International

THREE YEARS INTO a protracted civil war, Yemen is facing another rainy season. Refugees trying to survive in makeshift shelters will face a new round of challenges – and a greater threat of disease. It is estimated that there are ...

Emdad Rahman A team of 14 Londoners will climb Mount Snowdon next week as part of a mountain challenge to raise awareness of the plight of the Rohingya people of Myanmar. The team are fundraising for the Bangladesh Regeneration Trust ...

Emdad Rahman THE BARKING COMMUNITY FORUM (BCF) raised £2,170.39 from Friday Jumauh prayers which took place at the Hedgecock Community Centre. The funds will go towards the Syria Emergency Appeal for Ghouta. UK charity Muslim Aid has launched a Syria ...

TWO WOMEN from Palestine are coming all the way to the UK next week to talk about their experiences of living in Palestine under Israeli occupation. The visitors were invited to the UK by the Tower Hamlets-Jenin and the Camden-Abu ...

A LEADING Indian cricketer has been accused of “mental torture” by his wife. Hasin Jahan, 26, a former model and cheerleader who married Mohammed Shami five years ago, said that the fast bowler, 27, was guilty of adultery, domestic violence ...

Emdad Rahman A TEAM OF volunteers from Neighbours in Poplar led by Sister Christine Frost have just returned after delivering essentials and participating in aid work to support migrant refugees in Calais. The team visited France as part of a ...

Emdad Rahman RELENTLESS AIRSTRIKES, sieges and imprisonment have left countless Syrians with nothing. Millions are in need of continuous assistance simply in order to survive. With the support of the community, Human Aid UK has not relented in its support ...

THE UK-BASED charity Human Appeal has been working in Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011. It’s not the only charity working there, but it’s certainly done its share. By their own account, this is the aid ...

THE BBC HAS ALLEGED that the man who has been taken ill in the Salisbury contamination incident is Sergei Skripal, 66. The Russian national was convicted, in Russia, of spying for the UK. Skripal, then a colonel in Russian military intelligence, ...

EVER SINCE large numbers of Rohingya people started fleeing to Bangladesh to escape persecution by the Myanmar military forces, international attention has focussed on the refugee camps around Cox’s Bazar. International attention is all very well: what the Rohingya refugees, ...