US: ‘Historic’ Ramadan call to prayer echoes in Minnesota city | USA News | Al Jazeera

From loudspeakers on the roof of a Minnesota mosque, the Islamic call to prayer echoed for the first time ever throughout a Minneapolis neighbourhood late on Thursday as the Muslim community there prepared to begin the holy month of Ramadan. It echoed again on Friday morning and will continue five>>>

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Coronavirus: Canada faith groups find ways to safely serve | Canada News | Al Jazeera

Toronto, Canada – When Canada’s most extensive Sikh gurdwara stopped its langar, or even community kitchen space, final month because of the coronavirus, volunteers recognized it might certainly not be actually closed for long. “Nothing similar to this has actually occurred previously,” claimed Ranjit Singh Dulay, secretary of the Ontario>>>

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India COVID-19 lockdown means no food or work for rural poor | News | Al Jazeera

Mumbai, India –For ranch worker Manisha Uke, having the ability to endure is contingent on two elements – one, getting a daily wage of 100 Indian rupees ($1.3) a day as well as two, receiving a widow’s month-to-month pension plan of1,000 rupees ($13.1) from the government.Given that the onset of>>>

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Afghanistan’s Taliban, US sign peace offer|News|Al Jazeera

Doha, Qatar – United States officials and also Taliban agents have actually authorized a final tranquility deal after months of arrangements in Qatar’s funding to finish the USA’s lengthiest war, combated in Afghanistan considering that 2001. Saturday’s contract, authorized in Doha in the visibility of leaders from Pakistan, Qatar, Turkey>>>

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‘Breaking point’: Babies dying in freezing cold amid Idlib push | Battle for Idlib News | Al Jazeera

Out in the open and under the freezing weather condition, Mustafa Hamadi and his household settled into their makeshift camping tent in the town of Killi, in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib – their 2nd time being displaced in less than one year. The sub-zero temperatures that night on>>>

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Republican senator ‘disturbed’ by McConnell’s impeachment remarks | USA News | Al Jazeera

“I heard what leader McConnell had stated. Republicans have a 53-seat bulk in the Senate, where 51 votes are needed to pass a set of rules for the Trump trial. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not yet sent the articles of impeachment to the Senate, a bid to pressure Senate>>>

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