Former chief rabbi Lord Sacks’ wisdom was without equal, says Charles

November 8, 2020 Article

The Prince of Wales has paid tribute to former chief rabbi Lord Sacks, describing him as a leader whose “wisdom, scholarship and humanity were without equal”. Lord Sacks died on Saturday aged 72. He served as the chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, the figurehead of British Jews, for 22 years, […]

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First plane carrying Israeli tourists lands in UAE after deal

November 8, 2020 Article

The first flight carrying Israeli tourists to the United Arab Emirates landed in the city-state of Dubai on Sunday – the latest sign of the normalisation deal reached between the two nations. FlyDubai flight No. FZ8194 landed at Dubai International Airport just after 5.40pm, bringing the tourists to the city after a roughly three-hour trip. […]

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Lord Sugar to Donald Trump: You’re fired!

November 8, 2020 Article

Lord Alan Sugar has given President Donald Trump his marching orders after former vice president Joe Biden clinched victory in the nail-biting US election. Democratic candidate Mr Biden won the key battleground of Pennsylvania on Saturday – some four days after polls closed – pushing him over the 270 electoral college votes threshold. However Mr […]

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French Muslims protect church in gesture of peace after Nice attack

November 6, 2020 Article

A group of French Muslims decided to stand guard outside their town’s cathedral to protect it and show solidarity with Catholic churchgoers. Muslim residents in the southern French town of Lodeve organised the initiative as a gesture of peace after a deadly Islamic extremist attack on a church in the French city of Nice. They […]

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Network of Khatme Nabuwat Supporters Involved in Anti-Macron Protests

November 5, 2020 Article

On the 30th of October, a rally of about a hundred protestors rounded on the French Embassy in Central London and conducted a ‘sit-in’ around the bounds of the Embassy. The demonstrators, it seems, had traveled to London to shower the Embassy with chants and raised fists in the air. It was a show of […]

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Taxi driver abused and asked if he would ‘behead’ passenger

November 4, 2020 Article

Derbyshire Police are investigating an Islamophobic hate crime after a taxi driver was abused by...

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Vienna attacker had previous terrorism conviction

November 3, 2020 Article

Five people including an assailant have died and 17 others are wounded after a shooting in the heart of Vienna hours before a coronavirus lockdown started, Austrian authorities said. The dead attacker was a 20-year-old Austrian-North Macedonian dual national who had a previous terror conviction. Two men and two women died from their injuries after […]

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Former Malaysia PM Mahathir refuses to apologise for France attack comments

October 31, 2020 Article

Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad defends his widely condemned comments on attacks by Muslim extremists in France, saying that they were taken out of context as he criticised Twitter and Facebook for removing his posts. The 95-year-old sparked widespread outrage when he wrote on his blog on Thursday that “Muslims have a right to be […]

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New arrest by French investigators probing church attack in Nice

October 30, 2020 Article

Detectives investigating an attack by a Tunisian man who killed three people in a Nice church have a second suspect in custody, as France heightens its security alert amid religious and geopolitical tensions around cartoons mocking the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. Tunisian anti-terrorism authorities have opened an investigation into an online claim that the attack was […]

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Gardaí investigate after the far-right target mosque

October 28, 2020 Article

Gardaí (Irish police) are investigating after a far-right group holding a banner targeted Ballyhaunis Mosque...

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