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Young Recyclers Transform Cairo’s Garbage City, Tackling Plastic Pollution ————————— Manshiyet Nasr, a neighborhood on Cairo’s outskirts known as Garbage City, is home to 200,000 residents who handle up to 80% of the city’s waste, The Guardian reported. Despite its…

Billions Wasted: Global Gas Flaring Reaches 17-Year High ——————– The amount of gas burned off by the fossil fuel industry hit its highest level since 2007 last year, releasing as much climate-warming pollution as the entire country of France, The…

Heavy monsoon rain leaves many dead in Pakistan, reports weather tracker ——————————— The south-west monsoon brought deadly rains to Pakistan this week, killing at least 63 people, The Guardian reported. Originating as showers in north-west India, a low-pressure area merged…

Serious Pollution Incidents by English Water Companies Rise 60% in 2024 ————————— Serious pollution incidents caused by English water companies increased by 60% in 2024, The Guardian reported based on Environment Agency data. There were 75 serious incidents last year,…

Brazil Passes Controversial ‘Devastation Bill’ Weakening Environmental Protections ——————————— Brazil’s Congress has approved a highly contentious bill that significantly weakens the country’s environmental safeguards, raising fears of increased deforestation and harm to Indigenous communities, The Guardian reported. The legislation, known…

Escalating Violence in Southern Syria Claims Nearly 600 Lives, Displaces Thousands ——————————— Recent sectarian violence in southern Syria, primarily between the Druze community and Bedouin groups, has resulted in nearly 600 deaths, BBC reported according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory…

Commemoration of Ten Nights of Sajjadieh Held at Ale-Yasin Mosque, Hussainiya in Sydney —————————— Coinciding with the sacred month of Muharram 1447 AH, the Ten Nights of Sajjadieh ceremony was held with diverse and spiritually rich programs at the Ale-Yasin…

New Zealand’s National Library to destroy copies of Quran, Bible, Torah ————————————- The National Library in New Zealand is destroying over 500,000 overseas-published books, including sacred texts like the Quran, Bible, and Torah, to save about $1 million annually in…

Oxford University Press to halt publishing China-sponsored science journal ————————— Oxford University Press (OUP) announced it will cease publishing the academic journal Forensic Sciences Research (FSR) after 2025, following ethical concerns about several studies involving DNA samples from ethnic minorities…

Bahrain Plans $17-Billion Investment in US Industry, Tech, and Energy ————————— Bahrain has announced a $17 billion investment plan targeting U.S. industries, aviation, technology, and energy sectors, with the goal of creating jobs and enhancing cooperation, Khaama Press reported. The…