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Dozens of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurants have closed in Malaysia following a months-long economic boycott over the American fast-food chain’s perceived links to Israel, The New Arab said in its report released yesterday. According to Reuters, the KFC branches operating in…

Nearly five million Sudanese are close to famine as the country’s civil war passes the one-year mark, Reuters said in its recent report. According to statements from aid officials, the warring parties – the army and the Rapid Support Forces…

The Holy Karbala-based Misbah Al-Hussein Foundation for Relief and Development, one of the charities affiliated to the office of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi, in cooperation with the IHC and IHTV Group, organized another entertainment program for the orphans in the holy…

A groundbreaking new study has found that a healthy lifestyle can offset the genetic risk of premature mortality by over 60%, the Guardian reported yesterday. The research, published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, analyzed data from over 350,000 participants in the…

A recent survey has revealed a startling statistic – more than 50,000 unaccompanied child migrants have gone missing after arriving in Europe. According to an Anadolu Agency article published yesterday, the “Lost in Europe” project, which gathered data from 13…

Malian forces have killed a senior Islamic State commander, Abu Huzeifa, during a joint security operation with Burkina Faso and Niger, VOA reported yesterday. Huzeifa, a Moroccan national, was wanted for acts of terrorism and the deaths of civilians and…

In a move that escalates the ongoing battle over the use of online data to power artificial intelligence, eight major U.S. daily newspapers have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, the New York Times reported yesterday. The publications, owned…

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has condemned the Monday attack on a Shia Mosque in the Guzara district of Herat, calling for an immediate investigation into the incident. More details in the following report: The United Nations…

At least seven people, including a child, were martyred, while others were wounded in an attack by unknown armed assailants on a Shia mosque in the Herat province in western Afghanistan. According to local Afghan media reports, monitored by Shia…

A fishmonger from the coastal area of Satkhira in southwestern Bangladesh, Mohammad Habib Rahman, has embarked on a journey to write the largest hand-written Quran in the world. Away from the storms and floods that hit frequently the country, Habib…