‘My crew saved 218 migrants from drowning – so why are we the enemy?’
Captain Marc Reig’s ship is stuck in a Sicilian port, and a hostage to Italy’s resurgent right, as charities become a target for their role in rescuing refugees Lorenzo Tondo […]
Australian migrants among the happiest in the world
By Matt Wade 23 March 2018 — Malcolm Turnbull likes to say Australia is the world’s most successful multicultural country and he might be right. Photo: Andrew Meares People are […]
Norway proposes bill to ban full-face veils in education
Source: Swiss Info By Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO (Reuters) – The Norwegian government proposed on Friday a nationwide ban on the wearing of full-face veils, such as the burqa and the […]
Amnesty denounces Western arms sales to Saudi Arabia and allies in Yemen war
Reuters International This content was published on March 23, 2018 DUBAI (Reuters) – Amnesty International on Friday denounced Western arms sales to Saudi Arabia and its allies in a […]
Merkel ally defiant in row over Islam’s place in Germany
Reuters International This content was published on March 23, 2018 German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks to Interior Minister Horst Seehofer during a session of the lower house of parliament […]
India: Air India flight crosses Saudi airspace to Israel
Air India on Thursday launched the first scheduled service to Israel to be allowed to cross Saudi airspace, a sign of a behind-the-scenes improvement in ties between the Arab kingdom and the Jewish state. Flight AI 139 landed at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport about 30 minutes after its scheduled […]
Messages of support keep flooding in for this mosque after it was vandalised
by Mimi Launder in offbeat Two women were arrested after horrifying videos showed them breaking into and vandalising a mosque in Arizona with three children in tow. Ahmad Al-Koum, the […]
Boko Haram kept one Dapchi girl who refused to deny her Christianity
Source: The Guardian Ruth Maclean west Africa correspondent and Isaac Abrak in Dapchi The only Christian girl among the Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram last month could have been freed along […]
March For Our Lives: Huge gun-control rallies sweep US
Source: BBC News Mass student-led protests calling for tighter gun control are under way across the United States. The protests – under the banner March For Our Lives – have […]
Freed Filipino priest says airstrikes routed IS extremists
Source: Associated Press By JIM GOMEZ MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino Roman Catholic priest taken hostage last year by Islamic State group-linked militants recounted Friday how military airstrikes helped […]
US pastor Andrew Brunson accused of using Christianity as part of a terrorist plot
Source: Religion News Service By Yonat Shimron A photo of the Rev. Andrew Brunson during his time in prison. Photo courtesy of World Witness (RNS) — A North Carolina pastor who has […]
Jewish candidate for Muslim party breaks barriers in Tunisia
Source: Associated Press By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Simon Slama and his family are the only Jews left in the Tunisian city of Monastir, once home to […]
Indian ‘cow protectors’ jailed for life over murder of Muslim man
Source: The Guardian BY Michael Safi in Delhi Eleven men were part of mob that attacked Alimuddin Ansari, who was transporting beef The cow is considered sacred by many Hindus. Photograph: Sanjeev […]
Dalai Lama cuts foreign travel due to age, exhaustion
SOURCE: CNN By Sugam Pokharel, Yuli Yang and Daniel Burke, CNN (CNN)The Dalai Lama, the globe-trotting Tibetan spiritual leader, will do no more traveling this year, a spokesman said, saying the […]
In Indonesia, a shadowy campaign to stoke unrest as elections loom
Source: Reuters By Tom Allard, Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Kanupriya Kapoor BANDUNG, Indonesia (Reuters) – A spate of mysterious attacks on Islamic clerics, schools and mosques in Indonesia in recent weeks has […]
Two dead as suspected IS gunman takes hostages in France
Source: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE At least two people were killed after a gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group opened fire and took hostages at a supermarket in southwest France on […]
Lone Nigerian captive refused to convert for Boko Haram
Source: Associated Press By SAM OLUKOYA and BASHIR ADIGUN LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The mother of the only Nigerian schoolgirl still in Boko Haram captivity after the extremists released 104 […]
Prince Alwaleed Reveals Secret Deal Struck to Exit Ritz After 83 Days
One of the world’s richest men opens up about his confinement by the Saudi government. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal in his penthouse office suite in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Photographer: Guy […]
Nigeria: Ahmadiyya set to preach Islam on social media
On March 23, 2018 Over eight hundred Muslims have benefited from a special training organised by Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Nigeria (AMJN) to horn their skills in the propagation of Islam. […]
Yes, John Bolton Really Is That Dangerous
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD MARCH 23, 2018 Credit Eric Hanson The good thing about John Bolton, President Trump’s new national security adviser, is that he says what he thinks. The bad […]