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By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA): Anti-terror teams arrested two men, one in Withington area and another elsewhere in Manchester Thursday morning in connection with a suicide bombing that killed 22 victims in the Manchester terror attack, according to authorities. UK has now stopped sharing intelligence information on Manchester bombing with the US after […]

25th May 2017

US intelligence leak ‘undermines’ UK bomb investigation

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA): British security officials on Wednesday slammed U.S intelligence services for leaking details of a major investigation launched in the U.K. into a deadly bombing in Manchester. Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to raise concerns over the leaking of intelligence about the Manchester bomb attack to the US […]

24th May 2017

UK raises terror threat to ‘critical’, soldiers deployed at key locations

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA): The terror threat level in the U.K. has been raised from ‘severe’ to ‘critical’, Prime Minister Theresa May said late Tuesday. Soldiers will be placed at key locations, including at Buckingham Palace, Palace of Westminster, Embassies and Downing Street, under Metropolitan Police control, police announced Wednesday. The suicide […]

23rd May 2017

UK: 22 dead, 59 injured at Manchester concert suicide attack

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA): At least 22 people were killed and dozens more injured, including children Monday in a suicide attack at a concert by pop star Ariana Grande in the northern city of Manchester, police confirmed Monday evening. Approximately 59 people were injured at the Manchester Arena to see American singer […]

10th May 2017

UK: Labour Party launches election campaign

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA): U.K. opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn used his Labour Party’s general election campaign launch on Tuesday to accuse the ruling Conservatives of “holding the country back”. Corbyn was speaking in Manchester where former Labour cabinet minister Andy Burnham was recently elected as the city’s first metro mayor — a […]

28th Apr 2017

UK: Woman shot, 4 arrested in terror raids

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA): Police officers shot one woman and detained 4 other individuals Thursday evening in anti-terror raids in London and Kent, according to police. Officers say the operation was not connected to the earlier arrest of a man near Parliament. The woman in her twenties was shot after officers entered […]

28th Apr 2017

UK: Man with knives arrested near Parliament

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA): London police have arrested an individual near Parliament with “knives” under the terrorism act, a statement said Thursday. No one was injured in the incident. A statement from Scotland Yard said a man was stopped and searched and was arrested after the discovery of weapons. “The man, aged […]

24th Apr 2017

UK’s far-right party, UKIP, focuses on niqab & Sharia ban in election campaign

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA): The far-right UK Independence Party (UKIP) said it would pursue a ban on niqab in their party manifesto, which is expected to be published on Monday, according to the party leader on Sunday. Paul Nuttal told BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show the party will also target Sharia rule […]

19th Apr 2017

UK: PM May announced to hold snap general election in June

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA): The U.K. will hold a snap general election on June 8, Prime Minister Theresa May announced Tuesday. “It is a recent and reluctant decision,” May said in an urgent statement that followed a routine Cabinet meeting. “I will move a motion in the parliament tomorrow.” Underlining the opposition […]

30th Mar 2017

UK: Hundreds show unity in Westminster Bridge vigil

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA): Hundreds of people came together on London’s Westminster Bridge to hold a minute of silence to remember the victims of last week’s terror attack that killed 4 people. Representatives of police, emergency workers and communities from different religious background met on the bridge to condemn terrorism and laid […]

30th Mar 2017

UK triggers Article 50, officially starts Brexit

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA): The U.K. government on Wednesday officially began the process of leaving the EU, more than nine months after the electorate voted for Brexit. A letter from Prime Minister Theresa May was sent to EU leaders, formally asking the union to implement the start of exit talks and ending […]

26th Mar 2017

UK: London terror attack suspect acted alone says police

By Inci Gundag LONDON (AA): London police late Saturday said the suspect appeared to have acted alone in Wednesday’s terror attack outside the U.K. parliament that killed four people and injured dozens. Neil Basu, deputy assistant Metropolitan police commissioner, said the attack lasted a mere 82 seconds before Khalid Masood was shot to death. […]

27th Mar 2017

UK: WINNERS: The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2017

UK: The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event was held 27 March 2017 in London to acknoweldge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society. Alhambra Award for Excellence in ARTS: For achievement in the fine art, performing art or architecture. Winner: Shahida Ahmed Presented by: Rt. Hon Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of […]

24th Mar 2017

UK: Thousands hold vigil for London terror victims

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA): Thousands of mourners filled Trafalgar Square on Thursday for a vigil for the victims killed in a terror attack in the British capital the previous day. MPs and members of the Metropolitan Police were among those who held lit candles in honor of the victims. Amongst those remembered […]

23rd Mar 2017

UK: 5 die, assailant killed in Westminster ‘terror attack’

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA):- At least five people were killed Wednesday and 40 others injured in a terror attack in U.K.’s capital, British police confirmed. Several people have been arrested linked to the Westminster terror attack in a raid in Edgebaston, Birmingham. The car involved in the attack was hired in Birmingham. […]

21st Mar 2017

UK Govt announces ban on laptops and ipads in airlines from Muslim majority countries

London: The UK Government has announced ban on laptops and ipads in cabins of airlines flying from a selected number of Muslim majority countries. The list of the countries and airlines affected by the ban are included in the statement below. UK Government’s full statement: “The safety and security of the travelling public is our […]

14th Mar 2017

UK parliament paves way for Brexit

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA): The U.K. parliament’s upper house Monday night passed the bill to trigger the country’s exit from the European Union. The House of Lords passed the EU Withdrawal Bill without the proposed amendments, which had been overturned by the lower House of Commons earlier in the day. This paves […]

9th Mar 2017

Palestine: Palestine leader meets UK foreign secretary in Ramallah

RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday met with U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson at Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. According to Palestine’s official WAFA news agency, Abbas briefed Johnson on “recent developments in the Palestinian territories”. The Palestinian president, the news agency reported, “also reiterated the illegality […]

31st Jan 2017

UK: Britons protest Trump’s Muslim travel ban

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA): Thousands of demonstrators marched Monday in the British capital and in other cities across the country to protest U.S. President Donald Trump who recently banned immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries and halted the American refugee program. Protesters demanded Prime Minister Theresa May cancel a yet to be scheduled […]

29th Jan 2017

UK Govt ‘does not agree’ with Trump Muslim refugee ban

LONDON (AA): British Prime Minister Theresa May “does not agree” with U.S. President Donald Trump’s Muslim refugee ban and will make representations if it hits Britons, according to a government spokesman. The statement reported by the Press Association came shortly after May’s return from Turkey, following her trip to the White House as the first […]

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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.