Burkina Faso: Armed attackers kill 50 civilians
Senegal: Fire at hospital kills 11 newborns: President Macky Sall
US: 18 students, 3 adults killed in Texas school shooting
Palestine: 96 Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa complex, Israel demolish Ibrahimi mosque staircase
India: Hindu right-wing claims on monuments, historic mosques raise fears
Palestine: Palestinian killed by Israeli army by being shot with 11 rounds
Turkey pledges support to boost Pakistan’s military infrastructure
Russia-Islamic World: Kazan Summit 2022 kicks off
France: Minister calls for ban of burkini
Algerian lawmakers seek to criminalize normalization with Israel
Palestine: Israeli police attack funeral of Palestinian youth, injuring 71 in Jerusalem
Burkina Faso: 43 dead in weekend attacks across the country
Pakistan: Suicide blast kills 6, including 3 children, in NW Pakistan
Palestine: Israeli police attack mourners carrying Abu Akleh’s body during funeral procession
Sweden: Danish far-right leader burns Qur’an under police protection
Palestine: Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israeli forces in West Bank
Palestine: 50 Palestinians killed by Israel this year
Ukraine says all women, children, elderly evacuated from Mariupol plant
Palestine: Israeli settlers torch Palestinians vehicles, vandalize property in West Bank
By Shuriah Niazi NEW DELHI (AA): The government of India’s southern state of Karnataka on Tuesday announced the closure of all high schools and colleges for the next three days as a row continues over the wearing of the … Continued
By Shuriah Niazi NEW DELHI (AA): Another hijab row broke out in the southern Indian state of Karnataka after Muslim students were not allowed to enter a government college for wearing a headscarf. This is the second college in … Continued
By Yusuf Ozcan PARIS (AA): The French region of Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes suspended subsidies for a street-art festival in Grenoble because of a mural of a woman wearing a hijab. The region said in a statement that the mural was “provocative” … Continued
By Adam Abu-bashal ABUJA, Nigeria (AA): Nigeria’s Kwara state on Tuesday reaffirmed its stance of allowing Muslim girls to wear the hijab in public schools, saying it will not tolerate any form of religious bigotry at educational institutions. In … Continued
By Shweta Desai PARIS (AA): French lawmakers have voted in favor of an amendment prohibiting the wearing of the hijab at sporting events, resulting in the exclusion of Muslim female athletes from competitive field sports. During a discussion on … Continued
By Ahmad Adil NEW DELHI (AA): A group of Muslim students at a college in the southern Indian state of Karnataka have been prevented from attending classes for weeks after their principal refused to let them wear the hijab … Continued
By Shweta Desai PARIS (AA): A young Muslim student accused France’s foremost legal institution of Islamophobia after being threatened with expulsion from an oath ceremony for wearing a headscarf. Graduating lawyer Sara, who only revealed her first name, told … Continued
By Busra Nur Cakmak ANKARA (AA): EU’s top court has ruled that companies in the member states can ban employees from wearing a headscarf if they “need to present neutral image towards customers.” The European Court of Justice (CJEU) … Continued
By Askin Kiyagan VIENNE (AA): The Constitutional Court in Austria on Friday declared “unconstitutional” and “discriminatory” the ban on headscarves in primary schools and annulled the decision taken by the far-right government in 2019. The law prevented girls younger than … Continued
By Cuneyt Karadag BERLIN (AA):The capital Berlin’s ban on teachers who are wearing headscarves is unconstitutional, a top German court ruled Thursday. A Muslim teacher who was not allowed to teach in Berlin state schools because she wore a … Continued
By Barry Ellsworth TRENTON, Canada (AA): The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) filed on Friday a challenge to Quebec’s controversial religious symbols law with Canada’s top court. Also joining in the challenge were the Canadian Civil Liberties Association … Continued
By Barry Ellsworth TRENTON, Canada (AA): The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) announced Wednesday that it will seek to challenge Quebec’s controversial ban on religious symbols at the Supreme Court of Canada. This comes six days after the … Continued
By Serife Cetin BRUSSELS (AA): A court in Belgium ruled in favor of a schoolgirl and against the headscarf ban in the Flemish Region of the country. The school which the student had filed a case against is affiliated … Continued
By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, Nigeria (AA): Nigeria’s headscarf crisis festered Friday after footage emerged online of school guards and teachers ordering Muslim girls to remove their headscarves before entering a school compound in the southwestern town of Ibadan. The … Continued
By Barry Ellsworth TRENTON, Canada (AA): The Quebec province passed its controversial religious symbols ban and critics say the government stuck in an amendment that creates “secular police,” Canadian media reported Monday. Bill 21 contains a clause that calls for … Continued
By Yusuf Ozcan PARIS (AA): France’s upper house of the parliament on Thursday adopted a bill that prohibits mothers from wearing headscarf while accompanying the students on school trips. The bill was presented in the country’s senate by the … Continued
By Askin Kiyagan VIENNA, Austria: An independent member of Austria’s parliament wore a headscarf during her general assembly speech Wednesday to protest the banning of the religious head covering in primary schools as Austrian MPs approved a law aimed at banning … Continued
By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, Nigeria (AA): Muslim parents on Monday sued Nigeria’s premier university of Ibadan after a school owned by the varsity barred 11 Muslim girls from wearing their religious head covering in their classrooms. The case was … Continued
By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, Nigeria (AA): Shutting out Muslim girls from school for wearing headscarves amounts to unacceptable religious bigotry and a violation of the Constitution, Nigeria’s apex Muslim body said on Saturday, a day after nine pupils were … Continued
By Seyit Aydogan TORONTO (AA): A top court in Canada’s Quebec province has ruled in favor of a woman after a judge told her Muslim headscarf violated the rules of courtroom modesty. On February 2015, Rania El-Alloul was told … Continued
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.