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Muslims should take to Facebook to condemn extremism, retired police chief suggests
British Muslims should use their Facebook and WhatsApp accounts to denounce extremism and drive it from their communities, a former police chief has said. Mak ... -
Trojan horse tribunal throws out case against five Birmingham teachers
The government’s attempt to ban five senior teachers for their involvement in the Trojan horse controversy has been thrown out after government lawyers were ... -
7/7 Met police chief calls for extremists to be locked up in INTERNMENT Camps
Thousands of radical extremists must be locked up in new internment camps to protect Britain from the unprecedented terror threat it faces, a Muslim ... -
Manchester attack: Hate crime ‘doubles’ after incident
A bomb threat, racist taunts and graffiti are among a significant rise in hate crimes reported to Greater Manchester Police following Monday’s attack, the ... -
World is plundering Africa’s wealth for ‘billions of dollars a year
Research by campaigners claims aid and loans to the continent are outweighed by financial flows to tax havens and costs of climate change mitigation. ... -
India ‘bombs Pakistan army posts’ in Kashmir
India’s army says it bombed Pakistani army posts along the de facto border dividing the two countries in Kashmir. Army spokesman Ashok Narula said ... -
Air strikes on Isis-held Mosul ‘leave 230 civilians dead’, reports local media
Approximately 230 people are reported to have been killed in what is thought to have been a US-led coalition air strike on an Isis-held ... -
Somalia Is On The Brink Of Another Catastrophic Famine
As Somalia inches closer to a calamitous famine, the prospect of utter devastation and colossal loss of human life is once again becoming an ... -
Homes cost more than seven times income
The typical property cost 7.6 times average annual earnings of employees in England and Wales, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. The aftermath ... -
EU workplace headscarf ban ‘can be legal’, says ECJ
Workplace bans on the wearing of “any political, philosophical or religious sign” such as headscarves need not constitute direct discrimination, Europe’s top court has ... -
Men and women struggle to get on at work and find time for their families
Once only women got penalised for taking time out to look after children nce it was simple. Men worked and most women stayed at ... -
Paul Beatty: ‘For me, Trump’s America has always existed’
Booker prize winner says president’s rise is not a shock and race relations have improved very little, even under Obama When Donald Trump was ... -
Russia Signs Deal for Syria Bases; Turkey Appears to Accept Assad
Russia signed a long-term agreement on Friday to greatly enlarge its military presence in Syria, more than doubling the space for warships in Russia’s ... -
UN says 82 civilians shot on the spot in Aleppo
Syrian pro-government forces have been entering homes in eastern Aleppo and killing those inside, including women and children, the UN says. The UN’s human ... -
Junaid Jamshed, wife and family were on board Pakistan plane crash flight, says brother
There are unlikely to be any survivors, a government official on the scene said The brother of Junaid Jamshed has confirmed the Pakistan singer ... -
Why Germany’s famously tolerant chancellor just proposed a burqa ban
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been under fire in Germany for allowing hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees into the country — and, according ... -
Judging the Casey review: ‘I’m sick of being told I don’t get on with people’
In Sparkhill, Birmingham, a handful of those mentioned in Louise Casey’s report react to it with a mixture of exasperation and criticism – some ... -
UK courts more likely to jail black than white people for same crimes
Britain’s courts are more likely to send people from ethnic minorities to prison for certain types of crime than white people convicted of the ... -
Teaching assistant sacked for objecting to 9/11 footage rejects compensation
Suriyah Bi to take case to court after being fired by Heartlands Academy in Birmingham for raising concernsA teaching assistant who was sacked for ... -
Syria conflict: Food rations run out in rebel-held Aleppo
The last remaining food rations are being distributed in besieged rebel-held eastern districts of the Syrian city of Aleppo, the UN has said. Humanitarian ... -
Tottenham hijab attack: police e-fit of man hunted after woman’s headscarf is ‘pulled off’
Police have released an image of a man they are hunting over a “sickening” racist attack when a woman’s hijab was torn from her ...