World

An Open Mosque Day will be held at the Islamic Center of Naperville, Illinois, on Sunday. The free event, which will include food from around the world, will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 2844 W. Ogden…

Human Rights Watch has confirmed that civilians are the majority of victims of explosive weapons in populated areas around the world, including Yemen and Iraq. In a report it issued with the International Human Rights Clinic of Harvard Law School,…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres stressed the importance of global solidarity to combat the climate emergency and other current or emerging global challenges, during his visit to Vietnam to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Vietnam’s membership in the United Nations.…

Irish European Parliament member Mike Wallace described what is happening in Yemen as genocide. Mike Wallace strongly criticized what is happening in Yemen against its people as a result of years of devastating war that burned everything. Wallace described the…

More than 29,000 people have died on migration trips to Europe since 2014, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The organization said in a report issued, that “5,000 people have died during the past two years.” The organization’s…

An estimated 1 million people die from lead poisoning annually and millions more, many of them children, are exposed to low levels of lead, causing lifelong health problems, the World Health Organization said on Monday. The health effects from lead…

October 24 is World Polio Day. Polio is a serious and contagious disease of the central nervous system that primarily affects motor neurons in the spinal cord. Those most at risk are children under the age of 5. Despite the existence…

About 40 people gathered over the weekend to plant a set of Magnolia trees on a vacant 80-acre plot of land in a City of Horn Lake neighborhood. The site will eventually be transformed into a mosque and Muslim cemetery…

Over recent months, funding shortfalls have forced UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to make cuts to its lifesaving aid to refugees and other forcibly displaced people in a number of operations across the world. UNHCR is particularly concerned about the…

Community leaders say Fargo’s Islamic Cemetery is the target of a vandalism spree. The area in North Dakota, USA, is usually a quiet, peaceful area, and operating the one-acre cemetery is largely a grassroots effort for the Islamic Society of…