Donald Trump’s race for the White House has suffered a setback, with rival candidate Ted Cruz winning the primary contest in the mid-western state of Wisconsin. Trump remains in the lead of the contest to be selected as the Republican ...
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Honours even as Jawhara and Stepney meet in Moroccan showdown
Jawhara FC 2-2 Stepney FC Emdad Rahman Members of Stepney Football Club, who are visiting Morocco as part of a cultural and football tour, locked horns with Lareche-based Jawhara FC in a friendly match at the Campo Hasaniya. In a ...
Read More »A woman passes; the era lives on
The death of Nancy Reagan, widow of the late US President Ronald Reagan, was announced at the weekend. She was widely heralded in the press as a woman who had sacrificed her own career in order to support her husband ...
Read More »Is this the sound of breaking China?
China sneezes: will the world catch a cold? This could be – and is – a phrase being used today to headline articles about China’s admission that its annual economic growth has sunk below 7%. It was also a headline ...
Read More »Trump says “ban Muslims” in campaign ad
Warning: potentially offensive islamophobic image below. Alas, it seems Donald Trump is slightly cleverer than we thought. The two major parties in the USA, the Democrats and the Republicans, are choosing their candidates for November’s presidential elections. The candidates are ...
Read More »Bangladesh earthquake: further reports arrive
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake occurred at approximately 5am on the morning of 3rd January. The epicentre was near Imphal, the capital of that Manipur state of India, just to the east of Bangladesh – about 200 miles from Dhaka. The ...
Read More »Mystery surrounds mosque attack
A 29 year old man drove a red Peugeot 307 at a mosque in Valence, France, on New Year’s day: no one yet knows why. Initially it seemed like a terror attack. The French army has been on guard outside ...
Read More »Rats! Back to Mumbai…
The stowaway rat – was it a tourist? going to visit friends in the UK? an aspiring illegal immigrant? a refugee? an economic migrant? lost? – allegedly spotted on the Air India flight on 30th December is not the airline’s ...
Read More »Human Relief Foundation visits Jordan humanitarian aid camps
Emdad Rahman A team from the UK-based charity Human Relief Foundation (HRF) has returned from visiting various locations in Jordan to distribute aid to the most vulnerable refugees. Volunteers handed out school stationery kits to young children in Madaba, distributed over ...
Read More »Bangladeshi journalists’ lives at risk
East London newspaper London Bangla has reported that journalists are facing a severe crackdown by the state in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The report states: “Police reports confirm that local journalist Mushfiqur Rahman Tuhin (38) of Kutubpur village at ...
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