TUNIS, Tunisia (MNTV) – Tunisian authorities said Sunday that the bodies of 11 irregular migrants had been recovered after their boat sank off the coast of the town of Ben Gardane in the country’s southeast. Houssem Eddine Jebabli, a spokesperson for the National Guard Directorate-General, told the state news agency TAP that search and r...
HAMBURG (MNTV) — Germany is confronting an uncomfortable truth about the far-right violence threatening its Muslim and migrant communities: increasingly, it is being carried out by children. That reality was underscored this month when a Hamburg court jailed eight members of a far-right terrorist group — some as young as 14 when they joined — ...
LONDON (MNTV) — In a country where British Muslim sporting success tends to be measured in cricket and football, a 14-year-old from Chelmsford is quietly rewriting expectations in a sport few would associate with his community: volleyball. Ayaan Syed was named the recipient of the Imams Hasan and Husayn Excellence in Children’s Award at ...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — Eleven-year-old Kashmiri racer Atiqa Mir has earned praise from world motorsport governing body FIA after a series of standout performances against older competitors in Europe, strengthening her reputation as one of the sport’s emerging young talents. Mir, who is from Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, comp...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Anger is growing among Christians and other minority groups in India’s western Maharashtra state over a controversial anti-conversion law passed by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party-led government, with analysts warning that its sweeping provisions could be used to target legitimate religious activity...
By Akhtar Pathan KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — As a teenager reading “Macbeth”, Ayesha Mian found herself captivated not by the tragedy alone, but by what she called the “madness of the human mind.” Why do people feel what they feel? What makes someone express anger, compassion or fear? How can the same person be capable of kindness […]...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A senior leader of a Hindu extremist group has triggered outrage in India after publicly portraying Muslims as habitual land grabbers and threatening them with bulldozers, invoking a symbol that has become closely associated with the demolition of Muslim homes, businesses and religious properties. Raghavendra Pratap S...
WASHINGTON (MNTV) — A U.S. federal religious freedom watchdog has urged Washington to impose targeted sanctions on members of India’s Hindu supremacist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh accused of involvement in religious freedom violations, bringing renewed scrutiny to the powerful organization ahead of its chief Mohan Bhagwat’s planned visit to th...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh has brought back 24 people, including six Rohingya refugees, who had been detained by the Arakan Army after fishing boats crossed into waters off Burma’s Rakhine State, as Dhaka continues efforts to secure the release of dozens still held by the powerful ethnic armed group. The group returned Wednesd...
SYDNEY, Australia (MNTV) — A new peer-reviewed study argues that Hindutva — the Hindu-nationalist ideology associated with India’s ruling movement — is being quietly normalized in Australia through routine dealings with governments, schools, and multicultural programs, the outlet AMUST reported. Published in Asian Studies Review, the stu...
