Europe

The Italian capital hosted a two-day international conference under the title “Catholics and Shias Facing the Future” in the presence of scientific and religious figures from the world’s Shias from Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, France, England, and cardinals from…

Amsterdam has admitted the role that Dutch peacekeepers played in massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, offering apologies for this failure. The Netherlands offered its “deepest apologies” for the role played by Dutch peacekeepers in the Srebrenica genocide during the…

In yet another incident of anti-Muslim violence in Germany, a woman wearing a headscarf was physically attacked in the capital Berlin, local media reported Saturday. According to the daily Der Tagesspiegel, a 37-year-old attacker tore off the 39-year-old victim’s head…

Activists say the refugee crisis on the EU’s eastern borders is not over and will not end. The road to Europe via Belarus has become fixed, and is taken by migrants not only from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen, but…

A school principal in France insulted two veiled Muslim students for allegedly spreading Islam, according to a video clip published by the Coordination for Combating Islamophobia in Europe on its Twitter account. The video published by the Coordination indicated that…

The Labour MP, Apsana Begum, who has been signed off sick amid a “sustained campaign of misogynistic abuse”, is now facing a vote over whether she will be allowed to stand in the next election. The party confirmed the threshold…

Hanan Issa, a Welsh-Iraqi poet, film-maker and artist, has been named the fifth national poet of Wales. As national poet, Issa, who is due to serve a three-year term, will represent the diverse cultures and languages of Wales and act…

Today, Wednesday, the head of the Nigerian National Oil Corporation, Melle Kyari, announced the death of the Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Muhammad Barkindo. Kyari wrote on Twitter this morning: “We have lost the respected Dr.…

Finnish researchers have installed the world’s first fully working “sand battery” which can store green power for months at a time. The developers say this could solve the problem of year-round supply, a major issue for green energy. Using low-grade…

The leader of the “Stop Islamization of Norway” movement, Lars Thorne, burned a copy of the Holy Quran in a neighborhood where a large Muslim community lives on the outskirts of the capital, Oslo. The act angered a number of…