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Published by Reuters By Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) – With prices surging, 24-year-old Noemi Turi presented her employer in Budapest with a pay request 16% above what she considered acceptable just a few months ago as double-digit inflation across East Europe fuels wage demands. The small business, where the Hungarian university student works as a […]

Published by Al-Araby Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is planning to visit the United Arab Emirates later this month, according to local media, just weeks after the Gulf state reacted strongly against derogatory remarks made by now-suspended ruling party officials against Prophet Muhammad. The visit will likely be part of a trip to Germany where

Published by BOOM Live By Anmol Alphonso An unrelated video from Qatar showing a large crowd of migrant workers leaving Redco International company for their home countries, is being shared with a false claim that Indian migrant workers in Kuwait are being sent back home after anti-Prophet Mohammad remarks by suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma.

Published by Al-Araby An explosion at a chemical factory in southern Iran injured scores of people, most of them lightly, the country’s state TV reported Tuesday. The report said a leak from an ammonium tank caused the blast on Monday evening in the southern city of Firouzabad in Fars province, located about 770 kilometers (480

Published by BOOM Live By BOOM Team Two BJP members kicked up a row across the country last week after their remarks against Prophet Mohammed and his wife Aisha. The duo’s objectionable remarks got India backlash from several countries such as Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia. Indian envoys to the respective countries were also

Published by Reuters UK LONDON (Reuters) – The value of the cryptocurrency market on Monday fell below $1 trillion for the first time since January 2021, according to data site CoinMarketCap, reaching as low as $926 billion. The largest cryptocurrency, bitcoin, was down more than 9% on the day, falling to an 18-month low of

Published by Reuters UK GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, indicated on Monday that she would not seek a second term, the surprise announcement coming in a wide-ranging speech to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council. Bachelet made a trip to China last month for which she was criticised by rights

Published by Al-Araby The Indian rupee plunged to a record low against the dollar on Monday, ahead of an expected US interest rate hike this week aimed at fighting surging inflation. The rupee hit 78.2825 per dollar for the first time as a forecast-beating US inflation report on Friday heightened prospects for a further tightening

Published by Al-Araby An 18-year-old man was shot and seriously injured in the Palestinian town of Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel on Saturday, according to police. Paramedics reportedly took the man to the nearby town of Afula for treatment. Palestinian citizens of Israel have long accused Israeli police of turning a blind eye to crime

Published by Reuters By Fayaz Bukhari and Subrata Nag Choudhury SRINAGAR/KOLKATA, India (Reuters) -Police in India’s Kashmir arrested a youth for posting a video threatening to behead a former spokesperson of India’s ruling party who had made derogatory remarks about Islam’s religious leader Prophet Mohammad, officials said on Sunday. The video, circulated on YouTube, has