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Dozens of Afghan women demonstrated in the capital, Kabul, against the Taliban authorities’ deprivation of women’s right to work. The Afghan TV news channel, Tolo, which reported the news, stated that the female demonstrators expressed their complaints about the continued…

 Today, Wednesday, the Chairman of the Pakistani Shia Scholars Council, Sajid Ali Naqvi, warned of the dangers of drug spread and human trafficking, because of their negative effects on human societies.  Naqvi said in a press statement, which was followed…

The International Nonviolence Organization (Free Muslim) called on the leaders of the Arab countries to implement comprehensive reforms at various levels, and to search for ways to recover the deterioration occurring in their countries, according to a statement issued by…

A hundred days passed since Iranian authorities took the passport of Ayatollah Sayyid Hussein al-Shirazi, the eldest son of the supreme religious authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, imposing a travel ban on him. The government continues in its…

Today, Tuesday, the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization in the UAE revealed 50 rare Quranic manuscripts dating back to 14 centuries, and they are being displayed for the first time.  The daily newspaper ‘The National News’ said: “The displayed manuscripts…

The regional director of the United Nations International Fund for Children in Emergency (UNICEF), George Laryea-Adjei, on Sunday said that the flood devastation in Pakistan was massive by any scale as the agency alone was seeking $173.5 million for providing…

The Bahraini government is using its “political isolation laws” and a series of other tactics to keep the opposition out of public office and other aspects of public life, according to a report by NGO Human Rights Watch. The report…

Ahl al-Bayt Servants committee, affiliated to the Religious Authority in holy Karbala, began holding its annual mourning processions on the martyrdom anniversary of Lady Fatima al-Zahra, peace be upon her. Mourning processions are held periodically in holy city of Karbala,…

An Iraqi group of visitors from southern governorates arrived at the shrine of Sayyida Zainab (peace be upon her) after a journey that lasted for days, walking towards her sanctified shrine in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Shia Waves Agency monitored…

The head of the Muslim Students’ Union in the schools of the city (Gilder Land) in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, called on the government to declare Eid al-Fitr as a “school holiday” in the country, as part of the region’s…