Infection rate slows in Spain as death toll passes 9000
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Coronavirus: Spain’s deaths pass 9,000 as infection rate slows […]
FDA authorizes new two-minute test for coronavirus; antibody based?
Suggested reading: The ‘game changer’ that wasn’t: Company falsely claimed FDA authorization for coronavirus blood test Source: The Hill The Food and Drug Administration issued emergency approval to a two-minute […]
The 2015 Refugee Crisis Was Actually a Boon for Europe
Source: Foreign Affairs As the EU Scrambles to Halt the Next Wave, Here’s What Happened to the Last One By Paul Hockenos March 19, 2020 On the border between Greece […]
Church selling ‘plague protection kits’ for £91
By Tess de la Mare, PA A faith healer has been accused of “exploiting” people’s anxiety about the coronavirus crisis by selling a “plague protection kit” for £91. Bishop Climate […]
India manhunt after Islamic gathering becomes virus hotspot
Source: Dawn A large religious gathering of the Tableeghi Jamaat in New Delhi has sparked a manhunt across India for suspected coronavirus cases after being linked to dozens of infections and several deaths. The gathering emerged as one of India’s major virus hotspots after thousands flocked to an Islamic religious […]
Kids are regurgitating Brexit hate – it’s time they finally heard the truth about immigration
Young people want to be able to understand how the past relates to the present day. We owe it to them to be honest, writes Beki Martin The prejudicial […]
I’m a medic on a rescue ship in Italy – right now, authorities are using coronavirus as an excuse to let migrants die
Despite the pandemic, non-assistance and deliberate delays have become the new norm in Maltese and Italian rescues zones, causing more disappearances and deaths, both at sea and in Libya Valeria […]
Virus Soars Among Ultra-Orthodox Jews as Many Flout Israel’s Rules
Source: New York Times Failure to comply with government restrictions is causing the coronavirus to spread in ultra-Orthodox communities up to eight times faster than elsewhere in Israel. By David […]
Some ultra-Orthodox Jews are ignoring Israel’s coronavirus rules, despite a warning to ‘wake up!’
Source: CNN The mourners gathered by the hundreds, packed tightly on to the evening streets of Bnei Brak. There was no social distancing — no two meters between them — as they made their way down the roads of this ultra-Orthodox town near Tel Aviv for the Saturday night funeral […]
Plan to train repentant Boko Haram insurgents illogical, unthinkable –Alatoye, Ahmadiyya National Head
Published March 28, 2020 National Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Nigeria, Alhaji AbdulAzeez Alatoye, talks about religious harmony, Boko Haram insurgency, insecurity and other issues with SIMON UTEBOR What […]
First public Azaan recited yesterday in Spain in 500 years? Azaan has been Banned in Spain
Our favorite posts: The Muslim Times Recommending Universal BCG Vaccination to Fight the Pandemic and A Moonshot Moment for the Muslims: Making Covid 19 Vaccine before the West and China We could not confirm the […]
Police arrest Florida pastor for violating public health social distancing and holding service
Florida megachurch pastor arrested for breaching Covid-19 health order Source: The Guardian Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne decries ‘discrimination against religion’ after refusing to restrict services Florida officials have arrested the pastor […]
Ireland: Confirmed cases of coronavirus halves
Source: The Guardian Rory Carroll Encouraging news from Ireland, where the daily growth rate in confirmed cases of coronavirus has halved and the country appears to have avoided an unmitigated […]
Spanish princess becomes first royal to die from coronavirus
Source: CNN Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Parma has become the first royal in the world to die from coronavirus, according to a statement from her brother, Prince Sixto Enrique. The princess, a distant cousin of King Felipe VI, was 86 and died in Paris on Thursday, her brother said. Her […]
Migrant workers sprayed with disinfectant in one Indian state
Source: CNN Kumar, who is the highest-ranking district official in the city, added that workers affected by the incident are currently under medical surveillance following instructions from the chief medical officer. Tens of thousands of India’s 45 million economic migrant workers have been making a long, arduous journeys back to […]
What are the reasons why Europe does not want to return the over 400,000 pieces of stolen African art?
Nii Ntreh | Staff Writer December 02, 2019 In its relationship with Africa, even after slavery and the slave trade, Europe has provably been moved by a certain paternalism, […]
Mosques face up to pandemic as Friday prayers bring coronavirus risk
Mar 20, 2020 – By Yuddy Cahya, Umit Bektas and Abdi Sheikh JAKARTA/ISTANBUL/MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The coronavirus stopped communal Muslim prayers for the first time in living memory in […]
International Justice: Hopes rising that war criminals will be brought to court
By Julia Crawford Mar 30, 2020 An alleged Liberian war criminal is expected to be tried at Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court later this year. (Keystone) With Switzerland’s first international war crimes trial in a non-military court expected to take place in coming months, Swiss NGO TRIAL International says such […]
Religious extremists are making the coronavirus pandemic even worse
Whether in the Iranian shrine city of Qom or the Bible Belt of the United States, the zealots are even claiming they hold the cure to the pandemic, writes Borzou […]
Coronavirus: Thai king self-isolates in Alpine hotel with harem of 20 women amid pandemic
Tens of thousands of Thais risk breaking law to criticise him online Source: Independent Thailand’s controversial king has been self-isolating in a luxury hotel in the Alpine resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen with his entourage. King Maha Vajiralongkorn, also known as Rama X, is said to have booked out the entire […]