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Indian police have detained more than 150 Rohingya refugees found living illegally in the northern region of Jammu and Kashmir and a process has begun to deport them back to Myanmar, two officials said on Sunday.Dozens of Rohingya are in…

Switzerland votes Sunday on whether to ban full facial coverings in public places, despite women in Islamic full-face veils being an exceptionally rare sight in Swiss streets.Polls indicate a slim majority support the move, in a vote that comes after…

At least 20 people were killed and 30 wounded by a suicide car bomb just outside a restaurant near the port in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu late on Friday, an emergency services official said.The blast sent plumes of smoke into the…

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has requested Delta Airlines and the US Department of Transportation to investigate an incident related to the religious profiling of a Muslim passenger, due to his middle name Muhammad.CAIR said that the harassment that…

A two-day scientific symposium was held under the title “How do we understand the Holy Quran?” to introduce Quranic concepts at Aligarh Islamic University in India.The former president of the College of Islamic Studies at Aligarh Islamic University, Zafar Islam…

Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released, the state’s governor said Tuesday.Zamfara state governor Bello Matawalle announced that 279 girls have been freed. The government last week said…

Syed Abbas championed a range of measures aimed at improving the quality of life in the local community during his nearly two years in Madison, Wisconsin.As vice chair of the District Joint Council, Abbas, a Pakistani Muslim immigrant, proposed support…

A number of Shia youths in Belgium distributed food baskets to the needy in the capital, Brussels.This initiative comes to support the needy and the poor, especially in light of the Coronavirus pandemic.The organizers of the initiative said in an…

Health officials in Seminole County, Florida, USA, are launching a mobile center for general vaccination against Corona at the city’s mosque.The health officials announced that eligible citizens may receive the first vaccinations at al-Hay Mosque.The officials also announced that the…

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, called on the United States to impose sanctions on the Saudi crown prince targeting his personal assets as well as his international participation.The UN investigator considered that…