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Thick smoke has enveloped extensive areas of the Brazilian Amazon on Thursday as the region grapples with a surge in wildfires and a historic drought. In Manaus, a city of 2 million, air quality ranked among the worst globally, leading…

World Mental Health Day is an international day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma. It was first celebrated in 1992 at the initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health in order to bring more…

A team of scientists at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), led by Dr. Chan-hoon Park, have designed and developed a special powered wheelchair that addresses the major problems regular products cause for people with walking disability. The…

Amazon launched its first two prototype satellites into space on Friday in a challenge to Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service. The e-commerce and web services giant’s Project Kuiper aims to provide fast and affordable broadband internet around the world by…

Muslim leaders have called on European governments to take measures against Islamophobia in Europe at security and human rights conference in Poland Report: Muslim civil society groups from Europe warned of the growing level of Islamophobia spreading across the continent…

Hundreds of Kenyan Muslims marched on the country’s Supreme Court Friday in protest against a recent decision upholding the right of LGBTQ groups to associate and form non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Deutsche Welle reported on Saturday, October 7. Angered Muslims carrying…

At least 43 million child displacements were linked to extreme weather events over the past six years, the equivalent of 20,000 children being forced to abandon their homes and school every single day, new research has found. Floods and storms…

The Shia devotees of AhlulBayt, peace be upon them, in Germany have celebrated the blessed birth anniversary of the Honorable Prophet and his grandson Imam Jafar Al-Sadiq, peace be upon them. The husseiniyya of Ahlulbayt, peace be upon them, in…

On June 15, 2007, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously declared October 2 — the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of India’s independence movement — as the International Day of Non-Violence. The UN resolution is intended to promote the culture…

A suicide bomber blew himself up on Friday at a tea shop in Somalia’s capital, killing at least seven people, Al Jazeera reported. The Sunni-extremist al-Shabab terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on its Arabic media…