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Search and rescue operation resulted in recovering 245 bodies in a single day from the flood-affected city of Derna, the Libyan unity government announced on Friday. Storm “Daniel” caused massive havoc in the Central Mediterranean and struck eastern Libya on…

Bangladesh’s prime minister criticized United Nation’s indecisiveness on repatriating persecuted Muslim Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, warning that it can put the stability of the entire region at risk. “Last month we witnessed the completion of six years of the mass…

The daily scholarly meeting of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Sadegh al-Hosseini al-Shirazi was held on Thursday, the fifth of Rabi al-Awwal. In this session, like the previous meetings, the Marja answered the questions of the attendees about various jurisprudence issues. Grand…

Large numbers of the Shia followers of Ahlulbayt, peace be upon them, have commemorated the martyrdom anniversary of Imam al-Hassan al-Askari, peace be upon him, in Holy Samarra, amid an atmosphere of sadness and sorrow. The Shia Waves correspondent said…

The residents of the holy city of Karbala have commemorated the sorrowful anniversary of Imam al-Hassan al-Askari, peace be upon him, in Holy Samarra. The Shia Waves correspondent in Holy Samarra said that “Large crowds of the people of Holy…

The death toll in a truck bomb explosion that targeted a security checkpoint in a residential area in the central Somali town of Beledweyne has risen to 18, a top regional official said on Saturday. According to the director-general of…

Researchers at Stockholm University in Sweden have discovered that large amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, is leaking from unusual depths of the Baltic Sea seabed. The gas bubbles rising up 370 metres from the seabed were found in…

The Nagorno-Karabakh dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia is one of the historical disputes that will apparently never be resolved. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia and its neighbor Azerbaijan have been at odds over Nagorno-Karabakh, with the dispute…

The 8th of Rabi al-Awwal marks the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hasan al-Askari, the 11th Imam of Shiites. According to the historical tradition, the mourning of Shias does not end with the end of the months of Muharram and Safar,…

Rahile Dawut, a prominent Uyghur academic who disappeared six years ago at the height of the Chinese government’s crackdown in Xinjiang, has been given a life sentence in prison, according to Dui Hua, a California-based human rights group. A member…