On the 6th of January, the New York Times published an article entitled, “Tapes Reveal Egyptian Leaders’ Tacit Acceptance of Jerusalem Move”. It stated that while the Egyptian government was publicly criticising President Trump’s announcement last month that the U.S. would recognise Jerusalem as the capital of ‘Israel’, an Egyptian intelligence officer was asking several influential TV hosts in the country to persuade Egyptians to accept the decision

Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, said on Sunday that his government has removed the restriction on Muslim women from performing Haj alone, following which hundreds of women have applied to travel alone for the pilgrimage, Times of India reported.

On 19th December, 2017, during delivering a lecture at Nurjahan Murshid and Professor Khan Sarwar Murshid Trust Fund at Dhaka, eminent economist and chairman of the Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD), and an independent thinktank

As reported by Reuters, Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte, on Sunday (16/12) expressed his support for same-sex unions, at a gathering of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Davao City, after previously declaring his opposition to gay marriage, in an about-face that may displease bishops in the mainly Roman Catholic country.