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Thick smoke has enveloped extensive areas of the Brazilian Amazon on Thursday as the region grapples with a surge in wildfires and a historic drought. In Manaus, a city of 2 million, air quality ranked among the worst globally, leading…

Human rights experts and campaigners have warned against an intensifying crackdown on climate protests across Europe, The Guardian reported yesterday, October 12, adding that research found countries across the continent using repressive measures to silence activists. In Germany, France, Italy,…

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday said a humanitarian corridor in besieged Gaza is necessary to provide medical services, supplies and protect civilians. “We need a corridor to provide medical services. One, is to protect civilians.…

UN officials confirmed on Thursday that more than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children. According to Taliban officials, Saturday’s earthquake killed more than 2,000 people of all ages and genders…

Pakistani media news agencies documented new study which confirms that with the elections drawing near, Pakistan is witnessing an escalation of sectarian violence, primarily targeting religious minorities including Shia Muslims. The recent study conducted by Dr. Zakaria Kareem revealed that…

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…