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According to the monthly asylum data published by Eurostat today, a total of 83,385 first-time asylum applicants (non-EU citizens) applied for international protection in EU countries, indicating a 25% increase compared with June 2022. The report also points out that…

Secretariat of Imam Hussein Shrine and other holy shrines in Iraq attended a meeting held in the Prime Minister’s Office regarding the construction of a monorail between the two provinces of Najaf and Karbala. The Representative of Imam Hussein Shrine…

BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri, whose egregious communal comments in parliament have ignited massive outrage, received a warning today of “severe action” from Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. In a video from Lok Sabha, Mr Bidhuri repeatedly hurls abuses and Islamophobic…

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has said in his opening remarks to the Climate Ambition Summit at the United Nations Headquarters in New York that “Humanity has opened the gates to hell. Horrendous heat is having horrendous effects”. Guterres…

UNESCO World Heritage Committee registered five mosques dating to the medieval era in Turkey as World Heritage sites during its 45th session, which was held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. These wooden mosques are located in the Anatolian…

A deadly tornado hits the eastern city of Suqian, China. The tornado also resulted in the loss of five lives and injured four others, leaving families and communities in mourning. The tornado hit the city on Tuesday afternoon, being the…

A recently published report by the United Nations has registered 1,600 cases of human rights violations in Taliban detention centers. According to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), these human rights violations were recorded in 29 provinces from…

The lower house of Switzerland’s parliament voted Wednesday to give final legislative passage to a ban on face coverings, such as the burqas worn by some Muslim women, the Swiss SRF said. The National Council voted 151-29 for the legislation,…

At least 30 refugees have died of hunger and malnutrition in Ethiopia’s Gambella region, said Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on Wednesday, calling for the immediate resumption of nutritionally adequate food assistance to all refugee communities. Close to 400,000 refugees…

The British ambassador to Iraq, Stephen Hitchen, said on Tuesday evening, during his visit to the holy city of Karbala and his meeting with the Governor Nassif Al-Khattabi, “Karbala is a unique and exceptional city”. “My visit to Karbala carries…