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By Servet Gunerigok WASHINGTON (AA): The largest Muslim advocacy organization in the US urged Hilton Worldwide Holdings on Tuesday to drop plans to build a hotel on the site of a bulldozed mosque in China’s Xinjiang region. The call by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) came after a report this week by the […]

13th Jun 2021

US: Journalists open letter on US bias media coverage of Palestine

By Islam Dogru NEW YORK (AA): More than 500 journalists working at US media outlets released an open letter about American media coverage of Palestine. Journalists spoke up against the narrative used by the media that “obscures the most fundamental aspects of the story: Israel’s military occupation and its system of apartheid.” “An open […]

9th Jun 2021

UN court’s Ratko Mladic genocide conviction welcomed by relatives of victims

By Talha Ozturk BELGRADE, Serbia (AA): The upholding of Ratko Mladic’s conviction for genocide and crimes against humanity on Tuesday drew praise and relief from both the international community and relatives of his victims. Mladic, also known as the “Butcher of Bosnia,” had unsuccessfully appealed his 2017 conviction at a UN court in The […]

5th Jun 2021

Rohingya urge Myanmar shadow govt to keep promise, denounce role in past

By Md. Kamruzzaman DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Members of the Rohingya community expressed a cautious response to a declaration of Policy Position on the Rohingya in Rakhine State by the National Unity Government (NUG), an anti-coup shadow government in Myanmar. The exile government that was formed in April, issued the policy on Thursday for the […]

4th Jun 2021

Palestine: Painful stories of 39 women killed by Israeli Gaza attacks

By Nour Mahd Ali Abou Aisha GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA): Thirty-nine women, mostly mothers, who were killed in the latest Israeli attacks on Gaza, left their loved ones and some painful stories behind. 254 Palestinians, including 39 women, 66 children, were killed in the Israeli attacks on Gaza, while also leaving 1,948 people injured. […]

1st Jun 2021

UN experts concerned over rights abuses in Kashmir

By Hilal Mir SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India (AA): Allegations of arbitrary detentions, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances are part of what appears to be an ongoing pattern of serious violations of human rights by Indian government forces in the Jammu and Kashmir region, according to UN experts. This concern was raised by five […]

31st May 2021

Myanmar: Muslims form multi-ethnic consultative committee

By Md. Kamruzzaman DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Muslims in Myanmar from various ethnic backgrounds have formed the Muslims of Myanmar Multi-ethnic Consultative Committee (MMMCC) to restore democracy and justice in the country and protect the legitimate rights of all Muslim ethnic groups in the country, according to official sources. The committee will work to achieve […]

25th May 2021

Palestine: Israeli forces kill two Palestinians and detain 1,550 in W Bank

JERUSALEM (AA & WAFA News Agency): Undercover Israeli soldiers known as Mista’arvim, infiltrated, on Tuesday at dawn, into Um ash-Sharayet neighborhood in the all-Biereh city, in the central West Bank governorate of Ramallah and al-Biereh, and killed a young man. Dr. Ahmad al-Betawi, the head of Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, told Palestine Radio that […]

24th May 2021

Palestine: Settler incursions into Al-Aqsa jeopardizing cease-fire

By Awad Rajoub RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Sunday warned that Israeli settler incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem risk undermining efforts to maintain a cease-fire between Palestinians and Israel and revive the peace process. Scores of Israeli settlers forced their way into the flashpoint compound under […]

23rd May 2021

Palestine: IDF bombed Gaza’s high-rises to vent frustration: Israeli pilot

By Zein Khalil JERUSALEM (AA): Israel’s bombardment of high-rise buildings in the Gaza Strip was a way to vent frustration caused by the failure to stop rocket fire from Gaza, an Israeli pilot revealed on Saturday. This comes after the cease-fire, brokered by Egypt, went into effect at 2 a.m. local time on Friday […]

19th May 2021

11 Palestinian children receiving trauma care killed in their homes by Israeli air strikes

Norwegian Refugee Council: The Norwegian Refugee Council confirmed today that 11 of over 60 children killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza over the last week were participating in its psycho-social programme aimed at helping them deal with trauma. All of the children between 5 and 15 years old were killed in their homes in densely […]

18th May 2021

Israeli warplanes destroy civilian buildings killing 212 Palestinians, incl 61 children in Gaza

By Halime Afra Aksoy GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA): Israeli warplanes destroyed a six-story building in the Gaza Strip on early Tuesday. The building in the Rimal neighborhood in western Gaza was located near a group of schools belonging to the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Assistance Agency and Islamic University of Gaza. No casualties were […]

16th May 2021

26 Palestinians, incl 5 children killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza; total killed 163

By Hacer Baser GAZA, Palestine (AA): Local media in Gaza have reported that the death count from the Israeli airstrikes on al-Wihda Street in al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City before dawn on Sunday has reached 26, at least five of whom are children. The missile strikes killed 13 members of the al-Kulk family, ranging in age […]

15th May 2021

Israeli forces kill 144 [incl 37 children] in attacks on Gaza, 11 in W Bank

By Abdelrahman Fathy Ramadan Mohamed, Gulsen Topcu and Ramzi Mahmoud GAZA, Palestine (AA): Israeli attacks on the blockaded Gaza Strip killed eight more Palestinians early Saturday, taking the death toll to 144, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Meanwhile 11 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces. The Palestinian News & Info […]

14th May 2021

Palestine: Israel kills 119, incl 28 children, 625 injured in civilian areas

By Dilan Pamuk (AA): Israel has killed as many as 28 children, 17 of whose deaths and identities have been confirmed so far, since Monday. Altogether 119 Palestinians have been killed and 625 injured according to Ministry of Health, Wafa news agency reported Friday. The Palestine branch of the Defense for Children International organization […]

13th May 2021

Palestine: Death toll of Palestinians rises to 67, incl 17 children from Israeli attacks

By Muhammed Semiz GAZA, Palestine (AA): The death toll from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza climbed to 67 Thursday, including 17 children and six women, with 388 injured. UK refused to condemn Israeli police attacks on Muslim Palestinian worshippers inside Al-Aqsa Mosque during one of the most holy nights of Ramadan, Laylatul Qadr, nor Israel’s […]

12th May 2021

Israeli forces resume attacks against Palestinians in Al-Aqsa mosque & Gaza

JERUSALEM (AA): Israeli forces on Wednesday resumed their attacks against Palestinians at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City. In addition,, Israeli warplanes on Wednesday bombed security centers and police headquarters of Palestinian resistance groups in the Gaza Strip. Dozens of bombs were dropped within a few minutes in the south, north, and central […]

11th May 2021

Violence against Palestinian worshippers ‘not acceptable,’ says Johnson

By Hamed Chapman and Ahmed J Versi London, (The Muslim News): Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has remained silent himself in the face of Israeli police firing rubber-coated metal bullets and dispensing tear gas when invading Islam’s third most holy site at al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem allowing his spokesman to condemn the military attack on […]

11th May 2021

Palestine: Israeli air raids & shelling into Gaza kills 24, incl children, 612 injured in E Jerusalem

By Hamdi Yildiz GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA): The number of those killed in attacks by Israeli forces on the Gaza Strip late on Monday rose to 24 and the wounded to 103, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. UK condemned Hamas for the retaliatory rocket attacks against Israelis, however, did not condemn attacks by […]

9th May 2021

Afghanistan: 58 Shia Muslim Hazara school girls killed in bombings in Kabul

By Merve Aydogan Kabul, Afghanistan (AA): At least 58 people, mostly Shia Muslim schoolgirls, were killed and 150 people injured in three back-to-back blasts that targeted a secondary school in Kabul. The explosions occurred as students between 11 and 15 years old, were leaving Sayed ul Shuhada High school for home at around 4.30 p.m. […]

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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.