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Ahead of the 13th of Rajab, the birthday of Amir al-Mu’minin, Ali Ibn Abi Talib, peace be upon him, the authorities of the Holy Alavi Shrine have prepared this blessed venue for the upcoming auspicious event. For this purpose, in…

Vienna, the capital of Austria, was the best city in terms of quality of life in 2023, according to a report by the “World Index” company published on its X platform. Vienna has won the title of the best city…

Zambia is reeling from a major cholera outbreak that has killed more than 400 people and infected more than 10,000, leading authorities to order schools across the country to remain shut after the end-of-year holidays. The Zambian government is embarking…

In a significant seismic event, a magnitude-5.6 earthquake rattled the region near Sola, in the Torba province of Vanuatu, an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers, a relatively shallow…

A polio programme official was killed and a policeman sustained injuries on Friday after unidentified assailants opened fire on a vehicle in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district. According to the police statement, unknown gunmen opened fire on Dr. Abdul Rehman’s…

A boat carrying a school group capsized in a lake in western India on Thursday, drowning 15 students and one teacher, local media reported. Eleven students were rescued when the boat capsized in Harani Lake in the city of Vadodara,…

As part of its continuous humanitarian and charitable activities, the Shirazi-affiliated Fayedul-Batul Foundation in Iraq’s Thi Qar governorate has distributed food baskets and winter clothing to need families. According to the foundation’s officials, the charitable activity included about 110 needy…

Tens of Shia missionaries and officials of cultural and religious centers and foundations in Iraq’s Basra governorate, accompanied by membets of the Shirazi-affiliated Ahlulbayt Cultural Foundation, visited the the son of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi, Hujjat-ul-Islam wa-al-Muslimeen Sayyid Ahmed al-Shirazi. The…

87 irregular migrants were rescued by Turkish coastguard in the Aegean Sea after Greek authorities allegedly pushed them back into Turkish territorial waters, Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. According to the article, coast guard units rescued 38 irregular migrants from two…

Nearly half of the 44 journalists imprisoned in China in 2023 were Uyghurs, according to a report released Thursday. Data from the Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ — which offered a global snapshot of journalists jailed for their work…