VE-Day showed writing was on wall for fight against Japan, veteran remembers

May 8, 2020 Article

A Second World War veteran has told of the “wonderful” moment he learned about victory in Europe, while he was still in action in China. Bill Ramage was called to service in August 1942, before being deployed as an RAF wireless operator in the China and India. It took him six weeks from leaving docks […]

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Far-right terrorist, 26, who admitted possessing explosives and bomb-making document had a long history of online hate

May 6, 2020 Article

A Polish national who pleaded guilty to terror offences, had a long history of sharing...

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Israeli billionaire conjures water out of thin air in parched Gaza

May 6, 2020 Article

A Georgian-Israeli billionaire has found an innovative solution to the Gaza Strip’s chronic water crisis. Michael Mirilashvili wants to deliver hundreds of generators that produce drinking water out of thin air. His company, Watergen, sent a machine to a Gaza hospital last week in a rare case of Israeli-Palestinian co-operation in the Hamas-ruled enclave. Gaza’s […]

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Police in New York interrupt Jewish funeral amid coronavirus concerns

May 1, 2020 Article

Tensions between police and members of New York City’s Hasidic Jewish community have flared up again after a crowded funeral procession was interrupted by officers. Video posted on social media showed officers in protective masks chasing a minivan through Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighbourhood as it carried the body of a deceased rabbi. The officers can […]

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Islamic State supporters jailed for sending money for fighters

April 30, 2020 Article

Two “committed” supporters of the so-called Islamic State group have been handed substantial jail sentences for sending thousands of pounds to help fighters in Iraq. Ayub Nurhussein, 29, and Said Mohammed, 30, admitted funding terrorism by transferring £2,700 in three instalments via Denmark between April and July last year. Chicken shop delivery worker Nurhussein, of […]

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How the far-right weaponised a clip of the call to prayer to spread hate on Twitter

April 29, 2020 Article

A trial public broadcast of the Islamic call to prayer (the adhan, azaan) in West...

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Coronavirus: Canterbury Mosque members donate 2,000 meals to key workers and raise £400 for PPE

April 28, 2020 Article

Members of Canterbury Mosque in Kent have donated over 1,000 hot meals of fish and...

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Women who ‘travelled to Syria to join IS’ fighting removal of UK citizenship

April 28, 2020 Article

Two British-born women who allegedly travelled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group are mounting an appeal against the Government’s decision to revoke their citizenship. The women – who are of British-Bangladeshi heritage, and known as C3 and C4 for legal reasons – are being held with their young children in “appalling conditions” […]

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Key workers remembered in silent tributes across Northern Ireland

April 28, 2020 Article

Silences in memory of key workers who have lost their lives in the coronavirus pandemic have been held across Northern Ireland. The acts of tribute were particularly poignant in hospitals where health workers thought of fallen colleagues. More than 100 healthcare staff have died with Covid-19, including Pat McManus, 60, a nurse from Co Tyrone […]

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Spain probes how ex-rapper ‘IS fighter’ slipped into Europe

April 25, 2020 Article

Spanish police who arrested a former London rapper allegedly turned fighter for so-called Islamic State in Syria, say they have no evidence he was planning an attack in Europe, but his illegal entry raises suspicions about his motivation. Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, whose father was convicted in the US of involvement in al Qaida bombings, was […]

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