4th of August, the UK Telegraph paper reported that a halal supermarket in the Paris suburb of Colombes had been told by the local authority that it would be shut down unless it started to sell alcohol and pork. Colombes local authority claimed that all members of the local community would not be served properly

he Gambian parliament approved on Thursday, July 21st, 2016 the decision of the Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, to ban marriage for girls under 18 years. The parliament passed an amendment to the Child Protection Act of 2005, imposing exaggerated penalties on anyone involved in a marriage of a girl under the age of eighteen.

An airstrike has hit a maternity hospital in northern Syria supported by Save the Children, the charity has said. Two people were killed in the attack, and several others injured including a woman who was six months pregnant who lost her leg. Several babies were also hurt when their incubators crashed to the floor in the attack.

French warplanes affiliated to the coalition forces committed on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 in the Greater Toukhan village north of Manbij city in Syria, an appalling massacre resulting in the death of more than 200 civilians, mostly children, women and elderly, including entire families, and wounding dozens others.