34 h. ago Thousands of Muslims start celebrations for Eid at Cardiff park

It comes ahead of the main Eid-ul-Adha festival which will take place in the city on Saturday

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34 h. ago Thousands worship inside huge sports complex as Manchester's Muslim community celebrate Eid al Adha 2025

Organisers changed plans due to rain

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56 h. ago Muslim pilgrims seek forgiveness and shade on Mount Arafat during key Hajj ritual

Tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims are spending the day in prayer in Arafat to fulfil a key ritual of the Hajj in Saudi Arabia

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1 week ago Thousands of Israelis join violent, racist march through Jerusalem’s Muslim quarter

State-backed flag day march shut down Palestinian life in Old City to celebrate Israel’s 1967 annexation of East JerusalemThousands of Israelis have joined a state-funded march through the Muslim quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem, where large groups chanted racist slogans including “Gaza is ours”, “death to the Arabs” and “may their villages burn”.The annual march, paid for and promoted by the Jerusalem city government, celebrates Israel’s capture and occupation of East Jerusalem and its holy sites in the war of 1967. The Israeli takeover is not recognised internationally. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Liverpool title parade LIVE: Start time, route and live stream as Reds continue celebrations

Liverpool's Premier League title party continues on Bank Holiday Monday as the team will parade through the city, showing off their trophy after a champion season

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1 week ago Liverpool title parade: Route and start time for Premier League celebrations today

Open-top bus parade set to follow a 15km route through the city

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1 week ago Liverpool title parade: Route, date and start time for Premier League celebrations today

Open-top bus parade set to follow a 15km route through the city

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1 week ago A basketball player was sidelined for her headscarf. France may now ban them in all sports

Thousands of young Muslim women in France are sidelined from competitive sport because rules in several disciplines ban uniforms and other clothing carrying a religious or political significance

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1 week ago A headscarf ban is keeping basketball players off the court. A new bill could make it law in France

Thousands of young Muslim women in France are sidelined from competitive sport because of rules in several disciplines including basketball that ban uniforms and other clothing carrying a religious or political significance

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2 w. ago Original Sin book review: How we were fools to be fooled by Joe Biden’s people

Since this book was written we have learned Joe Biden has prostate cancer. The sad news was greeted with sympathy from all sides of the political divide, including Donald Trump. That would have been the response if, as president, Biden had declared in 2023 that he wasn’t going to run again on the basis of his age; there would have been lots of love, as there was at the start of George Clooney’s celebrated open letter to Biden in The New York Times telling him he loved him, but it was time to go.

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4 w. ago Chinese troops march with Russian forces as Xi joins Putin for Victory Day parade

Moscow stages largest Victory Day parade since start of Ukraine war with Putin using celebrations to justify invasionRussian troops fighting in Ukraine marched together with Chinese forces on Moscow’s Red Square to mark the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat, in a Victory Day celebration marked by greater spectacle than in recent years.After several scaled-back Victory Days – with reduced military displays and few foreign guests – Vladimir Putin on Friday addressed the largest parade since his 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “The Soviet Union took upon itself the most ferocious, merciless blows of the enemy,” the Russian president said of the victory over Nazi Germany, before turning to his invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...

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