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The system is Islamic and sharia-based, sharia is being implemented, said supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada.

Juddges said Al Hassan played a key role in the Ansar Dine Islamist group which took the city in 2012 and tried to impose sharia law.

The landmark decision was delivered by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat who led a panel of nine judges.

The bill also proposes to increase the legal age of marriage for girls to 21 years.

Taliban official Ahmadullah Muttaqi said a ceremony was being prepared at the presidential palace in Kabul.

Afghanistan would not be a democracy, Waheedullah Hashimi told Reuters: "It is sharia law and that is it."

A strong backlash also has emerged, led by moderate Muslims who worry that conservative Islamists are wrecking Indonesia's tradition of religious tolerance.

Boko Haram has killed 15,000 people and displaced more than two million during a seven-year insurgency to create an Islamic state governed by a strict interpretation of sharia law.

MCA strongly opposes the action of bypassing the BN administration to enable the tabling of the hudud Bill by any means.

The Maldives' highest court has overturned a sentence of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery.

Ben Carson blamed the entire controversy over his views of Islam on "political correctness," a bugaboo of his campaign that's just as unpopular on the right as sharia.

In a rare interview with a foreign media, Abdul Hadi tells AFP that hudud itself is almost impossible to implement because the requirements are very strict to come to the eventual punishment.

Hafidz Baharom salutes the judgment passed of the constitutional challenge regarding Sharia law regarding transgenders -(Section 66) of the Negri Sembilan Sharia Criminal Enactment of 1992.

Lawmakers in Indonesia's Aceh will vote Friday on whether to make gay sex punishable by 100 lashes of the cane.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday expressed disappointment at intense public infighting between senior officials, calling for "calm" amid Western economic sanctions.

Almost 200 residents from 60 homes in Kampung Tanjung Kala have ended up stuck when their 200-metre (m) long concrete bridge flooded.

The draft finance deal criticised by both developed and developing nations.

This was following the discovery of a suspected prohibited item in luggage.

Kelantan has reminded the public in the state to refrain from outdoor activities with the arrival of the Northeast Monsoon season.

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern was given a global leadership award by the United Nations Foundation.

The decision of the ICC to issue arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant is apt, said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

KTMB will provide two additional ETS trains for the KL Sentral-Padang Besar route and return trips in conjunction with the holidays.

Malaysia's international reserves rose to US$118.0 billion as at Nov 15, 2024, up from US$117.6 billion on Oct 30, 2024.

The findings announced are part of a years-long study of the history of the cosmos focusing upon dark energy.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability (NRES) wishes to offer the following clarifications to the issues raised.