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A Muslim mob on Wednesday stormed a Christian locality in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, burning one church, damaging two others and demolishing the house of a man after accusing him of desecrating the pages of Islam’s holy book, police said.

The UAE has expressed its concern over the developments in Tripoli, the capital of Libya, and called on all parties to de-escalate, cease hostilities, and resolve disputes through dialogue and peaceful means.

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Layer 1 blockchain startup ZetaChain raised $27M from Blockchain.com and others and plans to launch its mainnet soon; the project has 27K+ dApps deployed  —  – Several crypto and trading heavyweights, including…

In 1983, actor Carrie Fisher married musician Paul Simon in New York. (Aug. 16)

Muslims have been banned from entering this village by Hindu nationalists in India’s Haryana state and told to stop working there.

Two all-women bands are empowering themselves across the Arab world, Naya from Jordan and The Lady’s Drum in Egypt.

Australian Erin Patterson, 48, hosted her ex-husband’s parents and auntie and uncle for a lunch party, where she served poisonous death cap mushrooms in a beef wellington.