Environmental justice advocates say a methane plume seen last month from space is the latest evidence that fossil fuel emissions must be reined in. Geoanalytics firm Kayrros SAS detected the plume of invisible greenhouse gas, which spanned 56 miles across Louisiana, Bloomberg reported. It’s the largest concentration of the gas seen via satelli...
A video of Indian policemen beating Muslim women advocating for wearing the hijab in school revived the controversy on Wednesday. The footage has been circulating on social media, and was broadcast by the local NDTV channel. It shows a group of women with their faces covered being approached by police before being struck by long […]
Three Kashmiri students have spent more than three months in jail now for celebrating the Pakistani cricket team’s win over India. Their families have appealed for their release as they struggle to bail them out. Arsheed Yousuf, Inayat Altaf and Showkat Ahmad Ganai — all in their early 20s — were arrested last October on […]
The hearing of the Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice or ICJ is set to begin Monday in the Hague. Members of the persecuted Muslim minority have growing concerns over allowing Burma’s ruling military junta to participate in court proceedings. They believe it would be tantamount to supporting decades of killings and [...
United Nations special envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg shed light Tuesday on the deteriorating situation in Yemen at the U.N. Security Council briefing. Grundberg called for an end to the devastating conflict that began in 2014, as civilian casualties surge and humanitarian aid dries up. Ending the war is a choice, he said. His comments [&helli...
An Uyghur high school principal in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region is serving 18 years in prison for inviting two Uyghur scholars to give presentations. Sherep Heyit is principal of No. 6 High School in Korla, the second-largest city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It has been three or four years since Heyit disappeared, accordi...
The U.S. ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom criticized a controversial hijab ban in schools by the Indian state of Karnataka. Rashad Hussain said in a tweet Friday that the ban would stigmatize and marginalize women and girls. He said “Religious freedom includes the ability to choose one’s religious attire.” India’s extern...
A Black Muslim education and media collective launched a new online exhibit on Feb. 2 featuring portraits of Black Muslims. These aim to highlight the beauty and diversity within the Black Muslim experience. They are captured in dramatic lighting and are paired with audio clips of the subjects. The project began as a conversation between [&hel...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he does not understand why U.S. President Joe Biden “knowingly gave false information on the invasion of Ukraine,” the Kremlin said. Putin spoke to reporters Saturday about the more than hour-long telephone call between him and Biden. Yury Ushakov, Russia’s presidential adviser on foreign policy issues, sa...
Afghanistan’s central bank on Saturday rejected U.S. President Joe Biden’s executive order to seize half of its $7 billion in assets held in American financial institutions. Da Afghanistan Bank said the decision to block their foreign exchange reserves and allocate them to “irrelevant” purposes is an injustice to the Afghan people. The bank sa...