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New York will spend $50 million to spruce up 90 middle and high school cafeterias by the end of the year, with grab-and-go options and new kinds of seating. Along with expanding halal meal options, officials say it’s a way…

The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) plans to set up a fund for supporting elites and talented figures in the Muslim world. This was announced in a recent meeting of the ministers of the organization’s members states,…

The United Nations Secretary General urged Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to include all ethnic groups in the government, restore girls’ rights to education at all levels and women’s rights to work, and to stop all terrorist activity on its territory. Guterres…

Malaysian towns were left inundated with muddy water in the wake of torrential rains, footage shared on social media, showed on Wednesday, forcing more than 72,000 people to evacuate as rainfall and floods were forecast to persist. At least two…

Shia followers of the Ahlulbayt (peace be upon them) in Iraq and the Islamic world renewed their condolences to Imam al-Mahdi, may Allah Almighty hasten his honorable reappearance, on the martyrdom anniversary of the jurist of the Ahlulbayt, His Eminence…

The United Nations Secretary-General’s envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, said that the Syrians are facing a worsening humanitarian and economic crisis inside and outside the country, while the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, confirmed that six million Syrians…

The Spanish Ambassador to Iraq, Mr. Pedro Martinez, and his accompanying delegation had the honor of visiting the Kadhimiya Holy Shrine, and were warmly received  by the Deputy Secretary-General of the Holy Shrine. The delegation toured the archaeological, historical and…

The Afghan Hazara community in Auckland is in a state of shock and grief after the killing of a young woman in Massey, NZ Herald said. An Afghan Hazara leader in Auckland told the Herald a sense of fear and…

Afghanistan’s Taliban-run higher education ministry has said that female students would not be allowed access to the country’s universities until further notice. A letter, confirmed by a spokesperson for the higher education ministry on Tuesday, instructed Afghan public and private…

The special jeweler of the new Kiswa of Al-Abbas Holy Shrine, Abbas Abdel Moneim, explained the details of the distribution of precious stones and metals in the new Kiswa. Abdel Moneim said, “Pieces of precious stones such as sapphire, Feyrouz,…