Pakistan Calls Off Limits On Mosque Attendance In Time For Ramadan
Source: NPR By Diaa Hadid, who chiefly covers Pakistan and Afghanistan for NPR News. She is based in NPR’s bureau in Islamabad. There, Hadid and her team were awarded a […]
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 […]
Fasting and Prayers above the Arctic Circle, in Alaska, Russia, Norway and Sweden
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The sun sets for the last time over Barrow, Alaska. On the 18th of November, 2016 at […]
Coronavirus: First patients injected in UK vaccine trial
Source: BBC The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford. Two volunteers were injected, the first of more than 800 people recruited for […]
Gilead antiviral drug remdesivir flops in first trial
Source: Financial Times A potential antiviral drug for the coronavirus has flopped in its first randomised clinical trial, disappointing scientists and investors who had high hopes for remdesivir, according to […]
Worst UK slump in ‘centuries’ looms as lockdown slams business
Arab News Thursday . April 23, 2020 The UK economy should recover its pre-coronavirus growth pattern once the pandemic is over, but it could take time, a British central […]
How to celebrate Earth Day 2020 online
Epigraph: The sun and the moon run their courses according to a fixed reckoning. And the stemless plants and the trees humbly submit to His will. And the heaven He […]
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 […]
Why I will confidently bet on Remdesivir and Favipiravir at the present time
There is new information available since the writing of this article: Gilead antiviral drug remdesivir flops in first trial Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times […]
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 […]
No faithful, no cash: Lockdown proves critical for German mosques
Apr 21, 2020 – swissinfo.ch By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) – Mosques in Germany that depend on donations from Friday prayers face bankruptcy as the coronavirus lockdown strips them […]
I’m glad the pubs might be closed until Christmas. This isn’t the national tragedy you think it is
Our tendency to peddle quaint myths positioning these venues as ‘robust British values’ is ridiculous. We don’t need them half as much as we need more family-friendly establishments Jane Fae […]
Do Americans Want Their President to be Saint or Sinner?
Americans care more about having a moral, ethical president than about having a religious president The character of the person who occupies the Oval Office matters to the vast majority […]
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 […]
Muslim Azaan to be broadcast in Minneapolis neighborhood, USA
Muslim call to prayer to be broadcast in Minneapolis neighborhood The Muslim call to prayer will be broadcast the traditional five times a day in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, […]
Cyprus among 20 countries to get Avigan anti-flu drug, for Covid 19 patients
Source: Financial Mirror Cyprus is included in the list of 20 countries that will receive the Avigan anti-flu drug for hospital patients being treated for coronavirus, the Ministry of Health […]
More Good News on Remdesivir’s Power to Treat COVID-19
Source: USA News BY ROBERT PREIDT, HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, April 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Preliminary data from two clinical trials using the antiviral drug remdesivir to treat COVID-19 patients […]
Israel to seize Palestinian land near Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque
Palestinians denounce move to expropriate West Bank land, as final approval for the plan lies with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu By MEE staff Published date: 21 April 2020 […]
UK. Nurse shortage causes Nightingale hospital to turn away patients
Sarah Marsh and Denis Campbell 12 hrs ago Dozens of patients with Covid-19 have been turned away from the NHS Nightingale hospital in London because it has too few nurses to treat them, the Guardian can reveal. The disclosure comes amid a growing belief among hospital management in […]