MANILA, 20 Jumada Al-Awwal/11 April (IINA)-Philippine officials and those of the Islamic Development Bank held discussions in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last month on further expanding development projects in Mindanao, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday. Philippine Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ezzedin Tago and Consul General to Jeddah Uriel Norman Garibay met with the bank’s [...]

JAKARTA, 20 Jumada Al-Awwal/11 April (Agencies/IINA)-Indonesia has issued a tsunami warning after a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.9 hit waters off westernmost Aceh province. The US Geological Survey said Wednesday the quake was centered 20 miles (33 kilometres) beneath the ocean floor around 308 miles (495 kilometres) from the provincial capital of Banda [...]

JAKARTA,20 Jumada Al-Awwal/11 April (Agencies/IINA)-An earthquake of 8.9 magnitude has struck off the coast of Indonesia, sending residents there and in India dashing out of their homes and offices in fear. A tsunami warning was issued for the whole Indian Ocean. The quake struck 500 km southwest of the city of Banda Aceh, on the [...]

ABUJA, 19 Jumada Al-Awwal/10 April (IINA)-To address some of the pressing issues in the country, a coalition of Muslims organizations in Nigeria is organizing a conference to be held next week in Abuja. The conference, entitled “Nigerian Muslims and Democracy” is scheduled to hold on 14 and 15 April, 2012 at the Conference Hall of [...]

JEDDAH, 19 Jumada Al-Awwal/10 April (IINA)-The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu received recently at his office in Jeddah, Dr. Faisal Al-Moammar, the Secretary General of International King Abdullah Center for Dialogue of Civilization (IKACD) based in Vienna. Ihsanoglu welcomed establishment of IKACD and stressed the need for initiating [...]