Muezzins issuing high-decibel calls to prayer have long been part of Saudi identity, but a crackdown on mosque loudspeakers is among contentious reforms seeking to shake off the kingdom\’s austere image, an AFP report in dawn.com says. Saudi Arabia, home to the holiest Muslim sites, has long been associated with a strain of Islam known
Saudi women can now live on their own without requiring the consent of their father or male guardian after a new legal amendment by the Kingdom, Gulf News reported on Wednesday. According to the report, Saudi legal authorities removed paragraph (b) from Article 169 of the \”Law of Procedure before Sharia Courts\” which stated that an adult single,
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Sicilian Mafia boss Giovanni Brusca, whose grisly crimes include having a child\’s body dissolved in acid, has been released from prison, BBC reported. Dubbed the \”people slayer\”, Brusca has confessed to his role in over 100 killings, including the assassination of Italy\’s top anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone. But Brusca became an informant, helping prosecutors hunt
A decade of war in Syria has left nearly half a million people dead, a war monitor said on Tuesday, in a new toll that includes 100,000 recently confirmed deaths. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the conflict has claimed 494,438 lives since it erupted in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests. The previous
China has announced that it will allow couples to have up to three children, after census data showed a steep decline in birth rates. China scrapped its decades-old one-child policy in 2016, replacing it with a two-child limit which has failed to lead to a sustained upsurge in births. The cost of raising children in
