(AP) Bosnia is seeing a rise in coronavirus infections among migrants and refugees living in its camps, as it struggles to cope with one of the Balkans’ highest COVID-19 death and infection rates among the general population. More than 6,000 migrants are […]
(BBC) Only seven ambulances were free to treat people when the Manchester Arena explosion took place, the public inquiry into the attack has heard. Dr Edward Tunn, associate medical director for North West Ambulance Service (NWAS), said there was a delay in […]
(BBC) A paramedic has described the “chaos and confusion” at the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing and said initially there were not enough medics. Helen Mottram from North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) was triaging patients at Victoria railway station 46 minutes […]
(BBC) Critically ill casualties were “waiting for hours” to be taken to hospital in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena attack, an inquiry has heard. Senior paramedic Joanne Hedges was one of the triage officers overseeing patients who were being treated on […]
(BBC) A paramedic who helped those injured in the Manchester Arena bombing has told the inquiry into the attack about how she struggled to cope afterwards. Lea Vaughan was one of three paramedics who entered the City Room, where the bomb exploded, […]
(NY Times) With Ramadan less than a month away, some Muslim organizations in the United States have begun addressing a critical question: whether the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast prohibits Muslims from receiving vaccine injections during daylight hours. The executive director of the Islamic […]
(BBC) A sergeant who tended to the injured in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing has told of his desperation and frustration at the lack of paramedics. Greater Manchester Police Sgt Kam Hare was in charge of a team of officers […]
(BBC) A senior paramedic has told an inquiry he was wrong not to send three colleagues straight to the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing. Simon Beswick arrived at the arena 40 minutes after the blast, which killed 22 people and injured […]
(BBC) The only paramedic on scene in the first 40 minutes after the Manchester Arena bombing has told an inquiry he was not prepared for such a “large-scale and awful incident.” Patrick Ennis arrived at the arena ten minutes after the blast, […]
(BBC) A lone paramedic looked “completely overwhelmed” as he helped people who had been injured in the Manchester Arena attack, an inquiry has heard. Just one paramedic was in the foyer where the bomb went off for the first 40 minutes after […]
(BBC) A police officer who was among the first on the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing said he was left feeling “frustrated” at the lack of paramedics. Sgt Matthew Martin, from British Transport Police, told the inquiry into the 2017 attack […]
(AP) A Maryland man charged with planning an Islamic State-inspired attack at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C., was diagnosed with delusional disorder and refused to take psychotropic medication while in federal custody last year, a judge said in a […]
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(BBC) The ambulance service warned a year before the Manchester Arena bombing that lives would be lost if specialist medical help was delayed during a terror attack, an inquiry heard. It took more than two hours to deploy triage teams in a […]
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(AFP) After months of controversy and 135 hours of parliamentary debate, MPs in France are set to approve a draft law to crack down on what has been termed “Islamist separatism” on Tuesday. AFP examines what is, and what isn’t, in the […]
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(AP) A rescue ship with 422 migrants aboard, a small number of whom tested positive for COVID-19, was headed to a port in Sicily on Sunday. SOS Mediterranee, the humanitarian group which operates the rescue ship Ocean Viking, told the Associated Press […]
(NL Times) Concerns about a growing number of people prone to adopting radical ideas are highlighted due to the coronavirus. The National Support Center for Extremism (LSE) would receive a report about radicalization once a month before the pandemic; now there are […]
(Expats.cz) The Prague Municipal Court upheld a ruling by the Prague 10 District Court that halted the case of a Muslim nursing student who was not allowed to wear a hijab by her secondary school. The verdict has taken effect. The incident […]
(NY Times) The Pentagon has decided to offer coronavirus vaccines to detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, possibly starting next week, according to a prosecutor in the case against five prisoners accused of conspiring in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The prosecutor, […]
(Idaho Statesman) An Idaho woman said she dresses “like a Muslim” to dodge coronavirus mask wearing policies. A woman who identified herself as Katie Dugger told the Lewiston City Council that she wears “a burka” in public so she doesn’t have to […]
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(Algemeiner) US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) called Israel a “racist state” in an interview Tuesday with the left-wing news program Democracy Now!, and falsely claimed that it was denying coronavirus vaccines to Palestinians. “I think it’s really important to understand Israel is […]
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(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) A former University of Pittsburgh student who has a “fascination with terrorism” will remain incarcerated pending trial on charges that he threatened an FBI agent. U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Lanzillo ruled that Khaled Miah, 27, poses a potential threat to […]
(Politico) Rome is facing pressure to abolish its offshore quarantine system for migrants and refugees following a series of alarming incidents, including several deaths, over the past year. Since May, the Italian government has isolated asylum seekers on ships after they arrive, […]
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(Breitbart) Nearly half of those in intensive care units (ICU) due to complications from the Wuhan coronavirus across Sweden are from migrant backgrounds. A total of 46 per cent of those in ICUs in Sweden are from migrant backgrounds according to a […]
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(AP) A computer hacker serving 20 years for giving the Islamic State group the personal data of more than 1,300 U.S. government and military personnel has been granted compassionate release because of the coronavirus pandemic and will be placed in ICE custody […]
(BBC) Women are being offered controversial “virginity tests” at British medical clinics, an investigation by BBC Newsbeat and 100 Women has found. The intrusive tests are considered a violation of human rights by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations, which […]
(BBC) It is feared victims of female genital mutilation in England are not reporting cases because of delays and lockdown closures, charities have told the BBC. It comes as new figures revealed 635 new cases were recorded from July-September — a fall […]
(Reuters) France is split over plans to ban virginity testing, with some campaigners calling the procedure barbaric and others warning of violent repercussions for some Muslim women. Women in at least 20 countries are subjected to virginity tests, sometimes by force, as […]
(Reuters) A Swiss woman who knifed a victim in the neck and grabbed another by the throat in a Lugano department store on Tuesday was a known jihadist who fell in love with a militant online and tried in vain to meet […]
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(AFP) French police on Tuesday cleared a migrant street camp outside the Stade de France stadium north of Paris where around 2,000 people, mainly Afghan and African, had been living in cramped tents. Dozens of police were deployed to carry out the […]
(BBC) Plans to introduce a new law to improve safety and security at public venues and spaces has been delayed due to Covid-19, an inquiry has heard. The proposed legislation was drawn up following terrorist attacks in 2017 including the Manchester Arena […]
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(JTA) The ethics panel of Britain’s pharmaceutical regulatory agency ruled that a member’s claim that “Zionists” were guilty of “murder” in the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire was “offensive but not anti-Semitic.” The Practice Committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council declined on Thursday […]
(AFP) The Tunisian migrant who was shot and seriously wounded after killing three people in a knife attack on a French church last month was flown Friday from the southern city of Nice to Paris for treatment. Brahim Aouissaoui, 21, was flown […]
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