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The Sri Lankan Navy, today, rescued 102 Rohingya refugees, including 25 children, adrift on a fishing trawler in the Indian Ocean, Al Jazeera reported. The group was brought safely to Trincomalee, a port in eastern Sri Lanka. The refugees had…

Over 140 content moderators employed by a Meta contractor in Kenya have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and major depressive disorder (MDD), according to a report by The Guardian. The moderators, who worked…

Global coal consumption is expected to hit a record 8.7 billion tonnes this year, remaining at near-record levels for years due to a gas crisis stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, The Guardian reported yesterday. The International Energy Agency (IEA)…

Hundreds of Muslims on Sunday protested outside the Yuxi city government in Yunnan province, China, following the detention of Imam Ma Yuwei from the Yuxi Daying Mosque, RFA reported. The police arrested Ma while he was dining at a local…

Ayatollah Sayyid Hassan Hosseini Shirazi, a prominent religious and scholarly figure of the twentieth century, was martyred on May 1, 1980 (corresponding to the sixteenth of Jumada al-Thani 1400 AH) in a terrorist attack orchestrated by agents of Saddam’s regime…

The Muslim World League (MWL) has condemned the Israeli government’s decision to double the population of the annexed Golan Heights, Arab News reported today. In a statement, the MWL urged the international community to take action against what it described…

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has concluded historic hearings involving over 100 countries regarding legal accountability for the climate crisis, Al Jazeera reported yesterday. Spearheaded by Vanuatu and other Pacific island nations, the hearings, which began…

The UN Security Council has voted to renew sanctions against the al-Shabaab terror group in Somalia, extending them until February 28, 2025, Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. The resolution, proposed by the UK, received unanimous support from all 15 members of…

In northern Nigeria, children are being drawn into hazardous work in the country’s unregulated lithium mining sector, Euronews reported on Friday. In areas like Pasali village in Nasarawa State, children sort and bag rocks, often working in teams that handle…

A new survey by Germany’s Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) health insurer reveals that loneliness affects 60% of Germans to varying degrees. The study, based on a representative survey of 1,403 people conducted in May, found younger people are more impacted. Among…