Sefriyan Reynaldi

Australia reports record number of daily COVID-19 cases, 13 deaths SYDNEY: Australia on Thursday (Jul 30) reported a record number of new COVID-19 infections and its deadliest day of the pandemic so far following a spike in cases at elderly care homes. A total of 747 new cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours, the country's Acting Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly announced at a press conference. "That is a new unfortunate record. Most of those cases are in Victoria and almost all of those in the greater Melbourne area," he said. In the southeastern state of Victoria alone, 13 deaths and 723 positive tests were reported, well beyond the previous nationwide record of 549 cases set on Monday. This takes the death toll from the coronavirus in Australia to 189, more than half of which occurred in Victoria and its capital Melbourne. Days after authorities expressed hope that a Melbourne lockdown - now in its third week - was bringing persistent outbrea...

EGYPTIAN MUFTI PROHIBITS HAGIA SOPHIA USED AS MOSQUE             The Great Mufti of Egypt, Shawky Alam, considers the change in the status of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, from a museum to a mosque, a prohibited act.  Nature considers that historic place must function as before as a church.  "We as Muslims are ordered to preserve the church. The Prophet Muhammad always recommended in war not to destroy temples or kill monks," Alam said as quoted by Al Araby.  Alam says churches and mosques must be preserved throughout the world as happened during Egyptian civilization.  . He referred to the fatwa of his predecessor, Laith bin Saad Fakih, which stated that the church was part of the earth's architecture in Islam. Nature's statement in response to the decision of  Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, set Hagia Sophia back as a mosque. Erdogan's decision was taken after the Turkish State Assembly overturned...