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Pope Francis has said he was “very distressed” over Turkey’s decision to convert the Byzantine-era monument Hagia Sophia   back into a mosque . “My thoughts go to Istanbul. I’m thinking about Hagia Sophia. I am very distressed,” the pontiff said in the Vatican’s first reaction to a decision that has drawn international criticism. On Saturday the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano carried reaction from various countries to Friday’s decision, without making any comment. A magnet for tourists worldwide, the Hagia Sophia was first constructed as a cathedral in the Christian Byzantine empire but was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Hagia Sophia is too complex for Erdoğan's cleansing | Kenan Malik Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announced on Friday that Muslim prayers would begin on 24 July at the Unesco world heritage site. In the past, he has repeatedly called for the building to be redesignated as a mosque, and i

Surgeon and woman accused of drugging, raping two women Israel Police discovered that a doctor who works at a hospital in the center of the country has been taking women on dates, giving them date rape drugs, and proceeding to have sex with them without their consent, according to Israel's Channel 13. The discovery was made a few days after it was revealed that the Israel Police, alongside the Health Ministry, have been examining the possibility of bringing an Italian technology to Israel which is capable of detecting date rape drugs using a lock of hair.The police is investigating the doctor Follow us on twitter (ajuede.com) or on Instagram (ajuedeman) for details of the global situation presently.

Sri Lanka’s ruling party Sunday called off its rallies ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections and delayed the international airport’s reopening over a surge in virus cases. The South Asian country of 21 million lifted its coronavirus lockdown in late June after declaring there was no longer any community spread of the virus. But a swathe of cases emerged last week, including an outbreak at a drug rehabilitation centre last week that saw 253 patients test positive in a single night. “All public meetings where the president and the prime minister were due to attend today, tomorrow and the day after have been cancelled,” President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party said in a statement. Rajapaksa’s brother Mahinda is the country’s prime minister. The party said all their candidates were also told to call off upcoming public gatherings ahead of the August 5 poll. Aviation Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said Sunday the international ai