On Monday, 15 December 2025, at a ceremony, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, tore the veil from the face of a Muslim doctor, Nusrat Parveen. After doing so, he laughed as if tearing the veil from a Muslim woman’s face were a joke. Whereas, when in Madina the Jews uncovered a Muslim woman and mocked her condition,
On Thursday 11th December, the organization, The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, reported it had documented almost 1300 incidents of sexual violence against women spanning 14 states in Sudan since the war started in the country in April 2023, with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) blamed for 87% of cases.
On 10 December 2025, the United States seized the oil tanker Skipper off the coast of Venezuela, boarding the vessel and redirecting its cargo of roughly 1.8 million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil to U.S. custody under a U.S. sanctions warrant that was about to expire. U.S. officials asserted this enforcement action was aimed at penalizing violations of long-standing sanctions tied to alleged illicit oil shipments.
President Erdoğan, in remarks following the cabinet meeting, also touched on Türkiye’s foreign-policy approach, saying: “Türkiye has given the world a lesson in human rights through its peace- and justice-focused efforts in regions soaked with blood and tears—Gaza, Syria, Somalia, and Libya.
Cyclone Senyar was only the trigger; the scale of destruction in Indonesia reflects decades of ecological mismanagement. Sumatra has lost millions of hectares of forest, weakening watersheds in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra. Peatlands were drained for plantations, causing land subsidence and turning natural water buffers into flood basins.
Al-Raya Newspaper: Prominent Headlines of Issue 578
Al-Rayah Newspaper: Issue 578 in English
