New York City police have been recruiting immigrants, most of them Muslims, in the years following the attacks of September 11, 2001, to act as informants eavesdropping in cafes, restaurants and mosques, The New York Times reported on Sunday. Citing documents it had obtained and interviews with former and senior police officials, the newspaper said the department...
November 14, 2026
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Somali president wants aid airlift for towns retaken from rebels
Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud speaks during an interview with Reuters in Mogadishu, May 9, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/FEISAL OMAR Somalia needs help airlifting basic supplies to towns recently retaken by African Union-led forces because Islamist insurgents who were driven out from those areas are blocking aid convoys, the president told Reuters in an interview. President...
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Saudi Arabia’s top cleric says Nigeria’s Boko Haram smears Islam
Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Al-Sheikh DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti, the top religious authority in the birthplace of Islam, has condemned Nigeria’s Boko Haram as a group “set up to smear the image of Islam” and condemned its kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls. Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh said the radical movement, which says it...
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Experts: Why Kenya is a drinking nation
A woman breaks down in tears after seeing the body of a relative who died after drinking the lethal brew that has so far claimed 76 lives. PHOTO | CHARLES WANYORO NATION MEDIA GROUP By Caroline Njung’e On a Wednesday two weeks ago, an office worker took the afternoon off to attend a friend’s funeral....
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Somali man claiming refugee status in Canada is under investigation by the FBI and ‘may pose danger to the public’
By Stewart Bell BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty ImagesAlthough Ahmed Abdi Ismail has been detained almost two months now, the reasons for the FBI probe remain a mystery. “All we know is that the FBI is interested in him and has asked for him to be held,” Anthony Navaneelan, his Toronto lawyer, said Wednesday. A Somali described as...
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‘I am convinced that the practice of FGM can be stopped in Somalia’
Women in Somalia need our support. As refugees, we appreciate the life we have in Ireland Ifrah Ahmed: FGM is now illegal in Ireland and Ifrah hopes to stop the practice of it in Somalia. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Ifrah Ahmed I was born and brought up in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. In 1996 I...
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Boy who survived flight in wheel well ‘no longer in Hawaii’
A 15-year-old Somali boy who survived a nearly six-hour trip from California to Hawaii stowed away in the wheel well of an airplane has left protective custody in Hawaii, officials said on Saturday. The teenager was “no longer in Hawaii” according to a brief statement from Hawaii’s Department of Human Services. Officials would not reveal...
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Allah does work in unusual ways
Celine (now, Um-Khalthum) has nearly the same story as it has been with several women before her: Disenchanted with rituals and not so convincing ideologies in their faiths, they embarked on a spiritual journey in search of Truth… ultimately leading them to Islam. In Celine’s case, as she narrates the story here, however the search...
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Missing Somali man likely killed, Calgary police say
Calgary police believe a 25-year-old man who went missing in February was killed, but they have not identified any suspects. Suryan Giama was last seen by family Feb. 17 at a Woodbine home. Police recovered his vehicle about a month later in the Britannia-Elboya area of the southwest. Forensic evidence gleaned from multiple scenes in...
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EXCLUSIVE – Somalia, Kenya in diplomatic row over detentions
Somali Ambassador Mohamed Nur is back to Mogadishu for consultations by Yassin Juma NAIROBI, Somalia and Kenya are in a diplomatic row over an ongoing Kenyan security operation that has seen thousands of Somalis, including a diplomat, being rounded up in a few weeks. Somali Ambassador Mohamed Nur has been recalled to Mogadishu for consultations after...