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In a move seen as the culmination of the government’s campaign to “sinicize” Islamic architecture across the country, the last major mosque in China with distinctly Arabic features has undergone a dramatic transformation, the Guardian reported today. The Grand Mosque…

A massive landslide has devastated a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea, burying over 300 people and more than 1,100 houses, Reuters reported today. The landslide occurred around 3 a.m. on Friday in the Enga Province, approximately 600 km…

Armenia has returned four border villages to Azerbaijan, a crucial step in the efforts to normalize relations between the long-time rivals, Al Jazeera reported yesterday. The villages of Baghanis, Voskepar, Kirants, and Berkaber have been handed back to Azerbaijan, which…

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) approved on Friday a new international treaty to highlight the disclosure of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge in patent applications, UN News reported. Under the new treaty, patent applicants will be required to…

A journalist in Pakistan’s Sindh province has died from gunshot wounds sustained in an attack earlier this week, the fifth media worker reported killed nationwide in 2024, VOA reported yesterday. Nasrullah Gadani, who was critical of powerful feudal lords in…

The Saudi regime announced last Tuesday, May 21, 2024, the execution of the political detainee “Mohammed Al-Jawhar” from the Qatif region, media outlets reported. Media sources reported that the detainee “Al-Jawhar” was executed after being charged with terrorism-related offenses, including…

The Security Media Cell in Iraq announced last Wednesday the killing of two terrorists, one of them wearing an explosive belt, in the southern area of Rutba. The cell said, as reported by Shia News Agency, that “the Intelligence and…

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have proposed a new theory on the origins of the sun’s magnetic field, a phenomenon that has puzzled astronomers since Galileo first observed sunspots in the early 1600s. Contrary to previous beliefs that the magnetic…

The engineering and technical teams affiliated with the Secretariat-General of the Holy Shia Shrines have installed the dome of the shrine of Sayyid Muhammad, known as “Abu Drabash,” in Iraq’s Babylon, as part of the project to rebuild the holy…

Followers of the Shia faith in Afghanistan have criticized Taliban’s ban on the entry of Jafari jurisprudence books into the country and the collection of such books from state and private university libraries. According to them, access to religious information…