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The Media Support for Afghanistan’s Free Media (NAI) organization announced on World Television Day that over the past two years after the Taliban regained power, 52% of visual media outlets in Afghanistan have ceased their operations. The organization announced on…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for “record action” from world leaders to tackle climate change. Present climate trends are racing planet Earth down a dead-end three-degree temperature rise, he said at the launch of the Emissions Gap Report…

Severe storms and flooding have left nine people dead across Turkey, officials said Monday, including one seaman who died when a cargo ship sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast. Eleven other crew were reported missing, the Associate Press reported. At…

The Secretariat-General of the Shia Holy Shrines in Iraq announced on Tuesday the beginning of the construction work on the expansion project of the shrine of Al-Qasim bin Imam al-Kazim, peace be upon him. The Secretariat said in a statement…

The World Health Organization (WHO) chief on Monday warned that an estimated one million children a year die worldwide because of wasting. During his address at the UK Global Food Security Summit in London, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed that the…

Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Bashir al-Najafi reaffirmed the importance of granting the freedom of worship to the followers of all religions, emphasizing the need of religious tolerance and greater cooperation between Islamic countries. Grand Ayatollah al-Najafi’s statement came during meeting a…

Fierce fighting between Myanmar’s military and ethnic armies in northern Shan state in recent weeks has expanded to include parts of the northwest, southeast and Rakhine state, displacing more than 200,000 people, according to the United Nations. “As of 14…

The UK Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a controversial British government plan to send asylum-seekers who arrive in the country as stowaways or in boats to Rwanda is unlawful. Five justices unanimously found that Rwanda is not a safe…

The abundance of climate-heating gases in the atmosphere reached record highs in 2022, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has reported. The concentration of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, is now 50% higher than before the start of the…

A quarter of Somalia’s population, or 4.3 million people, is at risk of going hungry by the end of the year, the UN has warned, as the impoverished country in the Horn of Africa faces deadly floods. According to the…