzani Palestine is to launch legal action against the UK The UK government has rejected a Palestinian request to apologise for the Balfour Declaration of 1917, a Palestinian official said on Tuesday, vowing to take legal action unless Britain backtracked. A British foreign office spokesman confirmed his…
