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About 100,000 Rohyngyas refugees to move to flood-prone island in Bangladesh
Jan 17, 2020 12:32Bangladesh has controversial plans to forcefully accommodate 100,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees on a flood-prone island, while more than 750,000 people are currently living in irregular, unsanitary, and crowded camps.
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Indian state challenges citizenship law in Supreme Court
Jan 14, 2020 16:36India’s southern Kerala State has become the first to legally challenge a new controversial citizenship law in the country that is widely considered anti-Muslim and has triggered nationwide demonstrations.
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Indian police battle anti-Modi protesters over disputed law
Jan 12, 2020 16:31Indian police baton-charged protesters Sunday to stop them reaching Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cavalcade as nationwide protests against a bitterly disputed citizenship law entered a second month.
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Iran, Turkey sign religious cooperation agreement
Dec 27, 2019 07:39Iran and Turkey have inked a cooperation agreement focusing on further expansion of religious relations.
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Nigerian Muslim leader languishing in jail despite court's ruling
Dec 03, 2019 13:09In a statement issued to the press, the Islamic movement in Nigeria described the continuous detention of Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife Zeenat as one of the worst violations of the rule of law.
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Pakistani man aims to bring shade to Arba'een pilgrims in Iraq
Nov 30, 2019 09:16A retired Pakistani industrialist sent thousands of saplings to Iraq on Friday (November 29) to bring shade to pilgrims, an idea formed when his relatives returned from a holy site with sunburn.
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Iran summons Norwegian charges d'affaires over Quran desecration
Nov 26, 2019 20:16Iran’s Foreign Ministry says it has summoned Norway’s charge d’affaires to Tehran to strongly protest the recent burning of the Holy Quran by head of an extremist Norwegian group, a move that sparked an outcry in the global Muslim community.
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Hamas calls for defending Islamic sites in West Bank against Israeli violations
Nov 24, 2019 17:00The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has lambasted the regular desecration of the Ibrahimi Mosque and the al-Aqsa Mosque by the illegal Zionist settlers as “a practice targeting the Palestinian presence.”
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Tehran holds Halal foods exhibition
Nov 20, 2019 06:57Iran’s third edition of Halal food exhibition is underway in Tehran. More than 150 Halal food producers have put on display their products at the exhibition for a period of one week. The public have welcomed the exhibition and tens of thousands of people have visited it so far.
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Leader's meeting with ambassadors of Muslim countries, participants of Islamic Unity Conference
Nov 15, 2019 12:47The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei's meeting with the guests of the Islamic Unity Conference as well as a number of the ambassadors of Muslim countries was held on the auspicious occasion of the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his great grandson Imam Sadiq (AS), Muslims' sixth Imam.