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A white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at mosques in Christchurch in March 2019, the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s history, has filed an appeal against his life sentence, a court spokesperson said on Tuesday. No hearing date…

Today, Tuesday, media outlets reported the arrest of a number of Rohingya Muslims in occupied Myanmar, while they were trying to travel by boat from their country to Malaysia to escape the oppression of the authorities and takfiri groups. The…

Two Rohingya refugees were killed and five others were injured in Myanmar on Friday when several mortar shells hit their villages during a battle between the junta forces and a rebel group, raising panic among refugees living in Bangladesh’s camps,…

Authorities in Xinjiang collected the bodies of Uyghur residents in the northeastern city of Ghulja who died during a strict coronavirus lockdown but did not inform the families of the deceased about whether they handled their remains according to Islamic…

With nearly two billion Muslims in the world and rising demand for halal products, there is potentially a huge market for Vietnamese companies to exploit, experts said. Deputy director of the HCM City Investment and Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC) told…

The London-based NGO ‘Save the Children’ estimates that half of Afghanistan’s families have put their children to work out of economic necessity. Children as young as 4 cab be seen working at kilns. The situation has gone from bad to…

In a joint statement, 50 countries from around the world condemned Chinese violations against Uyghur Muslims. A joint statement by “50 countries” from around the world condemning Chinese violations against Uyghur Muslims “50 countries” signed a joint statement condemning the…

Nearly a decade after fleeing China, more than 50 Uyghurs remain in Thai detention facilities, living in constant fear of being returned as China has been accused of grave human rights abuses.  “The situation is appalling,” a source told AFP,…

A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 151 people and injuring 82 others in South Korea’s worst disaster in years. Emergency workers…

The Sharjah International Book Fair hosted rare Arabic and Islamic manuscripts dating back hundreds of years, some of which were displayed for the first time in the Middle East, and others dating back to the seventh century AH. The collection…