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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The British van driver who mowed down Muslim worshippers near a London mosque this week was charged Friday with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder, prosecutors said. Darren Osborne, 47, will appear before magistrates in central London later Friday in relation to the charges, the Crown Prosecution Service said, after one man died in the incident early Monday near Finsbury Park Mosque in north London. © Agence France-Presse
by Robin Millard Agence France Presse Police on Tuesday questioned a man suspected of deliberately mowing down Muslims in London, as the interior minister said Britain was “bruised but not broken” by a string of terror attacks. Britain was coming to terms with the aftermath of its fourth bloody assault in three months following Monday’s van attack on people leaving the Finsbury Park Mosque in north London. The family of Darren Osborne, the man […]
CARDIFF, United Kingdom (AFP) — A 47-year-old father of four, Darren Osborne, was named in the British press as the man arrested on suspicion of ploughing a van on Monday into a group of Muslims in London. Nine people were hospitalized after a white driver, who witnesses said shouted: “I want to kill all Muslims”, slammed into a crowd near a mosque in the Finsbury Park area of London. One elderly man, who had collapsed […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Another long weekend is coming up. Malacanang on Friday declared June 26, Monday, as a regular holiday in the country. Proclamation No. 235, signed by President Rodrigo Duterte, said that the declaration was made in observance of Eid’l Fitr, an important Muslim holiday. The declaration was made upon the recommendation of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos. Below is the copy of the declaration:
At least 70 people were rescued Saturday by government forces in Marawi City — including 23 teachers from Dansalan College, who were with a year-old baby, seven other children, and seven other adults — as intense fighting continued on its second week between the Islamist militants and government troopers. But as many as 2,000 people also remained trapped in desperate conditions in these areas, the government said, likely without food and water and with some […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump’s administration asked the United States Supreme Court on Thursday to reinstate its controversial ban on travelers from six Muslim majority nations despite repeated setbacks in the lower courts. In its filing, the government asked the highest court in the land to rule on the legal standing of Trump’s order, appealing a ruling by the federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld a nationwide block of the travel […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Supporters of Jakarta’s non-Muslim governor staged a colorful rally outside city hall Wednesday a day after he was jailed for blasphemy, in a case that has damaged Indonesia’s image as a bastion of tolerant Islam . A crowd wearing red and white — the colors of the Indonesian flag — gathered outside the colonial-era building calling for Basuki Tjahaja Purnama’s release, and singing the country’s national anthem. “Let’s fight for justice,” […]
by Bryan McManus Agence France Presse LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg (AFP) — European companies can ban employees from wearing religious or political symbols including the Islamic headscarf, the EU’s top court ruled Tuesday in a landmark case. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) said it does not constitute “direct discrimination” if a firm has an internal rule banning the wearing of “any political, philosophical or religious sign.” The Luxembourg-based court was considering the case of a Muslim […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump is pledging to work with Muslim countries to fulfill his campaign pledge to defeat the Islamic State group. According to excerpts from a planned speech to a joint session of Congress, Trump will dismiss the jihadist group as “a network of lawless savages that have slaughtered Muslims and Christians, and men, women and children of all faiths and beliefs.” “We will work with our allies, including our […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The White House on Friday pledged to fight back after a federal judge in Seattle ordered a temporary nationwide halt to President Donald Trump’s controversial ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations. Press secretary Sean Spicer called Trump’s executive action “lawful and appropriate” and said the Department of Justice would request an emergency stay of the federal court order “at the earliest possible time.” “The president’s order is intended to […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte will respect and will not comment on policies instituted by the new US President Donald Trump, including his controversial immigration and travel ban on seven Muslim countries, even as the Philippine leader announced that the Philippines would be open to accepting refugees with nowhere to go to. The President cited what the Philippines did when it accepted Vietnamese refugees in the late 1970s until early 1990s. The Philippines was then the […]
