Mon 12 September 2022: Muslim actors are virtually in the shadows on major television shows, according to a study released Wednesday by the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. The report looked at the 200 top-rated television series from 2018 and 2019 that aired in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand and […]
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Mon 12 September 2022: Fifty million people around the world are trapped in forced labour or forced marriage, the UN said Monday, warning that their ranks had swelled dramatically in recent years. The United Nations had set a goal to eradicate all forms of modern slavery by 2030, but instead the number of people caught […]
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Mon 12 September 2022: Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya and a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has criticized the conduct of the Russian army following the fall of Izyum, a crucial supply center in the eastern Ukrainian province of Kharkiv, over the weekend. He acknowledged the campaign was not going as expected […]
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Sydney Opera House was lit up with the Queen’s image. Sun 11 September 2022: According to Sydney-based 7 News, a secret handwritten letter from Queen Elizabeth II to Australia has been kept in a vault, where she had directed it to be opened in 63 years. The letter was written in November 1986, following the […]
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Anti-royalists demonstrate outside Cardiff Castle in Wales, holding placards reading “Not Our King.” Sun 11 September 2022: Prior to King Charles III’s proclamation of his succession in Edinburgh, a woman was detained for carrying a sign that was critical of the monarchy. The arrest, according to Police Scotland, took place in front of St. Giles’ […]
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Sun 11 September 2022: The US justice jepartment told a federal judge that Google is paying billions of dollars annually to illegally remain the top search engine. Describing the payments as “enormous numbers,” Department of Justice attorney Kenneth Dintzer said telecom giants and companies being paid include Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co. During a […]
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Sun 11 September 2022: Scientists claim that a skeleton discovered in a remote region of Borneo rewrites the history of ancient medicine and gives proof that successful amputation surgery was carried out some 31,000 years ago. Prior to the discovery of a 7,000-year-old skeleton in France, it was believed that only advanced agricultural cultures had […]
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Sun 11 September 2022: If Russian shipments over the Black Sea are permitted, Turkey will provide grain and other pertinent products to needy African nations, according to the Turkish president on Friday, Anadolu Agency reportd. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed the same opinion as his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to reporters on the plane following […]
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Sun 11 September 2022: The US Supreme Court has granted temporary permission for an Orthodox Jewish university in New York to deny official recognition to an LGBTQ student group. Yeshiva University turned to the court for an urgent ruling after a New York state judge said the school had to let the Pride Alliance register […]
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Sun 11 September 2022: Commemorations for the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks remain an important part of US history, but for Muslim-Americans, post-9/11 ramifications of Islamophobia have bled deep into the fabric of American society more than two decades later. “Muslims continue to be the target of hate, bullying, and discrimination as a result of the […]
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