International

THE CHARITY Sense International has raised £500,000 in an appeal called “My Turn to Learn”. The sum raised includes £216,000 contributed by the UK Government uner the Aid Match funding scheme. Lord Bates, Minister of State for International Development, visited ...

ON 12TH JUNE 40 volunteers from the DH Foundation held street collections in various parts of Tower Hamlets to help the poor and needy across Bangladesh. Working from 10am through to 9pm, the volunteer collectors raised nearly £4,000. The DH ...

AS MILLIONS OF Muslims around the world celebrated Eid, violence was escalating in the strife-torn country of Yemen – and the Islamic Relief charity was stepping up its relief operations to meet the humanitarian consequences. Fighting intensified around the port ...

THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE will be hosting an event on Tuesday, 19th June to launch a book on the Rohingya crisis and to raise funds for the Rohingya refugees. The event begins at 6pm. The book has been written by ...

Muhammad Rahman A DELEGATION FROM Neighbours in Poplar have returned after spending a day in Calais, France, as part of an aid deployment to support refugees and migrants. They delivered arts, crafts and footballs to Calais refugees. Sister Christine Frost ...

LABOUR LEADER Jeremy Corbyn wrote to Tory Prime Minister Theresa May after she had sent UK aircraft to bomb Syria in retaliation for President Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons against the Syrian population in Douma. Corbyn set out his ...

AS THERESA MAY risked UK and Syrian lives with a military attack on targets in Syria last night, opposition came from many UK sources. Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn gave a quick and concise response, saying, “Bombs won’t save lives or ...

THE LAST TIME Parliament discussed whether to bomb Syria, it voted against taking action. Nonetheless, when offered the chance to put UK and Syrian lives at risk last night, Prime Minister Theresa May joined in. Today May said that she ...

THE US HAS bombed Syria. UK and French forces have joined in. The three claimed that this was a punishment of the Syrian Government for allegedly using chemical weapons in an attack on its own population in Douma. The three ...

“THE END OF the World is Nigh” warned the old poster: has Donald Trump put one up in the White House? He seems hell bent on turning an already fraught dispute into a military conflict which could destroy the world ...