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JERUSALEM (Ma’an): Two young Palestinian men were injured Friday evening during clashes with Israeli forces in the town of Abu Dis east of Jerusalem. Bassam Bahar, a lawyer who chairs a local committee to defend the lands of Abu Dis, told Ma’an that clashes broke near Mafraq al-Jabal area of Abu Dis between young […]

6th Jun 2015

Yemen: Houthis & exiled President to attend UN-brokered peace talks

[Saudi Airforce] Houthi Shiite rebels and Yemen’s exiled government have agreed to attend UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva later this month. The UN has described the humanitarian situation in Yemen as “catastrophic.” The talks are aimed at ending weeks of fighting that have cost more 2,300 lives since mid-March. A Saudi-led coalition has been […]

5th Jun 2015

Global coalition intensify campaign against ISIL

Comment By Tobias Ellwood MP The fall of Palmyra and Ramadi in Iraq, has filled our newspapers with yet more stories and images of the violence and brutality of the terrorist group known as ISIL. We have seen once again the untold misery and suffering they cause in areas they occupy, largely amongst […]

5th Jun 2015

Pakistan: Crackdown on seminaries promoting terrorism

[Photo: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah chairing provincial apex committee meeting at CM House: PPI] By Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI, (Dawn): The Sindh government has decided to initiate a crackdown on 48 seminaries which have been found to be promoting terrorism in the country in general and in the province in particular. […]

5th Jun 2015

Libya: 441 illegal immigrants arrested

[Photo: Illegal immigrants wait in a detention center in central Tripoli, Libya, on June 4 (Xinhua/Hamza Turkia)] TRIPOLI, (Xinhua): Libya’s security forces on Thursday arrested 441 African nationals planning to illegally immigrate to Europe, according to Tripoli security sources. Murad Hamza, spokesman for Tripoli’s central security force, said that their fighters were informed by local […]

5th Jun 2015

Ghana: Death toll in petrol station blast in Ghana rises to 200

(Xinhua photo) ACCRA, (Xinhua): The death toll in the petrol station explosion and flood in Ghana’s capital Accra has risen to over 200, according to figures from the interior ministry Thursday. The inferno followed hours of heavy downpour in Accra that led to power outages in several communities. Most of the dead bodies had […]

5th Jun 2015

US could potential deploy missiles in Europe to deter Russia

The US is considering deploying missiles in Europe in response to an alleged nuclear treaty violation by Russia. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter will meet security officials in Stuttgart Friday ahead of a G7 summit. The United States is mulling an array of potential responses to Russia’s suspected violation of a Cold War-era nuclear treaty, […]

4th Jun 2015

Germany: Chaos breaks out at Merkel’s press conference with al-Sisi

Angela Merkel has praised Egypt’s peace efforts in the Middle East following a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi [Photo] in Berlin. The pair’s press conference was shut down after it descended into chaos. The news conference hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Wednesday came to an abrupt end after […]

3rd Jun 2015

China: 14 rescued in Yangtze sinking, over 430 missing

[Photo taken on June 2, 2015 shows the airview of the rescue site of the overturned passenger ship in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River in central China’s Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Ye Haitao)] WUHAN, (Xinhua): Fourteen people have been rescued and seven are confirmed dead more than 24 hours after a passenger ship carrying […]

3rd Jun 2015

Pakistan: Three PTI workers killed in Abbottabad

By Rashid Javed ABBOTTABAD, (Dawn): Three activists of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf were killed and two others were injured in an incident of violence related to local government elections here on Tuesday. With the latest killings, death toll in poll-related violence in Khyber Pakhunkhwa has risen to 21. According to police, supporters of a […]

3rd Jun 2015

Palestine: Israeli soldiers kidnap 17 Palestinians in W Bank, Jerusalem

[File Image] IMEMC News: Israeli soldiers kidnapped, late at night and earlier on Tuesday, at least seventeen Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including seven in East Jerusalem. The Jericho Office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that several Israeli military vehicles invaded the Ein al-Sultan refugee camp, stormed […]

3rd Jun 2015

France: US-led coalition to ramp up operations against IS

Military leaders have agreed to bolster strategic operations in Iraq against “Islamic State” militants. The decision comes after a one-day meeting in Paris of 25 countries in the US-led coalition against the terrorists. The 25 countries that make up the US-led coalition against “Islamic State” (IS) militants have pledged to ramp up their strategy […]

3rd Jun 2015

US, UN push Houthis for renewed Yemen peace talks

The US State Department has revealed it held talks with Houthi rebels in Yemen last week, pushing them to negotiate a hostage release and to discuss a solution to the conflict in Yemen. The UN has echoed the calls. On Tuesday, the US State Department revealed that it met with Houthi rebels from Yemen […]

2nd Jun 2015

Nigeria: Oil tanker explosion kills 69 in Anambra

LAGOS, (Xinhua): An oil tanker truck exploded Monday in a bus station in the southern Nigerian state of Anambra, killing at least 69 and wounding dozens of others, Nigerian Red Cross said. The petrol tanker lost control and exploded at a crowded bus station in Onitsha, the state capital, and started a huge fire […]

2nd Jun 2015

China: President Xi urges all-out rescue efforts after ship with 458 people sinks

[Photo: Rescuers work near the ship sinking site in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River on June 25. Photo taken with a mobile phone. (Xinhua)] BEIJING, (Xinhua): Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered all-out rescue efforts after a passenger ship carrying 458 people sank Monday night in the Hubei section of China’s Yangtze River. The […]

2nd Jun 2015

South Sudan expels UN aid coordinator

The United Nations has announced the expulsion of one of its deputies from South Sudan. Authorities have offered no official explanation, but the UN has pointed to the aid coordinator’s critique of the government. The South Sudanese government has decided to expel Toby Lanzer, the outspoken deputy chief of the United Nations mission to […]

1st Jun 2015

India: 2,200 dead as heatwave continues, rain relief for some areas

[A boy washing his face with chilled water for relief from scorching heat. (Bidesh Manna/HT Photo)] New Delhi, (Hindustan Times): A scorching heatwave swept large parts of the country on Sunday as the death toll in the past three weeks crossed 2,200, though rain and thunderstorms brought some respite to isolated areas with the southwest […]

1st Jun 2015

Afghanistan: 19 injured by Taliban attack on police station

[File photo: Afghan soldiers hand out supplies to Afghans who had been evicted from their villages by Taliban. US army photo] JALALABAD, (Xinhua) : Three Taliban militants were killed while 19 people wounded after militants attacked a police station in Jalalabad city, capital of eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar overnight Sunday, an official source said on […]

1st Jun 2015

Pakistan: 11 killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as poll violence continues

[Photo: Two groups are clashing during Local Government Elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. — PPI] By Ali Akbar PESHAWAR, (Dawn): Poll-related violence continues in different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Monday as 11 people were killed and several injured in Tank and Kohat districts. Last night, eight people were killed while a dozen sustained injuries […]

1st Jun 2015

US police officers kill more than two people a day

[File photo] US police have reportedly shot and killed 385 people over the past five months, a rate of more than two per day, reports the Washington Post. The figure is much higher than typical federal counts. The analysis is based on data the Washington Post newspaper is compiling on every fatal police shooting […]

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Over 120 people attended a landmark conference on the media reporting of Islam and Muslims. It was held jointly by The Muslim News and Society of Editors in London on September 15.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.