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More than 171 trillion pieces of plastic are now estimated to be floating in the world’s oceans, according to scientists, the BBC reported. Plastic kills fish and sea animals and takes hundreds of years to break down into less harmful…

The Irish Muslim Council has said it is “not appropriate” to teach children about gender identity issues in primary schools. In a letter posted on their Twitter account, the council said it supported the position of the Catholic Primary Schools…

The World Meteorological Organization announced in its latest report that an El Niño warming event may occur in the coming months. According to forecasts, the probability of El Niño phenomenon, the opposite of the colder La Niña that affects the…

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has condemned rich countries and energy giants for throttling poor nations with “predatory” interest rates and crippling fuel prices. In his speech on the opening day of the UN’s Least Developed Countries (LDC) summit in…

A resolution seeking to support Senator Robinhood Padilla’s Senate Bill No. 1272 and its counterpart House Bill No. 5693 in the House of Representatives, which declares Feb. 1 of every year as National Hijab Day, was approved by Philippines’s Bangsamoro…

Malaysia has allocated RM10 million from Budget 2023 to print and distribute two million translated copies of the Quran. This initiative by the Yayasan Restu non-profit organization has been met with what was described as Islamophobic criticism by those who…

The Cross Dependency Initiative (XDI) has released on Monday a first-pass analysis of “Gross Domestic Climate Risk,” calculating the physical climate risk to the built environment in over 2,600 territories around the world. The findings underscore the importance of pricing…

Canada’s House of Commons voted overwhelmingly to rescind Quebec’s provisional notice, which gave Quebec an opportunity to enforce Law 21 to ban headscarves in public. “Law 21” was opposed by 174 members, headed by the ruling liberal party, while 142…

At least 10 people were killed and several others were injured when al-Shabaab terrorists stormed a residential building in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, sprayed indiscriminate bullets with automatic weapons on civilians, and one of them blew himself up. The…

At least eight Nigerian police officers have been killed in separate attacks by suspected rebels in the country’s southeast just days ahead of presidential elections. Four officers were killed in an attack on a police station in Anambra state on…