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Without urgent investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement exacerbated by rising temperatures, resource scarcity and food insecurity, the UN Refugee Agency, warned on Wednesday. Communities across the Sahel rely…

Several Taiwanese NGOs recently extended support to Uyghurs’ struggle to build a sovereign nation and called others to take a stand against China’s oppression of the minority group, according to media outlets. “As human rights workers in Taiwan, the least…

The Swedish government continues to close down Islamic academic institutions in a bid to push “anti-Islamic rhetoric” and “stop privatization” in education. This is despite the fact that many of them are among the best-performing schools in the country. Earlier…

Lawmakers in the Philippines approved a bill on Tuesday, declaring February 1 every year as the National Hijab Day to raise awareness of the Muslim practice. With 274 votes in favor, House members approved House Bill (HB) 5693 or the…

The Supreme Religious Authority held the daily scientific session in his honorable house in the holy city of Qom, in presence of scholars, students and general Ahlulbayt followers. An attendee asked, “What is the ruling on selling and transiting blood?…

The University of Pennsylvania museum mission operating in the archaeological city of Nimrud near Mosul discovered the doorstep of the Assyrian king Adad-nirari III, with a well-preserved cuneiform inscription. These excavations came in the process of expanding the area excavated…

More than 100 Rohingya Muslims traveling in a boat for more than a month were found along the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province on Tuesday, the latest group of refugees believed to be making hazardous sea voyages from Myanmar, ABC…

Today, Iraqis commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of the eternal Twentieth Revolution, which the late Imam Mirza Sheikh Muhammad Taqi al-Shirazi issued a fatwa to combat the occupying British colonialism and expel it from Iraq.  The Supreme Religious Authority,…

Saudi Arabian authorities have deported hundreds of Ethiopian migrant workers after keeping them for months in detention centers across the oil-rich kingdom under conditions so degrading that they amount to ill-treatment. According to a report published by ‘The New Khalij’…

The Taliban terrorist movement tightened the screws even more on the Afghan people, after its leader, Hebatullah Akhundzadeh, issued orders to the judiciary to impose penalties and rulings that the movement deems to be an application of “Islamic law”. A…