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The global coronavirus pandemic has changed the way Muslims around the world are observing the holy month of Ramadan.In Iran, the foodservice industry has been hit hard.Before the coronavirus outbreak, restaurants were already struggling. Months of political and economic unrest meant fewer customers.Many small businesses have gone under and many more are on the verge…

Tajikistan was one of the few countries where professional football was still being played up until the weekend, when the local federation suspended the season until at least May 10 [File: Nozim Kalandarov/Reuters] Tajikistan has declared its first 15 coronavirus cases on Thursday, after weeks of claiming to be virus-free despite sharing borders with China…

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – After living through two back-to-back lockdowns that have devastated the local economy, people in Indian-administered Kashmir have settled for a quiet Ramadan. The threat of the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus has emptied the usually overcrowded mosques in the picturesque, Muslim-majority Himalayan valley. More: Kashmir journalist charged for ‘anti-national’ social media posts…

Veteran South African anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg, who stood trial alongside late President Nelson Mandela, has died. He was 87 years old. Goldberg, who had lung cancer, died just before midnight on Wednesday at his home in Cape Town. He was considered a stalwart of the South African liberation struggle and was the only white member of…

Koblenz, Germany – This week in Koblenz, a picturesque German town on the banks of the Rhine river, local prosecutors have been demonstrating how the world could try war criminals. During the first few days of a landmark case focusing on crimes against humanity by members of the Syrian regime, the court heard details of years-long…

Ankara, Turkey – As the Muslim world marks Ramadan under the cloud of the coronavirus outbreak, Turkey’s powerful Religious Affairs Directorate has emerged as a leading voice in guiding the faithful during the crisis. Such prominence, however, has also shone a critical light on the directorate, known as the Diyanet, for its actions during the crisis.…

Hospitals around the world have found themselves short of ventilators, the machines that can ultimately save the lives of patients who suffer the worst symptoms of COVID-19. Qatar is among the countries that are making their own as it grapples with large increases in new cases. Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra reports from Doha, Qatar.

United States President Donald Trump this week joined other Republican leaders in resisting rising calls from Democrats and many governors across the US for federal aid to states and cities, and added a divisive immigration issue to the mix. “The problem with the states is we’re not looking to recover 25 years of bad management…

Libyan renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar has said his forces would cease hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan following international calls for a truce in the war-torn North African nation. Ahmed Mismari, spokesman for Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), said in a television broadcast on Thursday the ceasefire came at the request of the…

China has no interest in interfering in the United States’s presidential election, Beijing said on Thursday, following remarks by President Donald Trump that it “will do anything they can” to make him lose his re-election bid in November. Geng Shuang, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, told reporters during a daily briefing the election was an internal affair…

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