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Americans spent $4.9 trillion on health care in 2023, amounting to $14,570 per person, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Health care spending rose 7.5% from the previous year, driven by increased service use, private…

The Women’s Office of the Albanian Islamic Community organized a two-day charity food fair outside its headquarters to support women battling cancer. Led by Fatima Karaj, the event saw participation from a team of volunteers who worked to ensure its…

Quebec’s government is exploring new measures to reinforce its secularism laws, including a potential ban on public prayer, CBC news reported. This follows the controversial Bill 21, passed five years ago, which prohibits public employees in certain roles from wearing…

Danish-Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi al-Khawaja marked 5,000 days of arbitrary detention in Bahrain on Monday, December 16, Human Rights Watch website reported. Arrested on April 8-9, 2011, al-Khawaja has faced severe torture and solitary confinement, with documented abuses by…

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have successfully created a lab-grown notochord, a crucial component in vertebrate development, SciTech Daily reported yesterday. This breakthrough, detailed in a study published on December 18, mimics early human trunk development and includes neural…

Researchers have identified the first-ever binary star system, named D9, near Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. This groundbreaking discovery, published in Nature Communications on December 18, challenges previous…

Since embracing Islam in the 1970s, Dutch researcher and thinker Abdel Wahid van Bommel has worked to provide a deeper understanding of the Holy Quran to Dutch society, with a particular focus on the younger generation. Among his most notable…

Iran is grappling with severe disruptions caused by an intensifying energy and currency crisis, compounded by historic regional tensions, local media outlets said on Wednesday. Major government services, including offices, schools, banks, and businesses in Tehran and other provinces, have…

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has passed a resolution calling for a global moratorium on executions, marking a significant step toward the abolition of the death penalty Amnesty International on Wednesday. In a vote on December 17, 2024, 130…

Over 140 content moderators employed by a Meta contractor in Kenya have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and major depressive disorder (MDD), according to a report by The Guardian. The moderators, who worked…