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The World Health Organization says the risk of polio outbreaks increases as the Taliban ban health campaigns in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan. This international organization warns that, as door-to-door medical campaigns have been limited in Kandahar, children in this…

UNICEF has expressed concern about the situation of needy children in the flooded areas of Pakistan one year after the devastating floods in this country, with millions of children still in need of emergency assistance with health, food and shelter.…

Iraq praised the position of the Danish government in criminalizing acts of insult to the Holy Quran. This came after law-makers of the Nordic country presented a bill to criminalize the burning of the Holy Quran and insulting holy books.…

In a rare visit to the predominantly Muslim Xinjiang province on Saturday, August 26, Chinese President asked the authorities of this autonomous region to maintain the “hard-won social stability in this area”. According to the Chinese state network, Xi Jinping…

The Iraqi Meteorological Organization has forecast rain and temperature drop during this week.According to the announcement of this organization, the weather will be cloudy and rainy in the central region on Monday. It adds that, during the night, thunder and…

In keeping with the directives of the supreme religious authority, Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Sadiq Shirazi, Zuwwar Al-Hussein Association will bring 280 visually impaired devotees of Aba Abdillah Al-Hussein, peace be upon him, from the city of Nahavand, Iran, to join…

The Misbah Al-Hussein Foundation for Relief and Development, one of the humanitarian organizations affiliated to the office of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi in Holy Karbala, has launched the “Pilgrim’s Chair” initiative to take the elderly, people with disabilities and the sick…

A school teacher in India has subjected a seven-year-old Muslim student to degrading treatment inside a classroom, asking his classmates to slap him and asking for him to be evicted due to his religion, a video now viral on social…

The Indian official newspaper “Live Hindustan” reported that a symbolic funeral was held for the martyrs of Holy Karbala in the predominantly Shia-populated city of Badagaon, Uttar Pradesh. The newspaper said in its report, translated by Shia Waves Agency, that…

As part of its monthly report on the best photos around the world, the semi-official Ukrainian newspaper “Zaborona” published a picture of a Shia pilgrim heading towards the holy city of Karbala. The newspaper said in its caption of the…