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The United Arab Emirates has announced a major overhaul of its Islamic personal laws by broadening personal ‘freedoms’ allowing unmarried couples to cohabitate, loosening alcohol restrictions, and criminalising so-called “honour killings”.
Arab trade groups have started to remove French products from their shelves in protest against the insulting statements against Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam)
Sudan and Israel have agreed to normalise relations in a deal brokered with the help of the US, making Sudan the third Arab country to normalise ties with the Zionist entity.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged Saudi Arabia to consider normalising relations with ‘Israel’, joining Bahrain and the UAE who both signed the ‘peace agreement’.
This year marks three years since Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered. The journalist that entered the Saudi consulate and was never to be seen again.
Azerbaijan has accused its neighbouring country Armenia of attacking civilian settlements in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but occupied by Armenian forces since 1993.
First general election in 15 years set in Palestine for 2021 after Hamas and Fatah reach unprecedented agreement.
Reports suggest that Sudanese leaders are discussing a ‘possible’ deal with Israel as delegation travels to discuss US ‘terror’ list removal, according to state media.
Algeria and Qatar oppose any agreement to normalise relations with Israel and join widespread condemnation across the Muslim world.
The BDS movement has urged the boycott of Israeli-Arab blogger attempting to use his online platform to normalise Arab nations supporting “Israel”