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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Two arrested over wartime killing of 78 civilians

October 27, 2020 Article

Two people have been detained in Bosnia on suspicion of taking part in the killing of at least 78 civilians during the 1992-95 war. The two men were apprehended in Banja Luka, the main town in the Bosnian Serb-run part of the country, according to the prosecutor’s office. They are suspected of crimes against humanity […]

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Pope names first black American cardinal

October 25, 2020 Article

Pope Francis has named 13 new cardinals, including Washington DC Archbishop Wilton Gregory.He will become the first Black US prelate to earn the coveted red hat. In a surprise announcement from his studio window to faithful standing below in St Peter’s Square, Francis said the churchmen will be elevated to a cardinal’s rank in a […]

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Children among dead in Kabul bombing

October 24, 2020 Article

A suicide attack in Afghanistan’s capital has killed at least 10 people and wounded 20 others, including schoolchildren, the interior ministry said. The explosion struck outside an education centre in a heavily Shiite neighbourhood of western Kabul. Interior ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said the attacker was trying to enter the centre when he was stopped […]

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Risk of being exposed to Covid-19 ‘100 times greater than four months ago’

October 23, 2020 Article

The risk of being exposed to Covid-19 is now 100 times greater than it was four months ago, the Department of Health has warned. Deputy chief medical officer Dr Heather Burns appealed for people to stay at home and adhere to public health guidance as the country’s incident rate exceeded 300 per 100,000 population for […]

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