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Stunning Satellite Photos Reveal Great Lakes Buried in Snow

Stunning Satellite Photos Reveal Great Lakes Buried in Snow

In mid-December 2024, a fierce winter storm swept across the Great Lakes region, resulting in significant snowfall and icy conditions. Satellite images captured by NOAA-21 on December 12 revealed the extent of the storm, with both natural-color and false-color views…
UN: West and Central Africa Experiences Deepening Food Crisis

UN: West and Central Africa Experiences Deepening Food Crisis

Over 40 million people in West and Central Africa are struggling with food insecurity during the 2024 post-harvest season, a number projected to rise to 52.7 million by mid-2025, Reliefweb.com reported yesterday. This includes 3.4 million facing emergency hunger levels.…
EU Islamophobia Report reveals widespread anti-Muslim racism across Europe

EU Islamophobia Report reveals widespread anti-Muslim racism across Europe

The European Islamophobia Report 2023 has exposed widespread anti-Muslim racism across Europe, citing discriminatory laws, hate crimes, and the erosion of fundamental rights as key concerns. The report urges European governments to adopt immediate and comprehensive measures to address these…
Swiss Parliament Recognizes ISIS Crimes Against Yazidis as Genocide

Swiss Parliament Recognizes ISIS Crimes Against Yazidis as Genocide

The Swiss parliament on Thursday officially recognized the atrocities committed by the Islamic State (ISIS) against the Yazidi community as genocide, Jurist News reported. The motion passed with a vote of 105 in favor and 61 against, condemning the systematic…
Sri Lanka Navy Rescues More Than 100 Rohingya Refugees Adrift in Indian Ocean

Sri Lanka Navy Rescues More Than 100 Rohingya Refugees Adrift in Indian Ocean

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…
Facebook moderators in Kenya diagnosed with PTSD from graphic content

Facebook moderators in Kenya diagnosed with PTSD from graphic content

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…
Coal Use Set to Reach New Peak Amid Gas Crisis

Coal Use Set to Reach New Peak Amid Gas Crisis

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)…
China: Yunnan Muslims Protest Imam’s Detention

China: Yunnan Muslims Protest Imam’s Detention

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…
16th Jumada al-Thani Marks Martyrdom Commemoration of Ayatollah Sayyid Hassan Shirazi

16th Jumada al-Thani Marks Martyrdom Commemoration of Ayatollah Sayyid Hassan Shirazi

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…
MWL Condemns Israeli Plan to Double Golan Heights Population

MWL Condemns Israeli Plan to Double Golan Heights Population

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…
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