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FIFTEEN WORSHIPPERS were killed on Friday when the Grand Mosque in the village of Salmossi, Burkina Faso, was attacked by gunmen during prayers. Two other worshippers were injured. The village is in the north of Burkina Faso, one of Africa’s ...

BIMAN BANGLADESH AIRLINES has announced that from January it will operate direct flights from Manchester to Dhaka and Sylhet three times a week. The company will use state of the art Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft on the route. Biman, the ...

Muhammad Ismael EAST LONDONERS Abdal Ahmed and Emdad Rahman have returned to London after spending the weekend in Bosnia delivering sports coaching to young people. The sports coaches travelled to Sarajevo as part of an aid deployment to the city. ...

Emdad Rahman A GROUP OF East Londoners have returned to the UK after completing an aid deployment to visit Bosnia and meet with local families. The group spent four days in Sarajevo, where their activities included providing cows to needy ...

Sarajevo blog: Day 4 Emdad Rahman WE TOOK PART in a seminar with local youth leaders today, and each member of our delegation was invited to talk of their experience and advise the hosts on collaborative social care projects to ...

Sarajevo blog: Day 3 Emdad Rahman TODAY WE MET three families who have benefitted from receiving cows which have greatly helped them generate an income to support themselves. We were welcomed with open arms at each locality and afforded the ...

Sarajevo blog: Day 2 Emdad Rahman AN EARLY START to a productive day began with Fajr prayers at Ferhadija Masjid. With a strong and steaming hot Bosanska Kafa we were set for the day ahead, which involved meetings with various ...

Sarajevo blog: Day 1 Emdad Rahman WE ARE WITH the Bosnia Trust this weekend and will be spending the next few days delivering and surveying projects which we are supporting. We have spent Thursday travelling to our destination after a ...

THERE CAN’T BE many Councils in the UK which have banned charities from using their local parks – but Tower Hamlets Council is one of them, with officers’ reasoning only being discovered after Freedom of Information Requests. The Big Ride, ...

A YOUNG, WHITE Norwegian citizen has been charged with murder in the aftermath of a shooting incident at the Al-Noor Islamic Centre in the town of Baerum, on the outskirts of the capital, Oslo. No one was killed when the ...