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The emergency situations ministry in Kazakhstan said on Saturday that 14 people died in major forest fires caused by lightning in the northeast of the country. The ministry added that 316 people were evacuated and that the situation was under…

At least 27 people, most of them children, were killed when remnants of an old bomb exploded in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region on Friday, according to the state-run Somali National News Agency. At least 53 people have also been injured…

British Afghan designer Marina Khan has taken on the challenge to employ more of the country’s artisans as extreme restrictions on women working and the record unemployment make it exceedingly difficult to create opportunities in Afghanistan. Less than two weeks…

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has announced that over a thousand migrants have died in the central part of the Mediterranean waters in the last six months. According to IOM’s report, this figure shows a one-third increase in the…

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency said that the continuous access of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant to the dam’s water is very important to preventing the reactors at this site from melting. Rafael Grossi’s statement came…

President Yoweri Museveni has signed an anti-homosexuality bill into law which will mean that anyone who has been convicted of homosexual acts will face life imprisonment and some will even face the death penalty. The legislation was unanimously approved by…

Local sources revealed that the officials of the Saudi government have made it impossible for women to perform Ziyarah of the graves of the Imams of Baqi, peace be upon them, by building a wall around the Baqi cemetery. Prior…

Last October, Germany launched a humanitarian admission programme for Afghans at risk of persecution by that Taliban, with the ultimate goal of bringing up to 1,000 people from Afghanistan to Germany per month. However, it has been eight months and…

Hamdan Khaliq, a 14 year old boy died in St Kentigern’s Academy in Scotland. Police were called to the school in west Lothian following reports of ‘concern’ for a student. Family members have taken to social media to make people…

The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) has expressed concerns over the safety of Muslim traders in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. The council’s concerns come after a group of Muslim traders in the state were reportedly threatened by a right-wing…