Curfew partially lifted across Saudi Arabia, except in Makkah city
RIYADH: King Salman has ordered the partial lifting of a curfew across Saudi Arabia, with the exception of the holy city of Makkah and adjacent places previously isolated after a […]
Europe unites at UN against West Bank annexation
Short Url https://arab.news/4mfmf Updated 25 April 2020 Arab News April 25, 2020 The UK is particularly concerned that demolitions have continued, including of temporary health centers, which weaken the capacity […]
Hope Turns to Doubt, Then Gunfire, as Saudi Megacity Emerges
Source: Bloomberg By Vivian Nereim April 24, 2020 When Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman unveiled plans for Neom, a futuristic megacity on the Red Sea coast, residents rejoiced. […]
Ramadan 2020 – When homes become mosques
24th April 2020 ALHAKAM.ORG Abstaining and refraining from things for our own benefit is something that sounds all too familiar in the current climate. With Ramadan now […]
Vigilant against coronavirus, Asia’s Muslims keep faith and distance as Ramadan begins
By Kate Lamb JAKARTA (Reuters) – Governments of Asian nations with large Muslim populations urged people to keep their distance while observing their faith as Islam’s fasting month of Ramadan […]
Foreign-born healthcare workers risk their lives in Western countries for victims of a virus that does not discriminate according to colour, religion
Apr 22,2020 -JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN While watching satellite television coverage of the coronavirus pandemic it is impossible to ignore that many doctors and epidemiologists consulted by the US satellite CNN channel and ,to a lesser extent, the BBC are brown or black men and women. White men in […]
Benny Gantz’s betrayal of his voters marks the ultimate end of the two-state solution
Mike Pompeo’s brief statement said it all: ‘As for the annexation of the West Bank, the Israelis ultimately make those decisions, so that’s an Israeli decision’ Robert Fisk @indyvoices 17 […]
Indonesia Bans Public Transports Starting on First Day of Ramadan
BY :HERU ANDRIYANTO APRIL 23, 2020 Jakarta. The Indonesian government bans its citizens in areas severely affected by the coronavirus outbreak from leaving for other cities and limits travels in […]
Coronavirus: President Halimah calls on Muslims to support one another and make adjustments during Ramadan
Source: StraitsTimes By Hariz Baharudin SINGAPORE – President Halimah Yacob has asked Muslims in Singapore to support each other throughout the fasting month of Ramadan, and conveyed her appreciation for […]
Indonesian Muslims brace for somber Ramadan amid pandemic restrictions
April 22, 2020 Ahmad Pathoni DEPOK, Indonesia (RNS) — During the fasting month of Ramadan, which begins this week, Muslims in this mostly Muslim country are accustomed to spending […]
Fiji chiefs and commoners divide: Fiji-Sun
By Dr. H. Koya, editor/publisher With intrusion and systematic takeover over of neighboring Australia and New Zealand in 19830-41, British has clear blue print for rest of the South Pacific specially next big island country, the Fiji Islands. Over the next 30 years a lot happens from Australia and New […]
UN food agency chief: World on brink of `a hunger pandemic’
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. food agency warned Tuesday that, as the world is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, it is also “on the brink […]
Arab countries could stop Israeli land grab
Source: Arab News By Daoud Kuttab The president’s blueprint gave Israel much of what it has long sought, including US recognition of settlements and Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley […]
This Ramadan, even non-Muslims can help their friends and neighbours through kindness and compassion
The coronavirus pandemic did not stop us from sharing our Easter, Passover, Vaisakhi and other faith greetings, says Rabina Khan. We can do the same for Muslim families This Ramadan, […]
The Coronavirus Is Empowering Islamophobes — but Exposing the Idiocy of Islamophobia
By Mehdi Hasan If anti-Semitism is the world’s oldest hatred, perhaps Islamophobia is the world’s weirdest. How else to explain the fact that a pandemic of global and historic proportions, […]
‘Guy with 100kg of flour seeking girl with 100 rolls of toilet paper’
Adnan Mahmutovic Alia Amir Ramis Orlu 8 Apr 2020 Humour helps us deal with anxiety and the current pandemic is a testament to that notion. A global pandemic is […]
Yesterday, Jews were demonised for spreading disease. Today, it’s Muslims
CJ Werleman TRT WORLD 6 days ago In countries like India and Israel Muslims are being scapegoated for the spread of Covid-19. When the Black Plague ravaged Europe in the middle of the 14th Century, killing roughly 50 percent of those infected and one-third of the continent’s […]
The pandemic deepens the sectarian divide in the Middle East
Shahram Akbarzadeh Accusations of biological aggression is distracting the region from working together to defeat Covid-19. The Covid-19 pandemic calls for urgent regional and international coordination to tackle the spread […]
Israeli professor offers alternate coronavirus prediction
Source: AT Israel professor does not believe the global approach of enforcing a lockdown to contain the coronavirus is the right solution, based on virus infection data he has analyzed. His finding shows that the coronavirus spread peaks after about 40 days and declines to almost zero after 70 days, a result that […]
China’s ‘mask diplomacy‘ wins over US blame game
Source: AT MANILA – Following high-profile deployments of medics and medical equipment to virus-hit nations in Europe and the Middle East, China is now ramping up its “face mask diplomacy” closer to home in neighboring Southeast Asia. As US politicians call for China to be held accountable for spawning the […]