International

ONE PERSON IS dead and 15 people were injured as a car rammed protestors who had gathered to show their opposition to a hard-right demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia this evening. Footage circulating on social media shows a car driving towards ...

ISLAMIC RELIEF is working to bring water to the population of Qoyta, a town in the Togdheer region of Somaliland. Climate change and global warming have led to the town suffering prolonged drought. Some 28,000 households are facing food insecurity ...

ISLAMIC RELIEF is appealing for donations to support its work in providing education in Syria. The charity has been supporting education since 2012, during which time it has helped thousands of children cling on to their education. Today, the charity ...

IN YEMEN, a child under the age of five dies from preventable causes every ten minutes. This is the shocking statistic which drives the charity Human Appeal to push on with providing aid on the ground in this war-ravaged country. ...

Hanna-Mariam Chowdhury THE INDIA-UK Year of Culture officially began on 28th February, with a launch at Buckingham Palace hosted by The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. Now the High Commission of India has formally marked the launch of this ...

THE WOMAN arrested in East London on Thursday by officers from the Metropolitan Place War Crimes Unit appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court today, Saturday, 3rd June, to answer three charges of conspiring with others to allow physical torture and rape ...

JEREMY CORBYN is to set out a Labour foreign policy aimed at reducing the terror threat rather than fanning the flames of conflict. The Labour Leader will be speaking tomorrow morning (Friday, 26th May – his birthday) to Labour supporters ...

TWO SMALL STEPS towards gay rights have been taken in the last week – one in Asia, and one in London – while another report indicates that LGBT people are still subject to persecution. •Taiwan has laws which define marriage ...

THE WORLD FOOD Programme has calculated that half the population of Gaza does not have enough to eat. One important source of food for the people in Gaza is fish – but the fishermen of Gaza are not free to ...

THE UK CHARITY Islamic Relief has been shortlisted by The Charity Awards for an award in its international aid and development category. The nominated programme is the charity’s project to tackle climate change in Bangladesh. Islamic Relief is spending £1 ...