Millions in Lebanon risk food insecurity over virus lockdown: HRW
By AFP – Apr 08,2020 – JORDAN TIMES The lockdown imposed by Lebanese authorities to stem the spread of COVID-19 has compounded poverty and economic hardship in the country, rights […]
Coronavirus outbreak: ‘A disastrous situation’: mountains of food wasted as coronavirus scrambles supply chain
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/us-coronavirus-outbreak-agriculture-food-supply-waste#img-2 Farmers are seeing produce rot in fields and dairy wash down drains as they rush to find areas of demand and prevent closures Susie Cagle Thu 9 Apr 2020 […]
Pakistan to Reopen Border for Afghan Visitors Stranded Due to COVID-19 Closure
Closure By Ayaz Gul April 04, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan announced Saturday it will briefly reopen the border with Afghanistan early next week to allow an unspecified number of stranded nationals of the neighboring country to return home. The coronavirus outbreak prompted Islamabad to seal borders with all neighboring countries […]
Kissinger: Failure to establish post-COVID new world order ‘could set the world on fire’
The famous presidential foreign policy adviser demanded ‘a global collaborative vision and program’ and adherence to the ‘principles of the liberal world order.’ Tue Apr 7, 2020 – […]
Coronavirus could push half a billion people into poverty, Oxfam warns
Nearly half of all jobs in Africa could be lost without urgent action, says charity Larry Elliott Economics editorThu 9 Apr 2020 People await Covid-19 screening and testing in Lenasia, […]
Coronavirus is changing how American Muslims hold funerals
Islam has specific guidelines for dealing with burials, but some rituals are being changed to help prevent the spread of the disease One of the biggest problems for Muslim families […]
Himalayas visible for first time in 30 years as pollution levels in India drop
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 […]
Egypt to ban Ramadan gatherings to counter spread of coronavirus
Apr 7, 2020 – swissinfo.ch CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt will ban any public religious gatherings during the holy Muslim fasting month Ramadan starting in around two weeks to counter the […]
As a Muslim, I consider it my duty to pray for Boris Johnson. I’m shocked by my peers who don’t think the same
Personally and politically, I worry for what would happen if the PM succumbed to this cruel disease By Ali-Asghar Abedi, New York, @AbediAA As a TV writer specializing in political […]
UNTOLD STORY SPECIAL: Khalifatul Masih, The Muazzin, an Empty Mosque and a Worldwide Audience
Syed Mohammad Ahmad Nasir 6th April 2020 Recollections of Syed Mohammad Ahmad Nasir 3rdApril 2020 Today is 3rd of April 2020 …. It is Friday. Hazrat Khalifatul Masih (aba) is […]
The US churches and pastors ignoring ‘stay-at-home’ orders
Concerted effort to protect religious freedoms is playing out as some states exempt houses of worship from stay-home orders In executive orders issued in quick succession this week, DeSantis designated […]
Stealing masks and stockpiling hydroxychloroquine — what America has become during this epidemic is deeply worrying
Under Trump’s crisis leadership, the US has been accused of modern piracy on the airport tarmac, considered denying medical supplies to Canada and taken medication off lupus patients. Meanwhile, New […]
France heading for worst recession since WWII: minister
Short Url https://arab.news/vzavk Updated 8 sec ago AFP April 06, 2020 France imposed a nationwide stay-at-home order from March 17 after shuttering all nonessential businesses Statistics office Insee said last […]
A new world will be established, and Islam will have a key role in it
Yusuf Kaplan 05 April 2020 Humanity is going through one of those rarely-seen general epidemics in history. It is more the fear of the virus than the epidemic itself that frightens people. Muslims have been the type of people to be most resistant against major epidemics, wars and disasters. […]
The Muslim Times Recommending Universal BCG Vaccination to Fight the Pandemic
Our favorite post of the week: FDA authorizes experimental drug remdesivir for emergency use in COVID-19 patients Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Today is […]
A tiny, invisible thing has turned the world upside down
by Merve Şebnem Oruç Columns Apr 04, 2020 DAILY SABAH, ISTANBUL COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has drastically changed the routines of our lives. For instance, as a columnist closely following the Middle East, I barely get the opportunity to speak or write about Syria, the Mediterranean or […]
Wait, Jared Kushner is the coronavirus guru now?
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Updated 1624 GMT (0024 HKT) April 4, 2020 CNN)As the coronavirus task force gathered for their now-daily press briefing, a familiar figure joined […]
If Saudi Arabia is forced to put the Hajj on hold, it will not be without precedent
Arab News Sunday . April 05, 2020 Short Url https://arab.news/4xx98 MOHAMMED AL-KINANI April 04, 2020 Saudi minister’s remarks have called into question viability of this year’s Hajj amid coronavirus crisis […]
Death in the Holy Land – Coronavirus changes burial for Jews, Muslims
Apr 2, 2020 FILE PHOTO: An employee of Chevra Kadisha, the main group that oversees Jewish burials in Israel, looks on while wearing protective gear at a special centre […]
Two young American doctors spend honeymoon fighting coronavirus
Our favorite post: The Muslim Times Recommending Universal BCG Vaccination to Fight the Pandemic Source: Swiss Info By Katharine Houreld (Reuters) – She’d picked her dress, they’d booked their honeymoon and […]