Malaysian government tabled the second reading on the reform of Act 164. The amendment to the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) (Amendment) Act 2016 has added Section 88A (1) which states that if a parent converts to Islam, the religion of their children shall remain the same unless both parents agree to the conversion of the children to Islam, and that the children can decide their own religious faiths upon…
Greece’s Aegean Isles have become de facto detention facilities – a dumping ground for nearly 14,000 stranded souls, unable to move until permits are processed and fearful of what lies ahead. “Anything could happen because everything is hanging by a thread...
International order or world order generally refers to the state or nature of relationships between different states in the world. In reality, the relationships which define and determine the international or world order are relationships between major powers.
Political parties in Kenya have been holding primaries to choose the candidates who will represent them in the August General Polls. The process which kicked off on April 13th has been marred with chaos and violence. Police arrested armed men with machetes and whips seen disrupting a nomination exercise in some regions attacking party officials, accusing them of planning to rig the exercise.
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In March 2017, there were 6,300 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, including 500 administrative detainees, according to Addameer. [Reuters] An estimated 1500 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers have declared the beginning of an open hunger strike on 17 April 2017.
Without naming any specific country, the Iranian president said that the countries “supporting terrorist groups” such as the Taliban, Al Qaeda and the militant Islamic State group “financially and logistically for a long time cannot claim to be combating them”, according to a report carried by Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency.