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Silvia Orriols, a far-right separatist leader of the Catalan town of Ripoll, has launched a campaign this week to remove halal menus from public schools. Her latest controversial statement came on Monday, when she announced that she had filed a…

The European Mediterranean Seismological Center announced this morning, Tuesday, that an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale shook the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in northwestern China. It should be noted that most of the Uyghur Muslims live in this province.…

Zimbabwe on Monday launched the oral cholera vaccination (OCV) campaign targeting 2.3 million citizens in high-risk areas, Anadolu Agency reported. The campaign aims to battle a deadly cholera outbreak that has affected 21,000 people countrywide and claimed more than 400…

Scientists at the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group found in a new study, published on Wednesday, that climate change caused by humanity’s planet-heating carbon pollution was the main driver of the extreme Amazon drought. They said in ther study that it had…

Gunmen attacked villagers in the oil-rich region of Abyei claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, leaving at least 52 people dead, including a U.N. peacekeeper, and 64 wounded, a regional official said Sunday. The motive for the attack Saturday…

Northwest China’s Xinjiang region is the first area to implement a government policy promoting integration among ethnic groups to achieve President Xi Jinping’s goal of establishing a unified national identity, Chinese media reported. The regulation calls for the creation of…

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has warned of the risks of higher inflation, uncertainty of food security and increased greenhouse gas emissions due to the drop in freight going through the Suez Canal. According to UNCTAD,…

At least 30 people have been killed in renewed violence in Nigeria’s central Plateau State, where clashes between Muslim herders and Christian farming communities have erupted for years, Al-Jazeera reported on Thursday. According to community leaders, despite a 24-hour curfew…

Human Rights Watch said Thursday that Burkina Faso’s security forces last year killed at least 60 civilians in three different drone strikes, which the group says may have constituted war crimes. The West African nation’s government claimed the strikes targeted…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday emphasized the urgent need to combat the rising tide of terrorism in Africa, describing the situation as a “clear and present danger” not only to the continent but to the world. “Now this building,…