14 June 2017 Fox News U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and his aides have been shot at baseball practice in Virginia, Fox News confirms. It is understood about 50-100 shots were fired in the incident. Scalise's security detail also shot, CNN reported. The extent of Scalise's injuries are unknown but it is understood at...

London 14 June 2017 (CNN/BBC/Reuters) London's Metropolitan Police have confirmed six deaths following a huge blaze that's engulfed a residential apartment block in West London. A huge fire has broken out at a block of flats at Lancaster West Estate, in the Latimer Road area of West London, police and firefighters have said according to...

14 June 2017 (AlJazeera News) A prominent human rights lawyer in Bahrain has been arrested after launching a lawsuit against the government over its restrictions imposed on neighbouring Qatar. Issa Faraj Arhama al-Burshaid was detained after challenging Manama's sanctions, which include blocking Qataris from staying in the country along with other economic penalties. He filed...

Islamabad 13 June 2017 (APP) Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has expressed the hope that the current impasse in the Gulf would be resolved soon in the best interest of the Muslim Ummah. This was stated in a press release issued by the Prime Minister House at the end of his day-long visit to Saudi...

London 12 June 2017 Amnesty International once again said that recent humanitarian measures by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain are vague and insufficient and do not address the human rights situation. This came during a meeting between His Dr. Ali Bin Samikh Al Marri, Chairman of the National Human Rights Committee of the State...

Doha AlJazeera News 12 June 2017 Iraq's prime minister has rejected Saudi and UAE media claims that a $500m ransom was paid by Qatar to Shia Muslim armed groups in Iraq to secure the release of 26 kidnapped Qatari hunters, saying that the money was received by the Iraqi government and that the sum was...

Islamabad 12 June 2017 (APP) Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif will leave for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia today (Monday) in context of the emergent situation among Gulf countries, PM’s Office said on Monday. It is not disclosed by Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), Pakistan's official News Agency whether Pakistan Prime Minister will also be visiting...

Astana, 10 June 2017 Daily 'Dawn' Pakistan on Friday became a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, DawnNews reported. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in his inaugural speech during the 17th SCO summit welcomed Pakistan as full member of the organisation. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, addressing the summit, said, "The SCO goals resonate with Pakistan's...

Doha 11 June 2017 (AlJazeera News) Following recent statements by the Saudi foreign minister calling on Qatar to end its support of Hamas, social media users in the Arab world reacted in support of the Palestinian resistance movement and to counter the minister's statements which characterised Hamas as a "terrorist organisation". Adel al-Jubeir's remarks came...

Doha 11 June 2017 National Human Rights Committee of State of Qatar (NHRC) has said today that the directives issued by Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain to take into consideration the humanitarian situation of mixed families (Saudi-Qatari, Emirati-Qatari and Bahraini-Qatari families) are vague, lacking a practical mechanism for implementation on the ground. The NHRC said...