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Taliban officials have put the death toll from the two back-to-back 6.3 magnitude earthquakes that hit Western Afghanistan on Saturday between 2,000 and 2,400, warning that many are still unaccounted for in the remote quake region. While the world rushed…

Indian rescue teams are finding it difficult to reach flood-hit areas in the north-eastern state of Sikkim where more than 140 people are missing as the region is still experiencing bouts of heavy rain, Reuters reported on Saturday, October 7.…

Since conflict erupted in Sudan in April, Islamic Relief has delivered aid to more than 225,000 people, including the displaced and those in desperate need. The UK-based Islamic charity has provided cash support to victims so that displaced families can…

Recently, a Uyghur folklorist and ethnographer, Rahile Dawut, missing since 2017, was revealed to be serving a life prison for “separatism,”. Another Uyghur scholar, economist Ilham Tohti, who had vanished into Chinese custody years earlier was found to be experiencing…

The office of the Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, in Afghanistan’s Mazar-i-Sharif province distributed today, Monday, the monthly financial aids to thousands of families in the city. The office said in a statement followed by Shia…

World Mental Health Day is an international day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma. It was first celebrated in 1992 at the initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health in order to bring more…

The daily scholarly meeting of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Sadiq al-Hosseini al-Shirazi was held on Sunday, the 22nd of Rabi al-Awwal. In this session, like the previous meetings, the Supreme Marja answered the questions of the attendees about various jurisprudence issues.…

Hundreds of rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel in the early hours of Saturday, October 7, and dozens of Palestinian forces infiltrated Israeli settlements, news media have confirmed. The Israeli army, on Saturday morning, issued a statement and declared…

A series of powerful earthquakes followed by several strong aftershocks hit the western part of Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said. “Besides the 2,060 dead, 1,240 people are injured and 1,320 houses are completely destroyed,” said Abdul Wahid Rayan, spokesperson at…

Neo-Nazis threw stones at a mosque in the western city of Siegburg on Friday night, the latest in a string of attacks targeting Germany’s Muslim community. The assailants entered the masque complex at around 11:10 p.m. local time, smashed the…