International

Emdad Rahman SPORTING BENGAL rolled back the years as the renowned Tower Hamlets club paraded an array of legends who faced off against each other for a charitable cause.  With the Rohingya people fleeing Myanmar to escape horrendous persecution, global ...

Emdad Rahman This weekend Newham Leisure Centre will host Play for Rohingya – a football tournament to raise awareness of the plight of the stricken Rohingya people in Myanmar and funds and to support them. Play 4 Rohingya is a ...

EXTREME RIGHT WINGERS will now be sitting in the German Federal Parliament for the first time since the Second World War – according to exit polls following today’s elections. The polls confirm that Angela Merkel is on course to emerge ...

A TEAM OF 14 police constables, two sergeants and an inspector from the Met Police have gone out to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) to help with local law enforcement after Hurricane Irma devastated the area. The team flew out ...

THE CHARITY Human Appeal has been supplying aid to the Rohingya people in refugee camps on the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh for nearly a year now – and the need is growing rather than diminishing. The crisis has been ...

CONSTITUENTS IN Bethnal Green & Bow were stunned today as the constituency MP, Labour’s Rushanara Ali, snubbed a local reporter trying to ask her a question at a public meeting. The incident occurred at a public meeting in defence of ...

Emdad Rahman The Rural Development Foundation (RDF) Global and The Champions League Newham delivered a football extravaganza to raise awareness of maternity services that the charity is delivering to vulnerable and needy women and families in rural Bangladesh.  Twenty-four teams ...

TWO AREAS OF India have been severely hit by flooding – and Islamic Relief has been able to offer emergency aid, thanks to the generosity of donors. Hundreds of people have lost their lives. In both Assam and Bihar, overflowing ...

PEOPLE died in the recent terrorist attacks in Barcelona. The attacks are indefensible and have been condemned by many Muslim groups in Spain as well as internationally. One of the consequences of the terrorist attacks, however, is that there has ...

DROUGHT IS NOT just an absence of water. There are many ways a prolonged drought can set up a chain reaction which can see a community becoming dependent on aid and finding it hard to get its life going again. ...