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The daily scholarly meeting of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Sadiq al-Hosseini al-Shirazi was held on Wednesday, the seventh of Jumadi al-Awwal. In this session, like the previous meetings, the Marja answered the questions of the attendees about various jurisprudence issues. In…

A Uyghur filmmaker on trial for “separatism” and “terrorism” in Xinjiang told the court he was tortured into confessing crimes he didn’t commit, RFA reported. According to the article published yesterday, Ikram Nurmehmet, 32, and four Uyghur friends – all…

A surge in the number of migrants making the treacherous journey from West Africa to the Spanish Canary Islands is straining local authorities, with human rights groups warning that many child migrants are being wrongly classed as adults by Spanish…

Bangladesh is undergoing its worst-ever dengue outbreak in history, with hospitals packed to the brim and the death toll rising, Al Jazeera reported. Last Wednesday, the country recorded 24 deaths – the highest in a day – from the mosquito-borne…

More than 10,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion last year, the United Nations says, with about half of the deaths in the past three months taking place far behind the front lines, Al Jazeera reported. More…

The British newspaper ‘The Sun’ has published a new article about Wadi Al-Salam cemetery in Holy Najaf, Iraq. The newspaper said in its article, followed by Shia Waves Agency, that “the cemetery is visited by millions of pilgrims each year…

At least thirty-one people have died in an overnight stampede during an army recruitment drive in a stadium in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, authorities said on Tuesday. The government said the “tragedy” occurred on Monday…

The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution urging the member states of the United Nations to respect the Olympic Truce individually and collectively, starting from the seventh day before the start of the Olympic Games in Paris…

The Chinese government has expanded its campaign of closing mosques to regions other than Xinjiang, where for years it has been blamed for persecuting Muslim minorities, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday. Authorities have closed mosques in the northern…

In the United States, 13 lawyers from around the world have called on more than 100 leading law firms to investigate the spread of Islamophobia and hatred against Arabs and Muslims. The lawyers said, in a letter they signed, that…