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The Earth’s ozone layer is on its way to recovering, thanks to decades of work to get rid of ozone-damaging chemicals, a panel of international experts backed by the United Nations has found. In 1987, international bodies adopted a global…

The World Health Organization (WHO) committee will meet on 27 January to decide whether the coronavirus pandemic still represents an emergency on a global level or not, three years after it was declared a public health emergency. According to the…

The Hamtramck City Council on Tuesday approved amending an ordinance to allow residents to perform animal sacrifices as part of their religious ceremonies. The city council had debated the matter for months, even proposing restrictions that were ultimately shut down.…

The international magazine (Tahleelat Al-Asr) said that the Swiss National Library includes a prominent book on Shias in its Islamic archive. The book is titled (The Legends of the Supreme Religious Authority in Najaf) written by one of the prominent…

Myanmar authorities have sentenced 112 Rohingya, including a dozen children, to between two and five years in prison for attempting to travel to Malaysia “without legal documents”, state media reported Tuesday. The group were arrested last month in the southern…

A high-level council to govern global health emergencies, made up of heads of state and other international leaders, is one of the proposals to be discussed by the World Health Organization (WHO) this year. It is the first of 10…

The International Nonviolence Organization (Free Muslim) urged the government of the United Arab Emirates to include in its school curricula the biography of the Ahlulbayt (peace be upon them) in order to acquaint the younger generations with the greatness of…

The international research institution “Academia” has published, on its official website, a scientific research on the annual million Arba’een Pilgrimage in the holy city of Karbala. The institution said in a report that the research by the Pakistani researcher Shahzad…

Through protection from Imam al-Mahdi, may Allah hasten his honorable reappearance, the Office of the Religious Authority, His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, helped establishing one hundred and forty Fatimid mourning ceremonies through…

On the Educational level, last week, the ban on girls’ higher education and women employees of NGOs triggered widespread reactions, with the acting minister of interior saying work is underway on a reasonable and permanent solution. “Banning Afghan women working…