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GAZA, (AA): Five Palestinians were killed and 25 others were injured Friday after Israeli forces opened fire at a demonstration in eastern Gaza, a medical official said. “Five Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire during clashes with Israeli forces in al-Shujaiyeh neighborhood east of Gaza City,” Ashraf Al-Qedra, spokesman of the Gazan Ministry of Health, said. […]

11th Oct 2015

Palestine: Israeli bombs kill pregnant woman, her 2-year old child

IMEMC & Agencies: A Palestinian mother who was five months pregnant was killed along with her child, on Sunday at dawn, while at least four other family members were injured, after the Israeli Air Force bombarded the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said the woman, Nour Rasmi Hassan, 30, […]

11th Oct 2015

Turkey: 95 killed in blasts at Ankara train station

ANKARA (AA): At least 95 people have been killed and 246 others wounded in Saturday’s twin bombings that targeted a peace rally in Turkish capital Ankara, the prime minister’s office has said. Forty-eight people remain in intensive care, according a statement from the Prime Ministry Coordination Center late Saturday. Fifty-two of those who were killed have been […]

10th Oct 2015

Morocco: UN announces proposed Libya unity government

SKHIRAT, Morocco (AA): Special envoy Bernardino Leon on Friday announced a UN proposal for a Libyan unity government. The measure announced in the Moroccan city of Skhirat comes after four years of political turmoil in the North African nation. “This is a proposal from the United Nations,” said Leon. “This is not a proposal that the members of the dialogue have […]

10th Oct 2015

China: At least 10 miners trapped in east China

BEIJING (AA): A gas explosion at a coal mine in China’s eastern Jiangxi province has left at least 10 miners trapped, state media reported Saturday. State news agency Xinhua cited Jiangxi’s coal mine safety supervision department as saying the miners were under the pit when the accident occurred in Shangrao county at around 10 p.m. […]

10th Oct 2015

Turkey: Dozens of casualties in blasts at Ankara train station

ANKARA (AA): Two explosions hit Ankara train station Saturday morning leaving dozens of people dead and injured, according to sources. An Anadolu Agency correspondent at the scene said there were bodies and wounded people lying in front of the station on Hipodrum Street, where people had started to arrive for a peace rally in Ankara. Emergency services […]

9th Oct 2015

Palestine: Israel allow only men above 50 to pray in Al Aqsa Mosque

IMEMC News & Agencies: After Palestinian activists and political factions called for a day of protest against Israeli violations, the Israeli government decided to close Jerusalem, and only allow Palestinian men who are above 50 to pray on Friday at the Al Aqsa mosque. The recent wave of clashes erupted over a week ago, as […]

9th Oct 2015

Palestine: Israeli settlers attack Palestinian communities

IMEMC News & Agencies: Palestinian sources reported Israeli settlers’ attacks on Thursday night all over the West Bank and closed roads connecting villages and cities. In the southern Hebron hells village of Sousyia, a group of radical Israeli settlers attacked residents homes with stones casing damage to a number of house. The settlers tried […]

9th Oct 2015

Kosovo: Opposition MPs throw tear gas in Parliament

PRISTINA (AA): Kosovo opposition MPs threw tear gas canisters in Parliament on Thursday to protest the latest EU-brokered agreements between Kosovo and Serbia. Opposition MPs first blew whistles and threw water at the speakers, but would succeed in ending the session just after throwing tear gas canisters on the assembly floor. “As we have warned, this government has just […]

8th Oct 2015

Israel: Palestinian teen killed after allegedly snatching Israeli soldier’s weapon

IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli sources have reported, Wednesday, that a young Palestinian identified as Hatem Al-Jundi (17) years from Yatta was shot dead allegedly after he snatched a weapon of an Israeli soldier in Kiryat Gat, south of Tel Aviv, and ran into a nearby building. Israeli Ynet News said the soldier struggled with […]

8th Oct 2015

US: Turkish scientist among Nobel Prize chemistry laureates

ANKARA (AA): A Turkish scientist was among three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their work on DNA repair. Dr. Aziz Sancar, of the University of North Carolina in the U.S., was honored alongside Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich, according to the Nobel committee’s website. Sancar, who is from the southeastern town of Savar, Mardin province, […]

8th Oct 2015

Afghanistan: Obama apologises to aid group for deadly airstrike

WASHINGTON (AA) : President Barack Obama apologized to Doctors Without Borders International President Joanne Liu during a phone call Wednesday morning, following a deadly strike on one of the group’s medical facilities in Afghanistan. Obama “assured Dr. Liu that the Department of Defense investigation currently underway would provide a transparent, thorough and objective accounting of the […]

7th Oct 2015

Kenya: Muslim scholars detained allegation of radicalising Muslims

By Magdalene Mukami NAIROBI, (AA): Kenyan police were given five days on Tuesday to produce evidence against 12 Muslim clerics, local media reported. The Anti-Terror Police Unit had requested 14 days to question the men, who were arrested Sunday on suspicion of radicalizing and recruiting youths to join the al-Shabab militant group. Magistrate Dancun […]

7th Oct 2015

Syria: Russian bombs kill children in Anadan

ANKARA (AA): Two children were killed in Russian airstrikes on a Syrian town on Tuesday, health workers said. The attacks on a residential area of Anadan, to the northwest of Aleppo, left many civilians injured, according to medical staff at a local field hospital. Anadan lies in a region where Daesh is fighting opposition groups. Russia, […]

7th Oct 2015

Nigeria: Dozens killed in clashes between soldiers & Boko Haram

LAGOS (AA): At least nine soldiers and over 50 Boko Haram militants have died in heavy fighting in northeastern Nigeria, according to army sources speaking to Anadolu Agency. Insurgents attacked Goniri village in northeastern Yobe state in the early hours of Monday, a senior army source claimed. A brigadier-general, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: […]

6th Oct 2015

Palestine: Palestinian child shot dead by Israeli forces

JERUSALEM (AA): A Palestinian child has died after being shot by Israeli forces, according to local media. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement Monday that Abd al-Rahman Mustafa, 13, died after being shot in the stomach. According to the Palestinian Ma’an news agency, the boy was shot during overnight clashes between Palestinian youth […]

5th Oct 2015

Palestine: Palestinian teen killed in clashes near Tulkarem

IMEMC & Agencies: On Sunday at night, a Palestinian teen identified as Hotheifa Othman Suleiman, 18 years of age, died of a serious injury he suffered earlier when Israeli soldiers shot him in the abdomen, during clashes that took place near the Nitzani roadblock, west of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem. Eyewitnesses […]

5th Oct 2015

Afghanistan: US Kunduz hospital bombing deaths increase to 22

ANKARA (AA): The death toll from Saturday’s bombing of a hospital in northern Afghanistan has risen to 22, operator Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said Sunday. “It is 12 MSF staff members and 10 patients, including three children, who were killed in the attack,” MSF General Director Christopher Stokes, said. On Saturday, MSF had said that at […]

5th Oct 2015

Thailand: 3 shot dead in Muslim majority south

By CS Thana BANGKOK (AA): Three people have been shot dead by suspected insurgents in Thailand’s Muslim south, an official confirmed Sunday. An official from the army’s Internal Security Operations Command, who requested anonymity due to ongoing investigations, told Anadolu Agency that the shootings left two soldiers and the father of a suspected insurgent dead. […]

4th Oct 2015

Nigeria: Bomb blasts kill 15 in Abuja

LAGOS, (AA): Multiple bomb blasts – including a suicide attack on a police station – have killed at least 15 people in Nigeria’s capital. A spokesman for the country’s NEMA relief agency said the Friday-night blasts in Nyanya and Kuje – outlying regions of Nigeria’s federal capital area – had also injured 41 people. He […]

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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.