India: Rights groups decry release of 11 convicts in gang rape of Muslim woman, murder case
Pakistan: 20 killed in bus-tanker collision in northeast
Egypt: 41 dead in fire at Coptic church west of Cairo
Tunisia: Tunisian preacher stirs controversy over verses regarding ‘coup’
‘News is not good’: Rushdie’s agent says after author attacked on stage in New York
Greece: Dep Speaker of Parliament advocates ‘necessity’ of spying on country’s Turkish Muslim MPs
Jammu & Kashmir: 3 Indian soldiers, 2 Kashmiri militants killed in shoot-out
Palestine: Four Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in West Bank
Afghanistan: 8 killed, 18 injured in ISIS bombing at Muharram gathering
Palestine: 44 Palestinians killed incl 15 children by Israeli bombing of Gaza civilian areas
Palestine: 29 Palestinians killed, incl 6 children by Israeli indiscriminate bombing in Gaza
Palestine: Israel bombs Gaza in unprovoked attack killing 15 incl 5-year-old child
Morocco, Israel agree to enhance security cooperation
UN blames Israel’s ‘coercive measures’ for Palestinian displacements
French gov’t takes flak over deportation decision against well-known imam
Palestine: Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces in West Bank
Lebanon: Hezbollah warns Israeli gas drilling vessels within range of its missiles
Bangladeshi nationals easy targets of human trafficking gangs
Pakistan: 25 killed in rain-related accidents in 2 days as monsoon wreaks havoc
Palestine: Israeli settlers seize Palestinian home in Hebron
New Zealand’s security agencies were “almost exclusively” fixated on the risk of “Islamist terrorism” in the run-up to last year’s Christchurch mosques terror attack, ruled an inquiry
The majority of child sexual abuse gangs are made up of white men under the age of 30, according to a delayed Home Office report about the ethnicity of offenders that dispels racist smears linking most grooming to Asian men.
People in the south-east can take solace in the fact that Johnson has awarded them a six-day notice on Christmas disruption, a vast improvement on the two-hour warning afforded to Muslims for Eid al-ʾAḍḥā.
Draconian measures in the new draft law to tackle ‘separatism’, published on December 9, are directed against Muslims, and their religion yet explicitly mentions neither.
Most child sex groomers are white, says Home office research, debunking Quillan Foundation report that 84 per cent of grooming gangs are Asian “of Pakistani origin with Muslim heritage.”
Interview with British Ghanaian rugby player and The Sunday Times newly named Vitality Grassroots Sportswoman of the Year Zainab Alema
The French Government announced the dissolution of its largest anti-Islamophobia NGO, ordered raids on dozens of mosques, declared a ban on all homeschooling and shut its only Muslim school - all in the space of a fortnight
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, has hit back at claims relaxing coronavirus rules for the Christmas period could be seen as “unfair” to those forced to celebrate Eid Al-ʾAḍḥā and Diwali under strict lockdown measures.
The parents of a 10-year-old boy, thought to be one of the youngest victims of Covid-19 in the UK, have spoken of their “indescribable” pain.
The death of a Somali refugee schoolgirl who drowned in a river in Bury was an accident the coroner into her death ruled on December 4.
BAME doctors are less likely than their white peers to experience improvements in workplace teamwork during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report published on November 27.
Twenty-six Muslim women from 20 countries are featured in the BBC’s 100 Women List of the most inspiring and influential women from around the world.
Yorkshire and England cricketer Adil Rashid and community-activist uncle Javed Bashir were awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Bradford
Manchester Gorton MP Afzal Khan has announced a new Diverse Curriculum Charter for schools in his constituency.
India’s National Investigating Agency raided the house-cum-office of Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, a renowned journalist, author and activist.
An exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Alija Izetbegović has been opened in Sarajevo following a ceremony to commemorate the 17th death anniversary of the first President of an independent Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Palestinian-American Reema Dodin is to be appointed Deputy Director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, making her the first Arab American woman to hold the post and the first Arab-American in President-elect Joe Biden’s Adminstration.
Emirati royal Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan has purchased a stake of around 50 per cent in Israeli football club Beitar Jerusalem, a club notorious for ‘La Familia’ fans who chant racist, anti-Arab and Islamophobic slogans.
Kuruba Sharanappa Eshwarappa, Minister for Rural Development in the southern federal state has categorically announced that the BJP will not field a Muslim candidate for the Parliamentary by-elections.
Muslim leaders in Maryland, US, have called for a hate crime investigation after a man was assaulted in an attack believed to be part of a wider 3-year-long campaign of Islamophobic abuse targeting a family
Turkey has condemned a “racist threat message,” in north-eastern Greece written on an elevator of a flat building that is the residence of Ahmet Mete, the Mufti of Xanthi in Western Thrace, Greece.
A US federal court ruled that a Muslim inmate at Nottoway Correctional Centre in Burkeville, Virginia, can continue his lawsuit challenging the state’s prisons’ grooming policy
Non-Binary People Protected By UK Equality Act, Says Landmark Ruling Against Jaguar Land Rover
2020 was supposed to be the year where I had plans. My first year in almost a decade where I didn’t have any upcoming baby bears on the horizon, where I started building my own way into the future of my choice.
Moon of Masarrah, Sign of the Scorpion & Hour of the Oryx (Series) by Farah Zaman. 2018. Zeenatul Zaman/Book Power Publishing. 2020.
Mohamed Salah has surpassed Steven Gerrard as Liverpool’s all-time top goal scorer in the Champions League on December 9.
The 2020 Climate Ambition Summit took place in lieu of COP26, which will be hosted next year in Glasgow. The 6-hour summit gave world leaders, youth climate activists and business heads time to talk about their renewed commitments to climate action.
The UK has become the first nation to start vaccinating its citizens with the newly approved Covid-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech.
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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.