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Humanitarian crisis rages on in Sudan as relief funding dwindles As Sudan’s civil war enters its sixth month, civilians are facing a colossal humanitarian crisis as relief funding dwindles and army-imposed restrictions strangle its delivery, Al Jazeera quotes aid groups.…

Afghanistan on Friday asked Pakistan to reconsider its decision to evict Afghan refugees. Afghan second Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi met with Obaid ur Rehman Nizamani, the charge d’affaires of Pakistan in Afghanistan, and discussed the recent tension between…

Four people were killed and many others were injured in a stampede on Friday during National Heroes’ Day celebrations on Mashujaa Day in the western Kenyan city of Kericho, police said. The incident occurred at around 03:00 local time when…

Gujarat high court sentenced four policemen on Thursday to 14 days’ simple imprisonment for contempt of court as they had violated Supreme Court’s orders about treatment of accused in police custody by flogging members of Muslim community in full public…

Northern Utah’s growing Shiite Muslim community won a $250,000 boost in its quest to preserve a historic Latter-day Saint chapel-turned-mosque. While Taylorsville’s Alrasool Islamic Center is the happy recipient of a highly competitive grant from National Fund for Sacred Places,…

Following this week’s terrorist attack in Brussels the Spanish far right Vox party has registered a proposal in Congress to suspend the granting of Spanish nationality and residence permits to people from Islamic countries, Euronews reported yesterday. Specifically, the party…

A national Muslim civil rights group said on Thursday that its moving its annual banquet out of a Virginia hotel that received bomb and death threats due to the Palestinians caught in the war. “In recent days, according to the…

A new study, published in the journal of Scientific Reports, has warned that Atlantic hurricanes are now more likely to quickly strengthen from weak storms than during the 1970s and 80s, according to new research published Thursday, which warned of…

An archery club in Birmingham, Crescent Archers has been set up in a bid to get more Muslim women to take part in sports. This news comes as a report published earlier this year by the Muslimah Sports Association (MSA),…

Burkina Faso’s health ministry has declared a dengue fever epidemic amid the deadliest outbreak in years in which more than 200 people have died and new cases are rising sharply. There have been 50,478 suspected cases and 214 deaths of…