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Portugal Face-Covering Bill Sparks Misleading Claims About Ban on Islamic Practices ———————————————– Claims circulating on social media alleging that Portugal has banned Islamic rituals or imposed penalties on religious practices have been found to be inaccurate, according to recent reports…

500 Economists Warn G20 Leaders About Explosive Growth in Wealth Inequality —————————————— More than 500 leading economists and experts—among them several Nobel Prize winners and a former U.S. Treasury Secretary—have called for the creation of a “Global Inequality Panel” ahead…

Damascus Returns Diplomatically to London; Syrian Embassy Reopens After a Decade —————————————— Syria’s foreign minister officially reopened the country’s embassy in London on Thursday, 13 November, marking the restoration of diplomatic presence after more than a decade of severed relations.…

Farewell to the Heat of Hajj: “Cooling Ihram” to Be Introduced for Pilgrims —————————————- Saudi Arabian Airlines has unveiled the “Ihram al-Abrad,” or cooling ihram, as a new generation of clothing for Hajj and Umrah pilgrims. This garment uses modern…

Brazil Unveils World’s Largest Statue of Our Lady of Fátima in Crato ——————————————– Authorities in Crato (Ceará state, Brazil) inaugurated on November 13 a 54-meter-tall statue of Our Lady of Fátima, marking what local leaders describe as the tallest memorial…

Webb Telescope Delivers First ‘Weather Report’ for Exoplanet SIMP J0136 ———————————- Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to generate the first comprehensive “weather report” for a rogue exoplanet, SIMP 0136, revealing strange atmospheric phenomena, according to Earth.com.…

UC Davis Engineers Generate Electricity from the Cold Night Sky —————————————— Engineers at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) have demonstrated a novel device capable of generating electricity by harvesting the natural cooling of the cold night sky, according…

Al-Abbas’s Holy Shrine Scientific Complex Highlights Quranic Reach and Education ————————————— The Scientific Complex of the Holy Quran at the Al-Abbas’s (peace be upon him) Holy Shrine has recently demonstrated its twin focus on Quranic scholarship and education through an…

COP30: WHO Warns Climate Change Is Driving a Global Health Emergency as Donors Pledge $300 Million ————————————————– Climate change is already causing a global health crisis, killing more than half a million people each year through extreme heat and threatening…

Genetically modified pig kidney survives record 61 days in human body ———————————– Scientists have kept a genetically modified pig kidney working inside a brain-dead male patient for 61 days – and successfully reversed two episodes of rejection, Anadolu Agency reported…