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Africa is witnessing an exponential rise in cholera cases amid a global surge. Cases recorded on the continent in the first month of 2023 alone have already risen by more than 30% of the total caseload reached in the whole…

Activists have circulated on social media platforms a footage showing the damage one of the oldest mosques in India’s Gujarat experienced after Indian authorities demolished it publically. Activists and bloggers said in posts followed by Shia Waves Agency that “the…

Top UN officials called for creating a new institution to help locate tens of thousands of missing Syrians and bring peace to their families, as the General Assembly debated on Tuesday the human rights situation in the country. UN Secretary-General…

Workers at the ‘Muslim Welfare House’ mosque in the British capital, London, intensify their efforts in the great month of Ramadan to provide as much humanitarian assistance as they can. According to one of the organizers of this humanitarian campaign,…

Amnesty International has released its 2022 report headlined “The State of the World’s Human Rights” which found that double standards and inadequate responses to human rights abuses taking place around the world, fuelled impunity and instability, including deafening silence on…

The 37-year-old Humza Yousaf on Monday won the race to become Scotland’s new leader, its youngest and first Muslim, charged with reviving a faltering independence movement after Nicola Sturgeon’s long tenure. Yousaf emerged victorious with 52 percent of Scottish National…

At least 20 people were killed when a packed bus hit a bridge, overturned and burst into flames in southwestern Saudi Arabia on Monday, Saudi state media reported. Al-Ekhbariya TV said 29 other people were injured in the crash and…

According to researchers studying hardwood trees in northwestern Ohio, a century of global warming has extended the trees’ annual growing season by an average of one month. The scientists involved say that this research suggests implications for how well various…

At least 29 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their two boats sank off the coast of Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, the Tunisian coast guard said on Sunday. Separately, in the last four days,…

Indonesian officials have told media outlets that more than 180 Rohingya refugees landed in the country’s western Aceh province on Monday, the latest among hundreds who have fled by boat from desperate conditions in Myanmar and in camps in Bangladesh.…