On the night of Friday 29 August, more than 300 people took to the streets of the Swedish town of Malmö after far-right activists had burned a Qur’an earlier that day. Danish anti-Muslim politician Rasmus Paludan had called for a protest in Malmö, but after permission for the protest had
The latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo is growing in magnitude and there seems now to be a threat of spread to neighbouring African countries. This eleventh outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Equateur Province, a north-western region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was
Lesbos, home to Europe’s largest refugee camp, was swamped by a fire on Tuesday, September 8th leaving 13,000 refugees without shelter. Among them were approximately 4,000 children. The Greek government has requested help from EU and non-EU nations to resettle those who have lost the little they had in the
On Monday this week, a Saudi court convicted eight people of murdering journalist Jamal Khashoggi, reported Reuters. Khashoggi, a seasoned journalist, was a strident critic of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, and prior to his murder had been living in exile in the
