INTERNATIONAL The European Union’s top court has ruled that companies within its members states can ban hijabs as long as it is done in a “general” way which does not constitute “direct discrimination”. The ruling, published by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday, concerned an ongoing dispute since 2018 between a Muslim woman in Belgium and SCRL, a company that manages social housing. The woman […]
INTRNATIONAL Turkish rescue teams are continuing to search for people trapped in a mine after an explosion on Friday killed dozens of workers. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said the death toll stood at 40 people and is expected to rise. The blast took place inside a mine in Bartin province, just north of Ankara, near the Black Sea. Koca said on Twitter that 11 of the 58 workers rescued so far […]
INTERNATIONAL Abdullah Odeh was sitting in his office in the local amusement park he owns in the northern occupied West Bank town of Huwwara when the Israeli attack began. "It was around 2.20pm when we heard the alarms go off on the cars parked outside," Odeh, 50, told Middle East Eye. "When we went outside, we saw a huge group of masked settlers descending upon us from the hilltop. "They started throwing […]
INTERNATIONAL The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its global growth forecast for 2023 as economic pressures collide, from the war in Ukraine, high energy and food prices and sharply higher interest rates. The IMF warned on Tuesday that conditions could worsen significantly next year and said it expected more than a third of the world’s economy to contract. “The three largest economies – the United States, China and the euro area […]
INTERNATIONAL Editor's note: The following is the full letter sent by senior Muslim leaders in Jerusalem to King Charles III, following UK Prime Minister Liz Truss's decision to review the location of the British embassy in Israel and consider moving it from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Dear His Majesty King Charles III, The Council of the Islamic Jerusalem Awqaf and Al-Aqsa Mosque Affairs, one of the institutions of the Hashemite King […]
INTERNATIONAL Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the increasing development of bilateral ties with the UAE in a meeting with his Emirati counterpart Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Tuesday. The UAE's president is meeting Putin days after a decision by Opec and allied producers, including Russia, to cut the group's daily production target by two million barrels, angering the United States. "Last year, the growth in trade turnover amounted to […]
INTERNATIONAL An Israeli soldier shot in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday has been pronounced dead following an attack claimed by Nablus-based Palestinian militant group Lion's Den, according to a spokesperson for the Israeli military. Security sources were searching for the gunmen, who opened fire from a passing car, according to Haaretz. The soldier was shot near Shavei Shomron, an Israeli settlement near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, during a settler march […]
LOCAL The Public Servants Association (PSA) says it is preparing for a strike in the public service after the majority of its members rejected the government’s salary increase offer. The PSA, which represents more than 235,000 public servants, declared a dispute when the government made an offer of a 2% salary increase. The government later improved the offer to a 3% pensionable salary adjustment, and the continued payment of the non-pensionable cash […]
LOCAL The UN General Assembly has elected South Africa, Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Morocco, Romania and Vietnam to the Human Rights Council for a three-year term starting on January 1 2023. Germany and Sudan also won second terms on the Geneva-based body, but South Korea and Venezuela failed to be re-elected. The 47-member council cannot make legally binding decisions, but its decisions carry political weight […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
