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Canada has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, after years of pressure from opposition legislators and some members of the Iranian diaspora, APA reports citing BBC. Announcing the decision on Wednesday, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc called it a “significant tool in fighting global terrorism”. The move will mean that thousands of senior Iranian government officials, including top IRGC officials, will be barred from entering Canada. The IRGC is a major military, political and economic force in Iran, with close ties to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It is estimated to have more than…

The Islamic Scholarship Fund (ISF) has received $500,000 from the Doris Duke Foundation’s Building Bridges Program to provide multi-year support through a collaborative fellowship with the Sundance Institute, attendance at industry events (including April’s Getting Real conference), and unrestricted funding to filmmaker grantees. It’s the largest single grant the ISF has ever received.The ISF Building Bridges Program prize activities started earlier this year. The Sundance collaboration supported six U.S.-based filmmakers focused on telling Muslim-related stories and will continue for the next two years, totaling 18 awardees receiving a yearlong structured mentorship program that starts with a “bespoke experience” of attending…

Ottawa cites the IRGC’s ties to Hamas and Hezbollah, accusing Iran of ‘complete disregard for human rights’.Canada has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist” entity and urged its citizens in Iran to leave. The Canadian government made the announcement on Wednesday, saying that the move will help Ottawa with “countering terrorist financing”. “The decision to list the IRGC through the Criminal Code listing regime sends a strong message that Canada will use all tools at its disposal to combat the terrorist activity of the IRGC, conducted both unilaterally and in knowing association with listed terrorist entities…

Ottawa on Wednesday listed Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist entity while calling on Canadians in the Islamic country to leave. The terrorism listing bars members of the Guards from entering Canada and Canadians from having any dealings with individual members or the group(File) {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} “Our government has made the decision to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code,” Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told a news conference. Now catch your favourite game on Crickit. Anytime Anywhere. Find out how Flanked by Canada’s foreign and justice ministers, he accused the…

America Must Act Against the Islamic Republic of Iran By: Ken Abramowitz The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) dictatorship began in December 1979, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic Revolution, became the Supreme Leader.  A new Islamic-based Constitution was adopted. In foreign policy, the Constitution declared it would “support the just struggles of the oppressed against the oppressors” in every corner of the globe. The new authoritarian government identified Israel and the US as the major obstacles to achieving this goal. Thus, the government explicitly called for “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”, as Israel…

Former Israeli hostage Ada Sagi, 75, who was kidnapped by the Hamas-allied group Islamic Jihad on Oct. 7 last year, said she was held in both civilian homes and a hospital in and around the city of Khan Younis in Gaza before she was released as part of an exchange for Palestinian prisoners in November 2023.In an interview aired Wednesday, Sagi told CBS News partner network BBC News that she was taken by two kidnappers on a motorcycle from her home in Kibbutz Nir Oz into Gaza on Oct. 7. She said she was forced to leave her shoes behind, and her…

The federal government is listing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization under Canada’s Criminal Code after years of mounting pressure.Federal ministers delivered the news Wednesday afternoon, hours after CBC News first reported the government was preparing to make the announcement.”This action sends a strong message that Canada will use all of the tools at its disposal to combat the terrorist entity of the IRGC,” Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters. “Our government will ensure that there is no immunity for Iran’s unlawful actions and its support of terrorism.”Once a group is placed on the country’s terror list,…

OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says Canada has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, following months of mounting political pressure to do so. OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says Canada has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, following months of mounting political pressure to do so. “The Iranian regime has consistently displayed disregard for human rights, both inside and outside of Iran, as well as a willingness to destabilize the international rules-based order,” LeBlanc said at a press conference on Wednesday. Members of Parliament voted unanimously in May…

OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says Canada has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, following months of mounting political pressure to do so. OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says Canada has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, following months of mounting political pressure to do so. “The Iranian regime has consistently displayed disregard for human rights, both inside and outside of Iran, as well as a willingness to destabilize the international rules-based order,” LeBlanc said at a press conference on Wednesday. Members of Parliament voted unanimously in May…

OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says Canada has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, following months of mounting political pressure to do so.”The Iranian regime has consistently displayed disregard for human rights, both inside and outside of Iran, as well as a willingness to destabilize the international rules-based order,” LeBlanc said at a press conference on Wednesday.Members of Parliament voted unanimously in May in favour of a non-binding motion calling on the government to list the IRGC, a branch of Iran’s Armed Forces, as a terrorist entity.The Liberals have said in the past that…

Canada will list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, as a terrorist group. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc made the announcement Wednesday afternoon, vowing Canada will “use all of the tools at its disposal” to combat the IRGC’s activity in Canada.  It is a crime to knowingly deal with the assets of a listed terrorist entity under Canada’s Criminal Code. Charitable organizations can lose their status if they maintain their connections to terrorist groups, and people found to be associated with those groups can be denied entry into Canada. It…

Canada will list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, as a terrorist group. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc made the announcement Wednesday afternoon, vowing Canada will “use all of the tools at its disposal” to combat the IRGC’s activity in Canada.  It is a crime to knowingly deal with the assets of a listed terrorist entity under Canada’s Criminal Code. Charitable organizations can lose their status if they maintain their connections to terrorist groups, and people found to be associated with those groups can be denied entry into Canada. It…

Washington — The United States is sharpening its counterterrorism focus on Somalia, going after increasingly high-profile targets linked to a resurgence of the Islamic State terror group from its base in the Horn of Africa. U.S. officials are concerned that IS-Somalia, as the terror group’s regional affiliate is known, has moved from being a key cog in the Islamic State global financial network to hosting the group’s top leader. Top IS leaders “view Africa as a place where they should invest, where they are more permissive and able to operate better and more freely, and they want to expand,” according…

There’s one next month…If you’re already wondering when the next public holiday in UAE is, you have come to the right place. Here, we take a look at the public holidays (and, hopefully…. some precious long weekends) coming up in the UAE.So, when is the next UAE public holiday?Under the direction of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, the UAE Cabinet outlined a full list of public holidays for 2024 at the end of last year.With the four-day Eid Al Adha holiday now over, the next public holiday is Hijri New Year/Islamic New Year which is slated to fall on July 7,…

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The federal government is preparing to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization under Canada’s Criminal Code after mounting pressure, CBC News has learned. Multiple sources with knowledge of the talks say an announcement is expected as early as this week. Discussions are still ongoing and details not finalized, they said. Once a group is placed on the country’s terror list, police can charge anyone who financially or materially supports the group and banks can freeze assets.  The latest development comes after years of pressure including from the Association of Flight PS752 Victims, members of the…

RAM Ratings has affirmed the AAA/Stable/P1 financial institution ratings of Public Bank Berhad (the Group) and its core subsidiary, Public Islamic Bank Berhad. The issue ratings of the entities have concurrently been affirmed. The Ratings agency said the affirmation is premised on the Group’s consistently pristine asset quality, solid balance sheet and resilient earnings, even through economic cycles. Public Bank is the third-largest banking group in Malaysia by asset size and a market leader in residential mortgages, commercial property financing, automobile financing and retail unit trusts. Commanding a respective 17.5% and 16.3% of the domestic banking system’s loans and deposits…

By Ivor Bennett, Moscow correspondentThere are two schools of thoughts regarding why Vladimir Putin is in North Korea. One is that Russia doesn’t really have any other options right now. Its ongoing invasion of Ukraine has left it isolated from the West, and forced to pivot east. The visit to Pyongyang, and the world’s most isolated state, is a reflection of Moscow’s desperation, some say.The opposing view is that Russia does have a lot of options right now. They’re talking to Cuba, China, even the Taliban. So others believe this is a calculated move to show what’s possible when the West,…

Former Israeli hostage Ada Sagi, 75, who was kidnapped by the Hamas-allied group Islamic Jihad on Oct. 7 last year, said she was held in both civilian homes and a hospital in and around the city of Khan Younis in Gaza before she was released as part of an exchange for Palestinian prisoners in November 2023.In an interview aired Wednesday, Sagi told CBS News partner network BBC News that she was taken by two kidnappers on a motorcycle from her home in Kibbutz Nir Oz into Gaza on Oct. 7. She said she was forced to leave her shoes behind, and her…

President of Religious Affairs Ali Erbaş attended the Eid Ceremony of the Leaders and Ministers of the Hajj Delegations of the Islamic World held in Mecca, hosted by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mr. Mohammed bin Salman. Erbaş, who shared the issue on his social media account, said in his post that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in his speech at the Eid celebration, said: “Immediate stopping of the terrible murders committed on our Gazan brothers, ensuring the ceasefire as soon as possible, implementation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions, the capital of which is East…

Islamic State militants, killing a group of captured Ethiopian Christians in Libya.THE Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group’s Egypt affiliate, the Sinai Province, has published a still photo of the beheaded body of a Croatian hostage it had threatened to kill last week, the SITE monitoring service reported. The photo included a caption that said “killing of the Croatian hostage, due to his country’s participation in the war against Islamic State, after the deadline expired”. SITE said the photo was distributed on Twitter yesterday. A spokesman from the Egyptian interior ministry’s press office said: “We have seen…

The Star reported that the five were brought to the Johor Bahru Court Complex in separate vehicles amid tight security. They arrived at around 9am, according to local media, and were escorted by nearly 30 police officers. Radin Imran – the patriarch of the family – faces four charges, including under Section 130G (a) of the Penal Code (Act 574), for inciting terrorism by promoting the ideology of violence associated with the Islamic State (IS). If found guilty of that, he may be jailed for up to 30 years and liable to a fine. He was reported to have propagated…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The father of a Malaysian man who attacked a police station and killed two police officers last month was charged Wednesday with inciting terrorism in his family. His Singaporean wife and three other children were also brought to court to face charges.Radin Imran Radin Mohd Yassin, 62, faces four charges including promoting terrorist acts by allegedly instilling the violent ideology of the Islamic State group in his family, including his 21-year-old son Radin Luqman, who was killed by police in the attack.Radin Luqman stormed the police station in southern Johor state near Singapore in the early…

Islamic State encourages terrorist cells to attack Real Madrid players and Santiago BernabeuReal Madrid have been threatened by terrorist organisation so-called Islamic State, with the organisation calling on its followers to attack the team bus and the fans at the stadium.In a recent operation carried out by the Spanish police, the Guardia Civil division, they have brought down the propaganda centre in Europe, say El Confidencial via Marca. In total, nine arrests were made in Salt (Catalonia), Alegeciras (Andalusia) and Tenerife. One of the messages put out by propaganda division asked a terrorist to wait where Real Madrid’s bus arrives…

In recent months, Islamic State has escalated its calls to attack sporting events in Europe. Governments are increasingly concerned about the specific threat the terrorist group poses to the upcoming Paris Olympics and Paralympic Games.But how concerned should we be? While definitive answers on the dangers posed by clandestine actors are inherently hard to get, there are three important factors to look at: intent, capability and opportunity.Questions of intentAn attack on the Olympics would certainly offer the type of global impact few other targets could provide. But there’s still the question of whether Islamic State would want to devote the…