International

HE DOESN’T always get it right. He has allowed architectural vandalism on Fish Island in Bow and equivocated over giving tenants power to resist developers making a profit out of them. But on Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK, ...

EAST LONDON football coach and humanitarian volunteer Emdad Rahman has spent a week with Sufian Refugees in Lebanon. The self-styled “Wandering Londoner” joined the UK-based Human Relief Foundation team on a charity deployment and spent time at various locations around Beirut. ...

Emdad’s Lebanon Diary Day 3 You don’t have to be a millionaire, a big shot, a celebrity to bring about change. If that were the case, then why do many people carry out unpaid service – stating that a simple ...

Emdad’s Lebanon Diary Day 4 I was supposed to chill before leaving today but, being the great leader that he is, I was invited by Human Relief Foundation big Chief Kassim Tokan to visit the Bourj El Barajne, one of ...

HORRIFYING abuses of human rights have been committed by the Myanmar army, claims a new report from human rights campaign Amnesty International. These include summary killing, torture, arbitrary arrest – and a vendetta against an ethnic Buddhist guerrilla group. The ...

NUSRAT JAHAN RAFI was just 19 when she was lured up to the roof of her Islamic school, doused with kerosene and set on fire. Now 16 people have been charged with criminal offences in connection with this murder. On ...

Emdad’s Lebanon Diary Day 2 We visited Arsal today. It is a Red conflict zone, but we had received special permission to enter the region and camps to meet the residents. After an information briefing from Badih, we travelled along ...

IF YOU THOUGHT the violence in Syria had ended – think again. It’s got so bad in Idlib that last Tuesday many mosques had to cancel Ramadan prayers – because buildings where crowds gather had were becoming targets. Over the ...

SEVEN SOLDIERS in the Myanmar army were sentenced to ten years in prison last year. They had been found guilty of killing ten Rohingya males, some of whom were boys. The soldiers were exposed by two brave Reuters journalists, Wa ...

Emdad’s Lebanon Diary Day 1 A sane human would never wander in desperation into the home of a complete stranger with outstretched arms unless that abode is a sanctuary safer than their own. I arrived at my hotel gone 4am. ...