Mykolas Romeris University has officially appointed a room for the muslim student of the university to obeserved there daily prayers. it is reported that the school has no praying place the muslim before which makes it dificult for their muslimThursday, 4 February 2016
Mosque in Vilnius, Lithuania
Mykolas Romeris University has officially appointed a room for the muslim student of the university to obeserved there daily prayers. it is reported that the school has no praying place the muslim before which makes it dificult for their muslim
Friday, 15 January 2016
Indonesia names 'mastermind' of Jakarta attacks
Police say Indonesian Bahrun Naim working for ISIL funded deadly attack that killed two civilians and five attackers.
Police have named an Indonesian, Bahrun Naim, as the mastermind of Thursday's deadly attack in Jakarta's main business district after it arrested three men in a pre-dawn raid.
The arrests on Friday came less than 24 hours after the shooting and bombing rampage, the first such attack in the world's most populous Muslim nation since 2009, which killed seven people. Five of the dead were the attackers themselves.
Police said Naim, who spent one year in jail for illegal possession of weapons in 2011, funded the attack. He is now believed to be in Syria fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
"His vision is to unite all ISIS-supporting elements in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines," Jakarta police chief Tito Karnavian said.
The police chief of Depok, where the arrests were made, told Metro TV that the men - which he described as a bomb-maker, a firearms expert and a preacher - were not linked to the Jakarta attack.
Raids were also under way across other parts of the populous island of Java and on other islands to round up suspects behind the attack, Reuters reported.
"Now we are sweeping in and outside Java, because we have captured several members of their group, and have identified them," National Police spokesman Anton Charliyan told Reuters.
At least 20 people were wounded when at least five attackers opened fire near a Starbucks coffee house in the city. Those killed included an Indonesian and a Canadian.
Officials said the attackers were armed with light weapons and suicide belts. Six blasts occurred about 50 metres apart in the central business district, which also houses a United Nations office.
The attacks were claimed by the ISIL group in a statement on Thursday, in which the group claimed it had killed 15 people.
Al Jazeera's Sohail Rahman, reporting from Jakarta, said many circumstances surrounding the attacks on Thursday remained unclear.
"There's not a state of emergency but certainly a heightened level of alert ... three individuals are being questioned at the moment. Whether there were any that got away is one line of inquiry.
"Who are they, where did they come from, how did they get into Jakarta, who helped them get in, did anyone house them?
"The munitions that were used, the rifles and the explosives, where did all of that come from? That's what's being looked into by investigators
The arrests on Friday came less than 24 hours after the shooting and bombing rampage, the first such attack in the world's most populous Muslim nation since 2009, which killed seven people. Five of the dead were the attackers themselves.
Police said Naim, who spent one year in jail for illegal possession of weapons in 2011, funded the attack. He is now believed to be in Syria fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
"His vision is to unite all ISIS-supporting elements in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines," Jakarta police chief Tito Karnavian said.
The police chief of Depok, where the arrests were made, told Metro TV that the men - which he described as a bomb-maker, a firearms expert and a preacher - were not linked to the Jakarta attack.
Raids were also under way across other parts of the populous island of Java and on other islands to round up suspects behind the attack, Reuters reported.
"Now we are sweeping in and outside Java, because we have captured several members of their group, and have identified them," National Police spokesman Anton Charliyan told Reuters.
At least 20 people were wounded when at least five attackers opened fire near a Starbucks coffee house in the city. Those killed included an Indonesian and a Canadian.
Officials said the attackers were armed with light weapons and suicide belts. Six blasts occurred about 50 metres apart in the central business district, which also houses a United Nations office.
The attacks were claimed by the ISIL group in a statement on Thursday, in which the group claimed it had killed 15 people.
Al Jazeera's Sohail Rahman, reporting from Jakarta, said many circumstances surrounding the attacks on Thursday remained unclear.
"There's not a state of emergency but certainly a heightened level of alert ... three individuals are being questioned at the moment. Whether there were any that got away is one line of inquiry.
"Who are they, where did they come from, how did they get into Jakarta, who helped them get in, did anyone house them?
"The munitions that were used, the rifles and the explosives, where did all of that come from? That's what's being looked into by investigators
New Ebola case confirmed in Sierra Leone
Medical tests confirm new Ebola death in Sierra Leone, just hours after WHO declares West Africa free of the virus.
A body has been tested positive for Ebola in northern Sierra Leone, just hours after the World Health Organization had declared West Africa Ebola-free, a Health Ministry official told Al Jazeera.
Two tests were carried out on the body from Tonkolili district by UK medical experts before confirming the case on Friday, according to Sidie Yahya Tunis.
The deceased patient, a 22-year-old woman, was attending school when she fell sick and returned home to her parents in the city of Magburaka on January 7. She died on January 12.
"It seems like an isolated case. We have not confirmed Ebola cases since September 13," Tunis said.
"The virus was recently contracted by the victim. However, since the victim was female, there is a chance that she contracted the disease by interaction with a male Ebola survivor."
Two tests were carried out on the body from Tonkolili district by UK medical experts before confirming the case on Friday, according to Sidie Yahya Tunis.
The deceased patient, a 22-year-old woman, was attending school when she fell sick and returned home to her parents in the city of Magburaka on January 7. She died on January 12.
"It seems like an isolated case. We have not confirmed Ebola cases since September 13," Tunis said.
"The virus was recently contracted by the victim. However, since the victim was female, there is a chance that she contracted the disease by interaction with a male Ebola survivor."
Thursday, 14 January 2016
India: US Tourist Dead After Falling Into Rice Paddy
A swampy rice paddy field where an American tourist was chased by a mob of villagers who had mistaken him for a thief on Tuesday, Jan. 12, is seen in the outskirts of Goa, India.
(AP Photo)
An American tourist died earlier this week after a mob of Indian villagers mistook him for a thief and chased him until he fell into a swampy rice paddy, where he choked on muddy water, local police said Thursday. The tourist, identified by his passport as 30-year-old Caitanya Holt, was eventually pulled out of the mud by police using ropes on Tuesday, but he was declared dead on arrival at a local hospital in the western state of Goa, police officer Umesh Gaonkar said. The cause of death has not yet been determined. Police were waiting for US Consulate officials to arrive from Mumbai to carry out an autopsy, Gaonkar said.
On Wednesday, the Press Trust of India
Update on International Olympic Committee says it will work closely with IAAF
6:25 p.m.
The International Olympic Committee says it will work closely with the new leadership of track and field's governing body and will "undertake any necessary action" to protect sports from corruption.
The IOC says it "takes note" of the second report of the World Anti-Doping Agency panel's report into corruption and doping involving former leaders of the IAAF.
The IOC says in a statement that the report "underlines the importance of the protection of the clean athletes" and "we will continue to work closely with the new leadership of the IAAF."
The IOC says it supports the report's call for good governance in sports organizations.
The Olympic body will "now study the report in detail and will undertake any necessary action to protect and strengthen the integrity of sport."
The WADA report said former IAAF president Lamine Diack "was responsible for organizing and enabling the conspiracy and corruption that took place." It said he "sanctioned and appears to have had personal knowledge of the fraud and the extortion of athletes."
Diack is a former IOC member.
The IOC noted that it suspended Diack after the first WADA report came out in November, and that Diack subsequently resigned as an honorary member.
The WADA report indicated that Diack was prepared to sell his vote in the bidding for the 2020 Olympics in exchange for sponsorship of IAAF events.
The panel, chaired by Canadian IOC member Dick Pound, said it "did not investigate this matter further for it was not within our remit."
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6:20 p.m.
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko says he backs all the recommendations in the WADA commission's report published Thursday.
The report focuses on alleged corruption and extortion at the IAAF, including attempts to cover up doping by Russian athletes, and recommends the IAAF investigate past malpractice and prevent corrupt relationships between officials and the IAAF and at national federations.
Mutko was sharply critical of the commission's first report in
The International Olympic Committee says it will work closely with the new leadership of track and field's governing body and will "undertake any necessary action" to protect sports from corruption.
The IOC says it "takes note" of the second report of the World Anti-Doping Agency panel's report into corruption and doping involving former leaders of the IAAF.
The IOC says in a statement that the report "underlines the importance of the protection of the clean athletes" and "we will continue to work closely with the new leadership of the IAAF."
The IOC says it supports the report's call for good governance in sports organizations.
The Olympic body will "now study the report in detail and will undertake any necessary action to protect and strengthen the integrity of sport."
The WADA report said former IAAF president Lamine Diack "was responsible for organizing and enabling the conspiracy and corruption that took place." It said he "sanctioned and appears to have had personal knowledge of the fraud and the extortion of athletes."
Diack is a former IOC member.
The IOC noted that it suspended Diack after the first WADA report came out in November, and that Diack subsequently resigned as an honorary member.
The WADA report indicated that Diack was prepared to sell his vote in the bidding for the 2020 Olympics in exchange for sponsorship of IAAF events.
The panel, chaired by Canadian IOC member Dick Pound, said it "did not investigate this matter further for it was not within our remit."
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6:20 p.m.
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko says he backs all the recommendations in the WADA commission's report published Thursday.
The report focuses on alleged corruption and extortion at the IAAF, including attempts to cover up doping by Russian athletes, and recommends the IAAF investigate past malpractice and prevent corrupt relationships between officials and the IAAF and at national federations.
Mutko was sharply critical of the commission's first report in
Weightlifting: Death of Leonid Jabotinsky
Ukrainian weightlifting Leonid Jabotinsky died Thursday at 77 years Zaporija. Representative of the former USSR in many competitions over the years 60,
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