LONDON: Britain has banned a radical Indian preacher, who claimed that “every Muslim should be a terrorist,” from entering the country, a paper reported Friday, citing the interior minister.

The man suspected of trying to set off a bomb in New York City’s Times Square early last month has been formally charged by a federal grand jury.

JERUSALEM – Around 80,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews on Thursday held a mass protest in Jerusalem, a police official said, with the number rising rapidly as thousands more flooded into the city.

Israeli police have been placed on high alert in view of protests planned by Ultra-Orthodox Jews against a court order to jail parents who refuse to let their daughters attend a religiously integrated school.

GENEVA (Reuters) Muslim states said on Wednesday that what they call “islamophobia” is sweeping the West and its media and demanded that the United Nations take tougher action against it.

Barcelona is set to become the first big city in Spain to ban Islamic face veils in public buildings such as markets and libraries.

Turkey and Palestinians have attacked Israel’s announcement that it is creating an internal committee to probe its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last month, saying it did not comply with UN demands.

Violence in Mexico has led to the deaths of 42 people, as rival drug-gangs clashed in a prison leading to 29 deaths and separately 13 police officers were killed.

GAZA CITY (Agencies) Arab League chief Amr Moussa said during his first-ever visit to the Gaza Strip on Sunday that a four-year siege on the Hamas-run territory must be “broken.”

BAGHDAD (Agencies( Suicide bombers and gunmen wearing military uniforms killed 15 people and took hostages on Sunday in a daring raid on the Iraq Central Bank in Baghdad, triggering an ongoing siege with security forces.