A van ploughed into worshippers leaving a London mosque early Monday, killing at least one person and injuring several in what Britain’s largest Muslim organisation said was a deliberate act of Islamophobia. The Muslim Council of Britain said the vehicle hit people as they were leaving the Finsbury Park Mosque,[…]
Muslims who were awake because they were beginning their Ramadan fast “saved people’s lives” when a deadly blaze broke out at a west London tower block, HuffPost UK has been told. At least 50 people have been taken to five hospitals for treatment as hundreds of residents in the 27-storey,[…]
Three more people were arrested Wednesday in connection with London’s weekend terrorist attack which left eight people dead, British police said. Two men were arrested by police “supported by firearms officers” on a street in Ilford, east London, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement. A 27-year-old was detained on[…]
North Korea’s deputy ambassador in London has defected with his family, according to media reports, which if confirmed would make it one of the most high-profile defections in recent years from the increasingly isolated country. South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported on Tuesday that a high-profile diplomat in the UK[…]
One of three schoolgirls who left London in February 2015 to join ISIS has reportedly died, her family lawyer told Reuters on Thursday. Attorney Tasnime Akunjee said the family of Kadiza Sultana learned of her death in Raqqa, Syria, a few weeks ago. She was believed to have been killed[…]
Thousands have protested in London against British voters’ decision last week to leave the European Union, which has left the country deeply polarised. Most protestors who gathered on Saturday were young adults, and many were draped in EU flags, while others waved banners in support of the EU. Marching through[…]
An academic who became pregnant with her second child, aged 44, has shown that abnormal cells in the early embryo are not necessarily a sign that a baby will be born with a birth defect such as Down’s syndrome. Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, who describes herself as one of the growing[…]
Plans to build a mosque in east London that could hold services for up to 9,000 worshippers at a time have been rejected by the planning minister. The Department for Communities and Local Government dismissed appeals against the refusal of planning permission for the mosque in Newham. A spokesman for[…]
Zambian president Michael Sata died in London, where he arrived for medical treatment last week, several African media outlets reported Wednesday. His death Tuesday evening was reported by broadcaster Muvi Television, citing acting president Edgar Lungu, as well as the opposition-linked Zambian Watchdog. The BBC said family sources confirmed the[…]
Members of UK’s far-right Britain First group have invaded another mosque in south east London, giving the imam a seven-day warning to remove signs indicating separate entrances for Muslim men and women at the mosque. “In this country we have equality,” one member says, as the Muslim man protests over[…]
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