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A Uyghur woman, Heyrinisa Memet, was sentenced to 14 additional years in jail just days after completing a 10-year sentence for teaching the Quran to teenagers at the request of neighbors, RFA reported today. Memet is one of several Uyghurs…

In 2023, global conflicts resulted in a significant rise in civilian casualties, with child deaths tripling and women fatalities doubling compared to the previous year, according to the United Nations. Overall civilian deaths increased by 72 percent, as reported by…

Nigerian students returning from the mid-term break and Eid holiday face a heightened risk of contracting cholera, caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, UNICEF has warned. Public health experts caution that the food and water-borne disease could rapidly spread in…

The Imam Ali Holy Shrine has begun preparing hundreds of thousands of fresh flowers to adorn the shrine in celebration of Eid al-Ghadir, the Greatest Eid of God. Barq Hadi, an official in the Decoration Unit, told Shia Waves Agency…

The Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, remembered with great sorrow the anniversary of the passing of the leader of the 1920 Revolution, Imam Mirza Sheikh Mohammad Taqi al-Shirazi, may Allah Almighty have mercy on him. Grand…

A fire erupted in a Faisalabad home in Pakistan on Wednesday after a laptop exploded while charging, leaving two children dead and seven others injured, Dawn newspaper reported today. The injured, including women and children as young as three, suffered…

An Ahmadi place of worship in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir was attacked by a mob of over 150 extremists on the first day of Eid al-Adha, News Intervention reported yesterday. The attackers, identified as members of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) group, vandalized…

Kenya’s National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) has reported a worsening drought crisis, with 1.9 million people in 23 arid and semi-arid counties currently in need of food aid. The situation is expected to further deteriorate between June and August. The…

The United States is sharpening its counterterrorism efforts in Somalia as concerns grow over the resurgence of the ISIS terror group in the Horn of Africa region, VOA reported yesterday. U.S. officials warn that IS’s regional affiliate, known as IS-Somalia,…

Global spending on nuclear weapons surged by 13% to reach a record $91.4 billion in 2023, according to estimates from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), reported by The Guardian. This increase, which is $10.7 billion more than…