Coronavirus alert: Rare syndrome seen in UK children
Source: BBC By Michelle Roberts An urgent alert sent out to GPs said that intensive care departments in London and other parts of the UK have been treating severely sick […]
Italy bishops scold government for excluding Mass from lockdown easing
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Italy’s Roman Catholic Church has reprimanded the government for not allowing the faithful to return to Masses at the start of a gradual staged end to Europe’s longest coronavirus lockdown. Masses have been banned since early March when Italy closed most commercial activities apart from essentials. […]
New Zealand claims ‘elimination’ of coronavirus with new cases in single digits
(CNN) New Zealand claimed Monday it had “eliminated” the coronavirus as the country announced the easing of restrictions from “level four” to “level three,” with new cases in single figures. […]
Exclusive: She’s been falsely accused of starting the coronavirus. Her life has been turned upside down
Source: BBC Maatje Benassi, a US Army reservist and mother of two, has become the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely place her at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, […]
New York hospitals are studying a common heartburn drug as treatment for Covid-19
(CNN) Hospitals in New York are giving Covid-19 patients heartburn medicine to see if it helps fight the virus, according to the doctor who initiated the trial. Preliminary results of the clinical […]
Coalition seeks end to escalation in Yemen, urges return to Riyadh deal
Arab News Monday . April 27, 2020 Short Url https://arab.news/zem9d The STC scrapped its agreement with the Hadi government last weekend RIYADH: The Saudi-led Arab Coalition supporting Yemen’s UN-recognized […]
Yemen crisis deepens as separatists declare self-governance
By AFP – Apr 26,2020 – JORDAN TIMES ADEN — Yemeni separatists early Sunday declared self-rule of the country’s south as a peace deal with the government crumbled, complicating a […]
What if Covid-19 isn’t our biggest threat?
by Andrew Anthony, The Guardian When eventually the coronavirus crisis begins to recede and we return to an approximation of normality – no matter how socially distanced or how much […]
26 million job losses prove a sad fact about American businesses — and American people
What is remarkable is how quickly the bonds of employer and employee are severed in the American economy, and how quickly businesses — but not their employees — get handouts […]
In the UK, white immigration is an asset – while everyone else is undesirable
Source: Independent These laws have been racialised since their inception, argues Afua Hirsch. There’s a reason only some nationalities are seen as unthreatening to British identity A conversation that has […]
1984 Rare TV Interview With Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens)
Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Pulitzer Prize Winner, Garry Wills Talks About the Quran for 50 Minutes A Nobel for Karen Armstrong will bring the […]
The success of a Covid-19 vaccine will hinge on its delivery
Source: Stat News The lesson learned from a long history of using vaccines to fight massively disruptive diseases like smallpox and Ebola is that the vaccine itself is not enough. Like a good punch line, it’s all about the delivery. The smallpox vaccine was an average one with a limited […]
Saudi Arabia and China sign $265m deal to fight coronavirus
Source: Arab News BGI will provide the equipment for conducting 9,000,000 COVID-19 tests 50,000 daily tests will be conducted in six new regional labs JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia and China have […]
80% mosques in Punjab violate govt-Ulema agreement on Taraweeh
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: Dawn ISLAMABAD: A survey has shown that more […]
Editorial: It is inflammatory for Tariq Jameel to claim that women should be blamed for a global pandemic
Source: Dawn WELL-KNOWN cleric Maulana Tariq Jameel has made a disturbing assertion that Covid-19 has been unleashed on humanity because of the ‘wrongdoing of women’. During a televised prayer, the maulana condemned […]
Book Review: The Conference of the Birds
Book by Farid ud-Din Attar (Author) in Persian Book translated by: Dick Davis, who is currently professor of Persian at Ohio State University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of […]
The Spiritual Life of the Peacock
Source: Wall Street Journal By Nic Rowan St. Anthony described the birds as purified by tribulation, then adorned with virtue. On a summer afternoon a few years ago, Lisa Schubert […]
Everything we know about Neom, a ‘mega-city’ project in Saudi Arabia with plans for flying cars and robot dinosaurs
Source: Business Insider By Bill Bostock Saudi Arabia is building a futuristic mega-city called Neom deep in a desert bordering the Red Sea. The state has pledged at least $500 […]
Saudi Arabia is responsible for the slow death of the kingdom’s Nelson Mandela
By Abdullah Alaoudh April 25, 2020 Abdullah Alaoudh is a senior fellow in the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Abdullah al-Hamid, Saudi Arabia’s most prominent intellectual and […]
Ahmadiyya community announce virtual Iftar during quarantine
By Orlando Jenkinson Lando_j Reporter – Kingston, Elmbridge & Epsom South London and Surrey’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community announced plans for a virtual Big Iftar meal to mark Ramadan during […]