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Extreme weather, drought kill thousands of fish in Mexico

Extreme weather, drought kill thousands of fish in Mexico

Due to extreme heat and drought, thousands of dead fish floated on the surface of the Bustillos Lagoon, near the town of Anahuac in Chihuahua in northern Mexico over the weekend, Reuters reported. In addition to lack of rainfall, temperatures…
Umme Abiha Institute Donates Household Items to Orphan Families of Karbala

Umme Abiha Institute Donates Household Items to Orphan Families of Karbala

Umme Abiha Institution, one of the centers affiliated to Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Sadiq al-Hosseini al-Shirazi in the holy city of Karbala, implemented another charitable activity to help the orphan families under its protection. On the occasion of the happy and…
Militant Killed, 7 Security Personnel Wounded in Kashmir Clashes

Militant Killed, 7 Security Personnel Wounded in Kashmir Clashes

In the latest violence in Indian-administered Kashmir, a suspected militant was killed and seven security personnel were wounded in separate clashes, Arab News reported today. The first incident occurred late Tuesday night in a border village near Pakistan, where security…
Conflicts Push Displacement, Immigration Trajectories as Refugees Continue to Perish En-Route

Conflicts Push Displacement, Immigration Trajectories as Refugees Continue to Perish En-Route

War and civil conflicts around the world are pushing displacement and migration trends to unprecedented levels, particularly in Asia and Africa. The number of internally displaced people in Sudan has hit more than 10 million as war drives about a…
Muslim schools in France lose government funding, Reuters reports

Muslim schools in France lose government funding, Reuters reports

Reuters has recently published a report highlighting the difficulties Muslim schools are facing in France under the current government. According to the report, the French government has introduced laws granting local authorities extensive powers to strip institutions, including private schools,…
Air pollution, other weather phenomena linked to millions of premature deaths, new study finds

Air pollution, other weather phenomena linked to millions of premature deaths, new study finds

Pollution from man-made emissions and other sources like wildfires have been linked to around 135 million premature deaths worldwide between 1980 and 2020, according to a new study released on Monday by Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. Weather phenomena like El…
UN to host largest global conference on rights of persons with disabilities

UN to host largest global conference on rights of persons with disabilities

The United Nations is hosting the largest global meeting focused on the rights of persons with disabilities today, Tuesday, known as the 17th Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, or COSP17. The…
Elephants call out to each other using individual names, a new study finds

Elephants call out to each other using individual names, a new study finds

Elephants call out to each other using individual names that they invent for their fellow pachyderms, a new study has found. According to the study published in journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, elephants are the first non-human animals known to…
Pakistan to experience severe heat wave this week, local officials warn

Pakistan to experience severe heat wave this week, local officials warn

Most parts of Pakistan, especially its plain areas, will experience hot weather this week, the country’s meteorological department warned on Monday. According to official reports, Pakistan remained in the grip of a severe heat wave last month that saw temperatures…
Armed Conflicts Reach Record Levels Globally in 2023

Armed Conflicts Reach Record Levels Globally in 2023

A new report from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) has revealed that global conflict levels have reached their highest point since the end of the Cold War, said reliefweb. The data shows that 2023 saw a record number of…
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