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Twenty-one migrants drowned and another 23 are missing after a boat carrying 77 people capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the second such incident in two weeks, Reuters reported Tuesday citing the United Nations migration agency. The accident occurred on…

More than 50,000 people have been displaced by clashes in a disputed area in northern Ethiopia, with the UN expressing concern about the violence involving fighters from rival regions. According to a UN statement on Monday, the humanitarian situation in…

Deadly floods are causing chaos in East Africa due to heavy rainfall, with Burundi seeking international assistance to handle the aftermath, VOA reported yesterday. The article noted that Lake Tanganyika’s rising waters have flooded the port of Bujumbura, disrupting businesses…

A new report has warned that more than 70 percent of workers around the world, over 2.4 billion workers out of a global workforce of 3.4 billion, are exposed to excessive heat and other climate-change-related health hazards. The report, released…

Over 80 earthquakes, the strongest of 6.3 magnitude, rattled Taiwan’s east coast starting Monday night and into the early hours of Tuesday and some caused shaking of buildings in the capital Taipei, Reuters reported citing the island’s weather administration. The…

Europe faced a record number of extreme heat stress days in 2023, according to the European Union’s Copernicus climate monitoring service and the World Meteorological Organization. The continent experienced a July heatwave that affected 41 percent of southern Europe, along…

Southern China was hit by heavy rains on the weekend, causing flooding in homes, streets, and farmland, CNN reported today. Tens of millions of people are at risk as rescuers work to evacuate those trapped by rising waters after at…

The upcoming heavier normal Gu rains and floods in 22 districts of Somalia are expected to affect some 770,000 people, Xinhua reported on Sunday citing the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The Gu (April to June)…

The UK-based Tell MAMA organization reported a 335% increase in Islamophobic incidents in the United Kingdom, causing great concern in the country. The American newspaper NPR has published a report on this alarming increase in attacks and threats directed against…

The Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, called on intellectuals, writers, and researchers across the world to re-examine the true Islam represented by the Messenger of Allah, and his successor, Imam Ali, peace be upon them. In…