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Islamic State calls COVID-19 God's punishment for foes - tape
CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State (IS) said the coronavirus pandemic was divine punishment for its enemies, according to an audio broadcast on Thursday, where the jihadists also vowed more attacks.
Myanmar ignored UN court's order to protect Rohingya, say refugees
YANGON: Myanmar was due to submit a report to the United Nations' top court on Saturday detailing what it has done to protect the minority Rohingya from genocide. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in January ordered Myanmar to safeguard the mostly Muslim group as part of "provisional measures".
India charges Muslim leader with culpable homicide for coronavirus surge
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the chief of a Muslim seminary for holding a gathering last month that authorities say led to a big jump in coronavirus infections, police said on Thursday.
Pakistan, Bangladesh try to stop Friday prayers to avert coronavirus spike
ISLAMABAD/DHAKA (Reuters) - Police in Pakistan will enforce a strict lockdown to prevent people from going to mosques to offer Friday prayers and fuel a rise in coronavirus infection, officials said, after failing to prevent large congregations last week.
Racing to stop coronavirus, India scours mosques to trace contacts with Delhi gathering
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - As coronavirus cases rose across densely-populated South Asia, authorities scoured mosques in northern India on Wednesday trying to trace people who attended the gathering of a Muslim group in New Delhi that later emerged as an infection hotspot.
India cracks down on Muslim group emerging as coronavirus cluster
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India sealed off the headquarters of a Muslim missionary group on Tuesday and ordered an investigation into accusations it held religious meetings that officials fear may have infected dozens of people with the coronavirus.
Coronavirus: Muslim group in Indonesia in close contact with infected patients moved to quarantine ward
JAKARTA: Indonesian armed forces were progressively moving more than 200 Muslim worshippers - half of them are foreigners - from a mosque in West Jakarta to the country's largest quarantine centre, the Wisma Atlet in North Jakarta, in a pre-emptive move to curb the spread of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak.
Protests in New Delhi against India's citizenship law ahead of Trump visit
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Police used tear gas to disperse large crowds in India's capital of New Delhi on Sunday in the latest eruption of violence at protests over a new citizenship law, police officials said.
No welcome home for ‘terrorist virus’
Jakarta: The government has decided not to repatriate Indonesian sympathisers of the Islamic State (IS) movement who are currently outside the country, saying that it would prioritise the safety of the hundreds of millions of Indonesians at home against what a minister described as a “virus”.
Nigerian police on heightened alert after U.S. killing of Iranian commander
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian police have been placed on a heightened state of alert after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander in Iraq sparked fears of public disturbances in the West African country, the police said on Sunday.