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Pope Leo XIV Condemns Usury as “Grave Sin” ——————————————— Pope Leo XIV has strongly condemned usury, calling it a “grave sin” that exploits the poor, destroys families, and corrodes human dignity, Muslim Mirror reported. Speaking to Italy’s National Anti-Usury Council,…

Syria’s Post-Conflict Reconstruction to Cost at Least $216 Billion: World Bank —————————————- According to a report by the World Bank, Syria faces a staggering reconstruction bill of at least $216 billion, as the country recovers from over a decade of…

UN Warns Global Conflicts Have Deepened Violence and Deprivation Against Women ————————————— The United Nations has warned that the growing number of wars and conflicts worldwide has created an unprecedented threat to women’s security and rights. According to the latest…

Al-Azhar Warns Against Use of AI for Anti-Muslim Election Propaganda in India ———————————- Al-Azhar’s Observatory for Combating Extremism has warned against the alleged use of artificial intelligence (AI) by India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to create inflammatory campaign videos…

Shia Residents of Daikundi Donate Over 1 Million Afghanis to Earthquake Victims in Eastern Afghanistan Local officials in Afghanistan’s Daikundi province announced that residents of the predominantly Shia region have raised over one million Afghanis to assist victims of the…

Major Internet Outage: Hundreds of Global Websites and Services Disrupted ———————————- A large-scale internet outage disrupted access to hundreds of major websites and apps worldwide on Monday, following a technical failure in Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the world’s…

UK Hosts Global Hazara Solidarity Day in Canterbury ———————————— The Hazara Association in Britain marked Global Hazara Solidarity Day with a large gathering in the city of Canterbury, attended by members of the Hazara community as well as several cultural…

French Scholar: “The West Sees Islam not as a Different Culture but as an Existential Threat” —————————————- French scholar and specialist in Eastern studies, Olivier Roy, in an analytical interview observed that the Western view of Islam has shifted from…

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Atlas, Targets Google Chrome Market Share …………….. OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered web browser integrated with its popular chatbot, in a move challenging Google Chrome’s dominance, Reuters reported. The browser allows users to access a…

UK Removes Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham from Terror List …………….. The British government has removed Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former al-Qaeda affiliate that led the Syrian rebel alliance which helped oust President Bashar al-Assad, from its list of banned terrorist…