LONDON – Gohir Khan, who was found guilty of attempting to assassinate the Pakistani blogger Ahmad Waqass Goraya, gets life sentence by a London court on Friday. Reports in international media said Khan will serve 13 years before he is eligible to apply for parole. The days served in custody ...

JAKARTA – The highest Muslim council of Indonesia has called for a review of the guidelines on the use of loudspeakers at mosques. The move comes after concerns and complaints from members of the public in the world's largest Muslim-majority country. The vast Indonesian archipelago, where ...

PARIS — Some 216,000 children and teenagers may have been victims of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in France since 1950s, says an investigative commission report released on Tuesday. If victims in other institutions run by the Church are included, the total number may be 330,000, says ...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has won widespread praise for her empathetic nature as she criticised a planned movie about her response to the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks. Labelled as poorly timed and focussed on the wrong subject, the US-backed film They Are Us has sparked outrage ...

KARACHI – Pakistan Peoples Party stalwart Syed Khurshid Shah and his son Syed Zeerak Ahmed Shah have contracted coronavirus on Sunday. Reports in local media suggest that the Member of the National Assembly has felt mild symptoms after which he was diagnosed with the novel virus. Shah had ...