KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 16 — After receiving rebuke from the medical fraternity over its proposal to amputate the limbs of criminals convicted under hudud, Kelantan is now mulling the use of the guillotine – an 18th century contraption used during…
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Muslims discovered the Americas more than three centuries before Christopher Columbus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. He made the claim during a conference of Latin American Muslim leaders in Istanbul, pointing to a diary entry in which Columbus…
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SINGAPORE: A People’s Association event celebrating senior citizens in the Aljunied Cluster, comprising Aljunied GRC and Hougang SMC, was held on Saturday (Nov 15) evening. Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob graced the event, alongside former PAP leaders Lim Boon Heng…
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Mads Gilbert, an outspoken Norwegian doctor and activist who treated patients at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital during Israel’s assault on the Palestinian territory this summer, has been denied access to Gaza “indefinitely” by Israeli authorities. Gilbert told Al Jazeera on Friday…
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Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said at the East Asia Summit on Thursday that more should be done to prevent religious extremism in the region especially given the threat posed by ISIS. PM Lee said that there is no purely…
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