A Muslim woman from Australia has told how she was forced to leave a beach in France for wearing a burkini. Zeynab Alshelh, a 23-year-old medical student, told Australian media she had travelled to Europe to show solidarity with local Muslim women. Footage broadcast on Channel 7 showed local people saying they would call the …
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Despite an ongoing ceasefire deal between warring sides in Syria, aid trucks are being prevented from entering the country by the Assad regime. Around 40 trucks of two convoys carrying mostly food and flour, set off from the Turkish border town of Cilvegözü, 40 km west of Aleppo on Tuesday, but made it little further …
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A severed pig’s head has been found outside a mosque in the city of Essen in the western Nordrhein-Westfalen region of Germany on Friday. A caretaker at the Essen Central Mosque told police he found the bloodied head when he arrived at the mosque. Consulate General of Turkey in Essen Mustafa Kemal Başa and Essen …
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Far-Right protesters blocked an ambulance reaching an injured asylum seeker after violent clashes broke out between the two groups in an east German town. Witnesses in the town of Bautzen described running street battles between teenage asylum-seekers throwing bottles and far-Right protestors shouting neo-Nazi slogans. More than 100 police officers were needed to end the …
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has criticised Israel’s prime minister for saying Palestinians want the “ethnic cleansing” of Jews in the West Bank. Benjamin Netanyahu’s use of the term in a video attacking opponents of Jewish settlement construction on occupied territory was “outrageous”, he said. Mr Ban stressed that settlements were illegal under international law. …
British Defense Ministry said it is “extremely sorry” that an Iraqi boy was allowed to drown after being forced into a river by four soldiers during the British occupation in 2003. Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali, 15, was detained on suspicion of looting an industrial compound in May 2003, shortly after the fall of the Saddam …
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An arson Wednesday night at the Ibrahim Jame Mosque on King Street East was stopped by Syrian refugees who put out the small fire and helped police catch a suspect. The attack comes on the eve of 15th anniversary of an arson attack on Hamilton’s Hindu Samaj Temple in the days after 9/11. “Witnesses in …
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Dutch anti-Muslim leader Geert Wilders said he was upset about the failure of the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, claiming any military regime is better than President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Speaking in a special session in Parliament on Tuesday, Dutch lawmakers discussed the foiled coup that killed 240 people. The Party for Freedom (PVV) …
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A Muslim woman wearing traditional garments had her clothes set on fire by a man with a lighter as she shopped on a crowded New York City street over the weekend, police said. The 35-year-old was dressed in a hijab and standing outside a Valentino store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Saturday night when …
The US will give the Israeli military $38bn over the next decade in what Washington described as the biggest package of military assistance in its history. The agreement is expected to give Israel as much as $3.8 billion a year over 10 years, more aid than the United States has ever provided to any country. …
