Nobel Peace Prize winner Wided Bouchamaoui urged people everywhere today not to “muddle up” terrorism with Islam.The Tunisian businesswoman, who co-founded the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet which won the 2015 peace prize, said Muslims who practice their faith calmly and respectfully are “victims of a semantic problem” when “terrorists” are described as “Islamic terrorists.”
In another attack in Pakistan, two bombs killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens outside a court complex in Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a rescue official said, hours after militants from a Pakistani Taliban faction attacked a Christian neighbourhood in the same region.
Sri Lanka’s national carrier, SriLankan Airlines celebrates 37 years of service to the country today (1st September) with renewed hope for the future as it continues to revamp its global network, reduce its losses, optimize revenue, and move towards profitability, the Airline said in a statement.
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, who arrived in the country Wednesday on a three-day official visit, called on Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Temple Trees on Thursday.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of Sri Lanka’s former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was among eight persons against whom the a graft commission filed a corruption case on Wednesday for causing a loss of nearly $75 million.
West Indies great Courtney Walsh is set to take over as bowling coach of the Bangladesh cricket team on a three-year contract.Walsh, who was the first bowler to take 500 test wickets, has worked as a West Indies selector since he retired as a player but has not held a senior coaching role at the Read More
French Open champion and third seed Garbine Muguruza was sent spinning out of the US Open second round on Wednesday by Latvia’s Anastasija Sevastova.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has defended the right of the U.S. to build a wall along its southern border during his visit to Mexico, but stirred controversy after his claim of not having discussed who would pay for it was disputed by the Mexican President.
Pakistan’s electronic media watchdog on Thursday warned of a crackdown on local channels illegally airing contents from Indian channels and imposed a cap of less than 6 per cent of air-time to telecast Indian television channels.
Scientists have set a new record for spotting the most distant galaxy cluster located about 11.1 billion light-years from the Earth, a discovery that pushes back the formation time of these clusters by about 700 million years.
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