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Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the Ukraine government’s move to ban a Russia-linked branch of the country’s Orthodox Church. “Do not touch churches,” the pope said in his weekly prayers, one day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged on Saturday to “strengthen our Ukrainian spiritual independence,” suggesting that the country’s leadership was moving toward effectively banning the branch of the Orthodox Church that has links…
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A facility in Qassim region has been fined SR500,000 ($133,000) after the Saudi Food and Drug Authority found the documentation of a shipment it imported had been tampered with, with the intention of selling a type of fish banned from…
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A ban on Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel was extended for another 45 days by Israel’s telecoms regulator on Sunday after the cabinet agreed its broadcasts posed a threat to security. A Tel Aviv court last week upheld an initial 35-day…
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Legislation that could ban TikTok in the US if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake won a major boost late Wednesday when House Republican leaders included it in a package of bills that would send aid to Ukraine and Israel. The bill…
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A Muslim pupil lost a UK court challenge Tuesday against a top London school’s ban on prayer rituals, in a case about freedom of religion in schools that captured national attention. The student, who cannot be named, took legal action…
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Muslim-majority Chechnya has imposed a ban on dance music deemed either too fast or too slow in an attempt to quash Western influences. The ban, announced earlier this week, applies to all musical, vocal, and choreographic works not…
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India’s top court put on hold a lower court’s order that effectively banned Islamic schools in the country’s most populous state, lawyers involved in the case said on Friday, giving a breather to thousands of students and teachers in the…
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France on Thursday said it was banning all pro-Palestinian demonstrations after the bloody attack on Israel by Hamas, on the grounds such protests threaten public order. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in a note to regional…
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Hungary has agreed with Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria to bar Ukrainian grain imports to protect their markets if the European Union does not extend a ban that expires on Sept. 15, the Hungarian farm minister said on Wednesday. However,…
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