US president says it is ‘disgraceful’ that a list of questions that the special counsel investigating Russian election interference wants to ask him was ‘leaked’ to US media. A former lawyer for Donald Trump says Special Counsel Robert Mueller has raised the possibility the US president could be subpoenaed, as part of the Russia investigation. […]

US ambassador slams international community after Security Council holds minute silence for Palestinians killed in Gaza-Israel border clashes. Israel has been roundly criticised at the United Nations Security Council for Monday’s violence against Palestinians. All the countries on the council except for the United States condemned the violence. Al Jazeera’s James Bays reports from the […]

Yemenis suffer from limited access to food and water during the holy month, after more than three years of war. Hisham Mohamed Saleh promised to treat his children to sweets and candies after iftar – the meal Muslims eat after a long day of fasting during Ramadan – but with skyrocketing poverty and inflation rates, it’s […]

Ban follows similar restrictions on full face veils in Belgium, France, Netherlands, Bulgaria and parts of Switzerland. Denmark has joined several other European countries in banning the full-face veil worn by some Muslim women in public spaces. In a 75 to 30 vote on Thursday, Danish legislators passed the law presented by Denmark’s centre-right governing […]

Residents of Ogoniland are getting sick because of the severe contamination of their food and water sources. In the Ogoni region, 90 percent of the underground water is not fit for human use because of oil pollution. A big clean-up is under way in Ogoniland, but local communities say they have already become victims of […]

Ruling ends a long appeals process over 2012 film, Innocence of Muslims, which depicts Prophet Muhammad negatively. Egypt’s top administrative court has ordered authorities to block the video-sharing website YouTube for a month for hosting a short film that denigrated the Prophet Muhammad. The ruling on Saturday ended a years-long appeals process over the 2012 film, Innocence […]

Maryam Pougetoux was slammed by ministers who said the garment was ‘shocking’ and a manifestation of ‘political Islam’. A Muslim student at one of France’s top universities has found herself at the centre of a media storm after she appeared in a documentary wearing a headscarf. Maryam Pougetoux had appeared in the film to talk […]

Hundreds of miners are trapped underground at a site in South Africa after an accident caused a shaft exit to become blocked. Some 1,800 miners are still trapped under the earth, with emergency services currently attending the scene at the Thembelani shaft in Rustenberg, run by mining company Sibanye Stillwater. The miners became trapped at […]

ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algeria’s ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) party has elected businessman Mohamed Djemai as its new leader, state television said on Tuesday, a month after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika quit in the face of mass protests. Bouteflika’s exit has not quieted protesters, who are now demanding the dismantling of an entire ruling elite entrenched […]

Qatar receives invitation from Arab League Secretary-General to attend the summit in the Saudi capital on April 15. The ongoing Gulf crisis will not be on the agenda of the Arab League summit planned in Riyadh in mid-April, a spokesperson for the Qatari foreign ministry said. In statements to the Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu […]