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An estimated 15.8 million people in war-ravaged Afghanistan will experience crisis and emergency levels of food insecurity in 2024, said a United Nations (UN) report released Thursday. According to the 2023 UN Afghanistan Annual Results Report, the majority of Afghanistan’s…

A new report has warned that more than 70 percent of workers around the world, over 2.4 billion workers out of a global workforce of 3.4 billion, are exposed to excessive heat and other climate-change-related health hazards. The report, released…

Over 80 earthquakes, the strongest of 6.3 magnitude, rattled Taiwan’s east coast starting Monday night and into the early hours of Tuesday and some caused shaking of buildings in the capital Taipei, Reuters reported citing the island’s weather administration. The…

Shia followers of the Ahlulbayt, peace be upon them, in the city of Majunga, Madagascar, celebrated the opening of Sultan al-Mu’allifeen Hussainiya. This Husseiniya was constructed by efforts from the Shirazi Religious Authority, affirming the role of Hussainiyas in spreading…

The Secretariat-General of the Shia Shrines in Iraq announced today, Monday, that it had completed rehabilitating dome of the shrine of Alama Muhammad Bin Nama Al-Hilli (may his soul be sanctified) in the province of Babylon, as part of efforts…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has warned of grave threats to the lives of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar due to the fighting in Rakhine State between the armed forces and the Arakan Army, stating that “alarm bells”…

The Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, has emphasized during a religious session the role of religious missionaries in spreading the knowledge and ethics of the Ahlulbayt, peace be upon them, which humanity greatly needs in this…

Europe faced a record number of extreme heat stress days in 2023, according to the European Union’s Copernicus climate monitoring service and the World Meteorological Organization. The continent experienced a July heatwave that affected 41 percent of southern Europe, along…

One person was killed and three others were injured in a blast in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Saturday evening, local authorities reported. According to reports, the blast from a ‘sticky bomb’ planted on a minibus occurred in the Kot-e-Sangi neighbourhood,…

Southern China was hit by heavy rains on the weekend, causing flooding in homes, streets, and farmland, CNN reported today. Tens of millions of people are at risk as rescuers work to evacuate those trapped by rising waters after at…