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Poorer countries will begin to receive coronavirus vaccination doses early next year from a facility created to ensure fair access, the World Health Organization and its partners said Friday.Almost two billion doses of candidate vaccines have been secured for the…

An explosion at a religious gathering in central Afghanistan killed at least 15 civilians and wounded 20 others on Friday, the country’s interior ministry said, adding that children may be among the victims.Those killed and wounded were attending a Qur’an…

The Algerian government has said in statement that “the dangerous terrorist named Rizkan Ahsan, codenamed Abu al-Dahdah, who joined terrorist groups in 1994, was arrested.”The statement added, “The operation resulted in the retrieval of a Kalashnikov machine gun, three magazines,…

The International Nonviolence Organization, Free Muslim, called on Amnesty International to urgently intervene to save dozens of Bahraini youth activists in the field of rights from the threat of death sentences issued against them.In a statement, the organization said that…

The General Secretariat of al-Kadhumain Holy Shrine has reopened the doors of the holy shrine to pilgrims after a one-year closure due to Covid-19.The holy shrine in Kadhumiya, northern Baghdad, is the resting place of the 7th and 9th Imams,…

The last year ended with nation-wide protests against a series of controversial citizenship amendment laws passed by the government of India in December. And according to experts, the country has since become a “dangerous and violent space for Muslim minorities”.Throughout…

A deportation center in Riyadh is holding hundreds of mostly Ethiopian migrant workers in conditions so degrading that they amount to ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. Detainees alleged to Human Rights Watch that they are held in extremely overcrowded…

A member of the French Parliament on Wednesday accused Emmanuel Macron’s government of covering up crimes committed by the UAE at a factory in Yemen used as a secret prison.“How long will you continue to lie?” lawmaker Clementine Autain asked…

At least 13 Afghan policemen were killed when Taliban militants attacked two checkpoints overnight in the north of the country, officials said Wednesday.The militants stormed and briefly held the checkpoints on the outskirts of Pule Khumri, capital of northern Baghlan…

Bahrain’s King Hamad issued a royal decree, pardoning 169 prisoners, who have served part of their jail terms for various reasons, without including prisoners of conscience and political prisoners.The pardon was announced on the occasion of Bahrain’s National Day commemorating…