Oxfam International’s latest report on global inequality shows how 21,000 people died each day of the pandemic, while the wealthiest collectively got $1.2 billion richer. Using data from Forbes, the report found the 10 richest people in the world more than doubled their collective wealth since COVID-19 hit in March of 2020. Meanwhile, the inco...
A possible drone attack at Abu Dhabi International Airport that caused an explosion and a fire on Monday killed three people and wounded six. Abu Dhabi police identified the dead as two Indian nationals and one Pakistani. They also said an investigation was underway. Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the attack. The Ira...
The Islamic Development Bank has launched a $1 billion financing plan to support renewable energy. Working with the Arab Petroleum Investment Corporation, the initiative will support utility projects in the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation countries. The funds will be for electricity generation and transmission projects using ren...
South Africa launched three locally produced nanosatellites into space Thursday. It was part of U.S. aerospace company SpaceX’s Transporter-3 mission. It marks the first launch of a satellite constellation developed entirely on the African continent. According to a government statement and a live webcast by SpaceX, the nanosatellites were lau...
A demolition drive in a tribal Muslim area by the Jammu Development Authority or JDA has sparked protests in Jammu and Kashmir. The drive left more than a dozen tribals homeless. Local tribal Muslims accused the JDA of selectively targeting them. Muskan Choudhary told TwoCricles.net that a JDA team along with police demolished their houses [...
A British Jewish leader has resigned following comments he made about Muslims. Gary Mond, vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and treasurer of the U.K. branch of the Jewish National Fund, wrote on Facebook that “all civilization” is “at war with Islam.” A senior member of British Jewry’s main communal organization, [&helli...
An Indonesian court sentenced a Muslim cleric to five months in prison for blasphemy against Christians. Muhammad Yahya Waloni is a Muslim convert from Christianity. On Jan. 11, a South Jakarta District Court convicted Waloni of posting hate speech online that could cause interreligious divisions. Waloni called the Holy Bible a work of fictio...
A German court on Thursday sentenced a former Syrian colonel to life in prison for crimes against humanity.The “historic” verdict marked the end of the first global trial over state-sponsored torture in Syria. Anwar Raslan was found guilty of overseeing the murder of 27 people at the Al-Khatib detention center in Damascus in 2011 and […...
In international news, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Dr. Fernand de Varennes took to Twitter over the social medial harassment of Indian Muslim women. Varennes asked that the culprits be prosecuted. His remarks came amid recent shock and furor over the “Bulli Bai” App. It targets prominent Muslim women by putting up their images ...
Israeli authorities blocked the appointment of new Palestinian security guards at the Al-Aqsa compound in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City. Authorities threatened Palestine’s Jerusalem Islamic Waqf with arrest if they refused to comply. The religious trust administers the Al-Aqsa compound and needs new guards. There have been no new guards a...
