Many U.S. states are relaxing indoor and school mask mandates. But health professionals warn the danger isn’t over yet, as new variants of COVID-19 continue to spread nationwide. Among the first to loosen indoor mask restrictions are New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, Illinois, New York and Massachusetts. California also plans t...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul HOKUL on Friday unveiled a plan to make the city’s subway system safer. Adams, a former New York City transit police officer, announced the plan to remove homeless and mentally ill people from the subway system. The move is in response to a […]
The White House has released a screening tool to help identify disadvantaged communities plagued by environmental hazards. But the administration won’t include race as a factor in deciding where to allocate resources. Officials told reporters Friday excluding race will make projects less likely to draw legal challenges and will be easier...
Britain’s largest police force is facing accusations of racism after at least three Muslim officers made a formal complaint against their bosses. Officers with the Metropolitan Police complained they were subjected to Islamophobic abuse at their station canteen. A Muslim police officer who failed to take part in a voluntary team-building exerc...
A Palestinian woman is calling for the trial of six Israeli officers who she alleges sexually assaulted her in 2015, Arab48 reports. An investigation into the conduct of three workers with Israel’s internal security agency Shin Bet, as well as three army officers was closed about 10 months ago. Authorities cited a lack of evidence, […]...
A 51-year-old Kashmiri widow tailors a traditional long loose shirt and baggy trousers for a customer. Shaheena Akhter keeps busy with tailoring at her small home in Srinagar SRI NAGAR, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. Akhter lives alone in the congested poor neighborhood of Khwaja Bazar. She has developed many health problems since...
India has lodged a diplomatic protest with Singapore over Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s LEE SHEN LONG’S recent remarks. Lee said almost half the Indian Parliament members have criminal charges pending against them, including charges of rape and murder. This issue comes more than a week after New Delhi summoned the South Korean ambassador ov...
When India and Pakistan gained freedom from the British nearly 75 years ago, the Muslim population on the Indian Punjab drastically reducing from 33% to 0.5%. Most mosques were either destroyed or abandoned. Now since Pakistan opened a special corridor for Sikhs to visit their holy sites in Pakistan, the goodwill is being returned. In [&hell...
Malians gathered in the capital Bamako BAA MU KOW to celebrate the withdrawal of French troops. Some demonstrators carried placards with messages such as “France is a terrorist nation.” Mali’s government on Friday asked France to withdraw its forces from the Sahel state “without delay.” It called into question Paris’ plans to pull out over [&h...
Muslims in the Dutch capital Amsterdam face increasing Islamophobia, according to a new study. The survey, which was conducted by the Amsterdam municipality, found that Muslims living there regularly face discrimination, reports the English-language newspaper NL Times. Researchers found respondents believe the normalization of Islamophobia i...
