Businessman Rachid Nekkaz. Photo: AFP Published: 22 Aug 2016 16:24 GMT+02:00 A businessman has been picking up the tabs for the women caught wearing burqinis on French beaches, and tells The Local he’ll keep “fighting to the death” for freedom. Even though the burqini has been banned in over a […]
Photo: Jean Christophe Magnenet /AFP Published: 27 Aug 2016 10:58 GMT+02:00 French resorts were defiant after a ban on the burqini in a Riviera town was overturned, vowing to keep the restrictions in place and continue imposing fines on women who wear the full-body swimsuit. France’s top court suspends burqini […]
Reuters International AUG 27, 2016 – By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Women in India have the right to fully access a famous mosque in the city of Mumbai, a top court ruled on Friday, bolstering a nationwide campaign aimed at securing women their religious rights […]
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS Germany bemoans Swiss-transited asylum seekers AUG 17, 2016 – 21:43 Asylum seekers arriving in Switzerland from Italy (Keystone) German officials have complained that the border with Switzerland has more holes than a “Swiss cheese” as asylum seekers head north across the Alps, despite the best efforts of Swiss […]
Lone children seeking refuge in the UK – many of whom have never seen a table tennis match before – find a topspin welcome on the south coast Players at Brighton table tennis club. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian Kate Lyons Friday 26 August 2016 On the wall […]
Source: The Guardian Imam of Mariam mosque in Copenhagen says aim is to challenge patriarchal structures and inspire other women By Harriet Sherwood in Copenhagen t was Friday prayers with a […]
Source: Time By Melissa Chan Man’s best friend is also man’s oldest friend. Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated, with evidencesuggesting they were tamed about 15,000 years ago. But […]
By Tom Porter August 26, 2016 10:08 BST . IBTimes.co.uk Birmingham education authorities buckled to pressure from sectarian hardliners and blocked a Muslim sect from being represented on an interfaith council, it is claimed. Members of Birmingham’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Community were told that in order to be represented on the city’s Standing […]
Source: Time The public’s introduction to the couple came on the campaign trail in 2007, but the Obamas’ story began nearly two decades earlier when Michelle Robinson was assigned to […]
Source: Time By Maya Rhodan Hillary Clinton did not mince words at a rally in Nevada on Thursday, arguing that Donald Trump is “taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over” the Republican Party. “This is what I want to make clear today: a man with a long […]
Source: BBC Drone footage from the Italian town of Pescara del Tronto has shown the extent of the damage caused by an earthquake on Wednesday. The 6.2-magnitude quake hit at […]
Source: BBC By Ella Davies 26 August 2016 At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Canada’s Derek Drouin took the gold in the high jump, with a leap of 2.38 m (7ft […]
Source: BBC By Robin Wylie 29 August 2016 For a large part of human prehistory, people around the world practised trepanation: a crude surgical procedure that involves forming a hole […]
Source: BBC In 1965, a 27-year-old man turned up to a Scottish hospital with a strange request. The man, who weighed 207kg (around 32 stone) was giving up food – […]
Source: Associated Press By JOSH LEDERMAN and ERIC TUCKER FILE – In this July, 2016 file photo, Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen speaks to members of the media. WASHINGTON (AP) — Turkey says the United States is legally bound by a treaty to immediately hand over Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based Muslim […]
Source: Associated Press By MARK SCOLFORO HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A group of people who don’t believe in God filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday seeking to change how prayers are handled before sessions of the state House of Representatives. The lawsuit in Harrisburg federal court said House officials have […]
Source: Yahoo News The Hague (AFP) – The political party of Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, which is leading polls ahead of parliamentary elections next year, has vowed to close […]
Source: National Review by PETER WEHNER August 25, 2016 4:00 AM With his partisan, reckless comments, the Evangelical celebrity dishonors his Christian faith. Why do some Evangelical Christians act in […]
Suspension concerns single ban in southern town but is likely to set precedent for other places that prohibited full-body swimwear A Muslim woman on a beach in Marseille earlier this month. Photograph: Reuters Staff and agencies Friday 26 August 2016 France’s highest administrative court has suspended a ban on […]
Source: The Guardian By Angelique Chrisafis Suspension concerns single ban in southern town but is likely to set precedent for other places that prohibited full-body swimwear France’s highest administrative court […]