Wed 18 March 2020: London’s first-ever Muslim LGBTQI pride event has been postponed until at least the winter, following new UK government advice on the global coronavirus pandemic. The “ImaanFest” – which was due to take place on 11 April – has been rescheduled to take place in December 2020. “Because of the fast-moving situation and […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: Clerics from Saudi Arabia to Iran believe the current global coronavirus outbreak is edging the world closer to the end of time. Prominent conservative Iranian cleric Ali Reza Banahyan said the infection – which has swept through much of the world and killed nearly 1,000 people in Iran so far – […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: Iranian state media said the country has received medical aid from each of China and Turkey to help it fight the new coronvirus. IRNA news agency reported Turkey’s Health Ministry in Tehran as saying that Ankara has delivered a shipment that contains medical and health items under a deal inked between […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: British Iranian aid worker among thousands of prisoners released as Iran frets about spread of coronavirus. Jailed British Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been temporarily released in Iran for two weeks, her husband said on Tuesday. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: The WHO urges countries to test more people to curb the pandemic, but India has not expanded testing so far. Indian authorities have said they will not expand coronavirus testing, as most affected nations are doing, despite criticism that limited testing could leave COVID-19 cases undetected in the world’s second-most populous […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: People who suspect they have caught the novel coronavirus should not take the popular drug ibuprofen without consulting a doctor, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, pointing to ongoing research into possible negative effects. WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a Geneva press conference that there are no recent studies […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: In his address to nation, Imran Khan warns of spread of virus in country, if people do not ‘act responsibly’ Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday pledged to fight the coronavirus and warned the nation of a possible spread of the virus in the country, if the people did not […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: The coronavirus pandemic will lead to the bankruptcy of many airlines around the world by the end of May unless governments take steps to avoid such a situation, according to a report by Bloomberg. According to the report, the cancellation of many flights plus low seat occupancy rates will cause the […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: The temporary closure of mosques in some countries across the Islamic world is considered a “religious duty” in light of the global coronavirus pandemic, according to Mohammed al-Issa, the Secretary-General of the Muslim World League. “This is considered a religious duty dictated by the Islamic Sharia and its general and specific […]
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Wed 18 March 2020: Saudi Arabia announced on Wednesday new rules for private sector businesses to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, in an update to the “remote-work” guideline issued on Monday. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development instructed private sector establishments to suspend work for 15 days, and instead activate remote work procedures, according […]
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