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The Supreme Court of Pakistan today (June 25) ordered the acquittal of an elderly Christian on death row for 23 years on a blasphemy conviction, declaring that a person of unsound mind could not be held liable for such a crime, his lawyer said. Supreme Court attorney Rana Abdul Hameed said that...

A six-year-old girl was married to a 45-year-old man in Helmand Province, local sources said, in a case that has sparked widespread condemnation after an image of the wedding circulated on social media. The ceremony took place in Marjah District, where the child’s father reportedly arranged the...

A Christian mother of five children in Pakistan was raped at gunpoint by a Muslim who had been harassing and pressuring her to convert to Islam and marry him, her husband said. The 36-year-old woman was alone in her house in Chak No. 134/16L village in Mian Channu, Khanewal District, Punjab...

As per the administration, the temple was located on encroached govt land. But the Hindus say that the temple was there for a long time with the knowledge of the administration, and it was never deemed to be illegal, with some saying it was donated by the railways. A Durga Mandir in...

Several boys of foreign origin lured victims through a gay dating app before beating and humiliating them in coordinated assaults filmed and shared as entertainment The migrant teens...

Asylum seekers have been told by police to treat women with respect and not harass them or risk being arrested. Officers have drawn up a PowerPoint presentation for asylum seekers in hotels on the key points of “UK culture” which they are told they should respect. It includes recognising that...

It was a night of heavy rainfall in Yelwata, a town in central Nigeria. On Friday June 13, over 500 Christians—many of them women and children—gathered together in temporary shelters in the town’s Market Square. Most of them had fled their homes across the region, hoping to find greater...

Iranian rights group has recorded 705 arrests on political or security charges since the start of the war with Israel Reuters in Baghdad Wed 25 Jun 2025 21.49 BST Iranian authorities are pivoting from a ceasefire with Israel to intensify an internal security crackdown across the country with...

The JNIM was founded in Mali in 2017 as an umbrella organisation assembling four extremist groups The writer is a former caretaker finance minister and served as vice-president at the World Bank Islamic extremists and their organisations...

President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb nuclear enrichment facilities in Iran surprised some. Here are the five main miscalculations the Iranian regime made that led to this point. The Iranian regime has seen its miscalculations surface in layers, like the peeling of an onion. Though no one...

Multiple frontrunners are emerging to succeed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the 86-year-old has gone into hiding during Israel and the United States’ joint military campaign against the Islamic Republic, a report said. A three-man committee appointed by Khamenei to identify...

There is a frightening trend in Hamburg’s schools: Muslim pupils are putting pressure on and harassing their non-Muslim classmates. There have been reports of girls being bullied for dressing femininely and not wearing a headscarf; others have been called ‘pig-eaters,’ and are now wary of...

City mosques have called on the UK Government to avoid fuelling the Israel-Iran war The moment a bomb struck Iran(Image: Getty Images) Birmingham mosques fearing UK military involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict have issued four demands to Sir Keir Starmer. Mosques - including Green Lane...

China condemned the US airstrikes through state media, warning Washington may be repeating past strategic mistakes. The United States’ airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities early Sunday have triggered urgent global responses, with several world leaders calling for restraint and warning of...

Wanted in China and sanctioned by the United Kingdom, tycoon She Zhijiang is languishing in a Thai jail.He’s been linked to scam sites involved in human trafficking and forced labour – but in a world-exclusive interview from behind bars, he tells 101 East he was a Chinese spy.Now, with Beijing...