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The head of Immortalizing Speicher Martyrs Committee, Mu’in Al-Kadhimi, demanded on Saturday to guarantee the rights of the families of the victims of the painful massacre of Speicher, who were captured and killed by ISIS when they took control of…

The Mesbah Al-Hussein Foundation for Relief and Development has discussed the issue of electricity in Holy Karbala, as part of its large developmental project for the Arba’een Pilgrimage. The director of the Karbala-based Foundation, Abdul Sahib Al-Kishwan stated to Shia…

Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees, residing in Bangladesh’s camps, have protested against the drastic cuts in food rations and claims that they are being pressured to return to Myanmar. The Muslim refugees, who fled persecution in Myanmar in 2017,…

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…