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According to a new United Nations report released today, Myanmar has become the world’s top producer of opium, overtaking Afghanistan in 2023. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said on Tuesday that the 95 percent decline in opium…

More than 180 high-level officials and experts have nominated the 53-year-old jailed Uyghur academic and blogger Ilham Tohti to receive the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, citing his role as “the true symbol of the Uyghur people’s fight for freedom” under…

Thousands of species of freshwater fish are at risk of extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature said in a Monday report released at the United Nations climate conference in Dubai. The organization assessed just under 15,000 species and…

Militants rammed an explosive-laden truck into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people, two security officials said, the latest devastating attack in recent months claimed by a Pakistani Taliban group. The bomb and gun…

A book entitled “The Divine Saviour” was published by Jamkaran for Publication and English Translation, as a brief biography of Imam Mahdi, may Allah Almighty hasten his honorable reappearance, which is intended to be distributed in Western countries. The publishing…

The World Health Organization recently released a concerning report about the state of respiratory health in Afghanistan, confirming the country has witnessed a staggering number of deaths linked to acute respiratory diseases this year. According to WHO, the total count…

France is to end funding for its biggest Muslim high school on the grounds of administrative failures and questionable teaching practices, a local official said on Monday, the latest in what some rights groups say is a wider crackdown on…

On the 31st anniversary of the historic Babri Mosque’s demolition, Indian Muslims have called it a “Black Day,” with some vowing to continue their fight for legal rights in the country. The 16th-century Babri Mosque in Ayodhya in the northern…

The European Commission has promised a €30m (£26m) fund to increase security at mosques and places of worship across the continent as it condemned a recent rise in levels of antisemitism and Islamophobia as “un-European”. Saying that tensions surrounding the…

The Turkish local newspaper “Flaş Gazetesi” reported that the mayor of Keçiören, Ankara, Turgut Altınok, confirmed that Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, is the king of all religions, sects and nationalities. The newspaper quoted Altınok as saying in a…