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Brushing aside pressure from various Muslim countries to stop cremating Muslim bodies, Sri Lanka on Thursday declared that it will continue to cremate all the bodies that have died of COVID-19.Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi told the Parliament on Thursday, stressing…

Protests denouncing the killing of several Shia Hazara workers have entered the seventh day and it is possible that they will continue until at least mid-January.Opposition parties, civil groups, and Shia religious groups are demanding action regarding the ISIS-claimed attack…

The International Nonviolence Organization, Free Muslim, appealed to the High Commissioner for Refugee Rights to provide relief to refugees in Bihac camp in the state of Bosnia.The organization said in a statement, received by Shiawaves, that it was informed, through…

Those who wish to perform the Umrah pilgrimage are advised to take the Covid-19 vaccine shot, Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Hajj and Umrah Muhammad Saleh Benten has said.Benten said that all the precautionary measures and preventive protocols are being followed…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he is grateful to the people who convert to Islam for carefully conserving Christian monuments in Syria.In an interview with journalist Yevgeny Poddubny, Putin added in the documentary “There is no room for error. The…

Despite Prime Minister Imran Khan’s request to move ahead with the final rites of the slain miners and an assurance that he would visit them “very soon”, Balochistan’s Shia Hazara community continued to protest for a fifth straight day on…

The family of political prisoner Sheikh Zuhair Ashour has complained that they haven’t heard any news about him since July last year.Sheikh Zuhair Ashour faces an unknown fate as he was subjected to enforced disappearance.Ashour and others were placed in…

The Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate announced the arrest of three terrorists in Samarra, Salah al-Din province.The directorate stated in a statement, that “among its tasks is to pursue the remnants and sleeper cells of ISIS, and with accurate intelligence information…

The German government in 2020 approved arms exports worth more than a billion euros to countries involved in the conflicts in Yemen and Libya.For Egypt alone, exports of weapons and military equipment worth 752 million euros (913 million dollars) had…

A security leader in Anbar Province, Qatari Al-Obeidi, stated that three ISIS terrorists were killed in armed clashes in western Anbar.Al-Obeidi said in a statement, that a security force from the army clashed during the implementation of a security duty…