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Nearly two hundred Rohingya, most of them women and children, arrived by boat at Indonesia’s Aceh province on Tuesday, the chief of a local fishing community said, the latest batch of people to have fled Myanmar by sea this year.…

In a bid to advance the cause of Islamic banking in Pakistan, Punjab University Professor Vice-Chancellor Dr Khalid Mahmood emphasised the need for additional measures. Addressing the audience in the opening ceremony of a prestigious international conference on commerce and…

The Dutch city of Rotterdam hosted a major international meeting to address extremism and hatred against Muslims, with the participation of Shia religious leaders. The meeting brought together policymakers, civil society actors, civil servants, diplomats, and religious leaders, including prominent…

Shia activists in France held a protest on Wednesday to draw attention to the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Pakistan and the plight of refugees in France. The protest, which was held in the French city of Canberra, was organized by…

The daily scholarly meeting of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Sadegh al-Hosseini al-Shirazi was held on Tuesday, the 29th of Rabi al-Thani. In this session, like the previous meetings, the Marja answered the questions of the attendees about various legal issues. Grand…

A boat carrying migrants capsized off the Turkish Aegean coastal province of Izmir on Monday, killing at least five people, the Turkish coast guard said. A further six migrants were rescued. The coast guard said a search and rescue mission…

More children in South Asia are struggling due to severe water scarcity made worse by the effects of climate change than anywhere else worldwide, the United Nations says. “A staggering 347 million children under 18 are exposed to high or…

Roughly 100 civilians were reportedly killed during a massacre on a village in the West African country of Burkina Faso, the European Union’s diplomatic service said Monday. Unidentified assailants recently attacked the village of Zaongo in Burkina Faso’s northern Centre-North…

The biggest mosque in Cyprus, designed to hold up to 10,000 people, will open in the north next year, on the Near East University campus, CyprusMail reported yesterday. A number of presidents from Muslim countries have been invited for the…

The government is to decide whether or not children between 12-18 months will get vaccinated against chicken pox as advised.Till date, majority of parents go private and pay up to £200 to protect their children against this virus, which causes…