The 85th anniversary of Michigan’s oldest mosque is being commemorated. One of the country’s oldest mosques, the American Moslem Society Mosque in Dearborn offers both religious and recreational activities to the younger generation.
As Thailand gears up for elections, a former titan of the sex industry who flirted with politics and transformed himself into a gadfly going after the rich and powerful is back as a crusader against corruption.
A Ghanaian activist is swimming the nearly 500-kilometer-long Volta River, which includes Lake Volta, to raise awareness of the problem of growing water pollution. In order to check for contamination, Yvette Tetteh is also taking water samples along the way.
The number of people killed in an air strike seen as one of the worst attacks on civilians by Myanmar’s junta since a military coup two years ago has risen to 165, the country’s shadow government said Thursday.
A View of two young participants at the Geneva commemoration of the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda
Millions of survivors are still living in tents more than two months after the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, which claimed more than 50,000 lives. There is little hope that they will be able to return home any time soon.
Efforts by workers to rescue the injured and collect the remains of mangled bodies at the scene of a junta air strike that killed at least 80 civilians in Myanmar’s northern Sagaing region have been hampered by troops in the area, sources said Wednesday.
It can be difficult in some American classrooms to receive a well-rounded education while upholding one’s religious identity. But there are 140 recognized Islamic-based schools in the United States that work towards achieving that goal.
With food costs in Turkey skyrocketing, the Islamic holy month of Ramadan provides some relief by providing free meals to break the day of fasting. The biggest danger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s reelection campaign, according to analysts, is inflation.
A Chinese official who approved the destruction of a huge Buddha statue in a Tibetan-majority area has been assigned to another position in the same prefecture, Tibetans inside and outside the region said.