US Republican candidate: ‘I’m pushing to put (Islam) on trial’
Source: Arab News By Epherm Kossaify NEW YORK: At first, the Republican Party of Iowa was quick to distance itself from Rick Phillips, a Republican candidate for the state’s 2nd […]
Top economist: US coronavirus response is like ‘third world’ country
Source: The Guardian Joseph Stiglitz attacks Donald Trump, saying US on course for second Great Depression Donald Trump’s botched handling of the Covid-19 crisis has left the US looking like […]
Prince Charles pays respects to the Muslim NHS workers who died treating coronavirus patients in video marking the start of Ramadan
By Sophie Tanno For Mailonline Prince Charles has paid his respects to Muslim NHS workers who have lost their lives on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. […]
Canadians Share Why They Did Or Didn’t Remove A Parent From A Care Home
Source: The Huffington Post By Al Donato Here’s how two Ontarians answered, “Should I bring my parent home?” “Please don’t let her get sick when she can’t see me.” Tara […]
The Dalai Lama on Earth Day: COVID-19 is ‘a lesson in universal responsibility’
Source: Religion News Service (RNS) — On this 50th anniversary of Earth Day, our planet is facing one of the greatest challenges to the health and well-being of its people. […]
Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying of strokes
Source: Washington Post Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead. Some didn’t even know they were infected. Thomas Oxley wasn’t even on call the day he received the page to come to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. There weren’t enough doctors […]
CNN’s Sanjay Gupta: Race For a Vaccine
He signed up for a coronavirus vaccine trial using a method that’s never been used in humans. Here’s why. (CNN) Despite all his medical knowledge, 31-year-old medical student and Ph. […]
Remdesivir Clinical Trials
Gilead-initiated Trials Gilead has initiated two Phase 3 clinical studies to evaluate the safety and efficacy of remdesivir in adults diagnosed with COVID-19 following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s […]
Panel suggests remdesivir as preferred antiviral for pediatric COVID-19 patients
Source: Healio In new guidance, a panel of pediatric infectious diseases physicians and pharmacists suggested that supportive care alone is sufficient to treat most children with COVID-19. Among children who […]
Saudi Arabia to abolish flogging – supreme court
Source: BBC Saudi Arabia is to abolish flogging as a form of punishment, according to a legal document seen by media outlets. The directive from the Gulf kingdom’s Supreme Court […]
The Story of the 12 Monkeys: The Successful Chinese Vaccine
Vaccine shows promise in monkey trials, says Chinese company Source: Dawn Four macaques who received a high dose of the vaccine had “no detectable” amounts of the virus in their […]
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. […]
Why France has 4 times as many coronavirus deaths as Germany
Source: Vox Germany followed the playbook for saving lives. France didn’t. By Alex Ward@AlexWardVoxalex.ward@vox.com Apr 17, 2020, 3:20pm EDT France and Germany, Europe’s two most powerful countries, have been hit hard by […]
How the Coronavirus Is Changing the World
Source: Spiegel One needn’t look far for signs of the apocalypse. The world is facing the most dramatic economic crisis since the Great Depression, according to the International Monetary Fund, and the pandemic will change the planet from the ground up, writes the newsmagazine Foreign Policy. Are things really going […]
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 […]
Kaaba on the First Day of Ramadan
Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times about Fundamentalism in all Abrahamic Faiths: ‘God Created the Virus. But Now He Has Lost Control.’ ‘God is with […]
Jill Biden: I’d love for Michelle Obama to be VP pick
New Day CNN’s Alisyn Camerota asks Jill Biden if her husband, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden, would consider former first lady Michelle Obama as his […]