Ofelia Torres, the 16-year-old Chicago student who publicly appealed for her father’s release from immigration detention while battling a rare cancer, has died, reports NBC news. Ofelia passed away on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer that affects soft tissue. She had been diagnosed in December 2024 and had spent…
Christianity declined in the West, losing followers, while sub-Saharan Africa grew rapidly, becoming the region with the largest Christian population/ saintandrewpasadena For nearly two millennia, Christianity expanded outward from a small Jewish sect in the eastern Roman Empire to become the world’s largest religion. Imperial endorsement in the 4th century, medieval missionary networks across Europe…
MacKenzie Scott donated $26 billion over the past seven years, including a record $7.2 billion in 2025, a pace of giving that makes her the third-largest philanthropist of all time by total lifetime donations, according to Forbes. Scott is a novelist and the former spouse of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. She has distributed the funds…
Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi left Tehran on Sunday for Geneva to take part in the second round of indirect nuclear negotiations with the United States, Iranian state media reported, with AFP confirming the development.Araghchi “left Tehran for Geneva late Sunday heading a diplomatic and technical delegation to conduct the second round of nuclear talks…
Image posted by Department of War on X US military forces on Sunday boarded another sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean Sea as part of efforts to curb illicit oil shipments linked to Venezuela.According to the defence department, US forces conducted the operation overnight in the INDOPACOM area…
Qatar calls on public for Moon sighting on February 17/Representative Image The start of Ramadan now rests on a familiar and significant moment. Authorities in Qatar have called on the public to look to the skies on the evening of February 17 to help confirm the beginning of the holy month.The Crescent Sighting Committee at…
Mobile Signal Scam in Dubai: Three Get Jail Term, Devices Confiscated Dubai authorities recently prosecuted and sentenced three Asian men for running a sophisticated mobile signal hijacking fraud that targeted unsuspecting residents in the Dubai Marina area. Each defendant received six months in prison for using jamming equipment to trick victims into connecting to a…
Reza Pahlavi, exiled son of Iran’s last shah, on Saturday called on US President Donald Trump to help the Iranian people, saying it was “time to end the Islamic republic.”Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Pahlavi said, “It is time to end the Islamic republic.” “This is the demand echoing from the bloodshed of my…
Newly released files from the US Department of Justice show how Jeffrey Epstein used student visas, English-language schools, work permits and marriages to manage the immigration status of women in his orbit.Emails, bank records and legal correspondence reveal a pattern: enrolling women in language programs to secure student visas, sponsoring their expenses, pursuing special work…
Dhaka: Amid preparations by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to form the next govt, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Saturday called for a recount in 30 constituencies for the 13th parliamentary election, alleging irregularities in the vote-counting process. Speaking at a press conference, Jamaat leaders said a recount could significantly alter the outcomes at several of the 30…
A Sikh student was assaulted on the campus of San Jose State University after being mistaken for Hindu, prompting condemnation from Hindu advocacy groups and renewed calls for stronger campus security. The incident, which occurred on 7 February, is being investigated by campus and local authorities as a possible hate crime.According to university officials, the…
Between 2010 and 2020, the religiously unaffiliated grew by 270 million to 1.9 billion, rising to 24.2% of the global population. Nearly a quarter of the world’s population now identifies with no religion, according to the latest analysis from the Pew Research Center’s Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project. Drawing on more than 2,700 censuses and…
Julian Miramontes(right) with Rep. Jimmy Gomez Fourteen-year-old Julian Miramontes from Los Angeles has earned national recognition for creating a mobile app designed to help immigrants understand their legal rights. An eighth grader at El Sereno Middle School, Miramontes developed the Know Your Rights app after witnessing fear and uncertainty in his community linked to immigration…
In a shocking explosive rant, President Donald Trump wrote a nearly 500-word spiel about regretting hosting comedian Bill Maher at the White House. In the post made on Truth Social on Saturday, he called the host a ‘jerk’ who has ‘zero confidence’ during their time together and diagnosed him with the famous Trump Derangement Syndrome….
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been facing heavy social media flak over her recent post celebrating the voluntary deportation of immigrants in America due to long-pending cases. The 28-year-old expecting mother was labelled ‘demon’ and advised to ‘revisit the Christ’ by social media users who were enraged at her being happy over immigrants…
A Columbia University student who was suspended after declaring that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” has filed a federal lawsuit against North Carolina Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, alleging that her actions violated his First Amendment rights.Khymani James, 22, who emerged as a prominent figure during pro-Palestinian protests on the Ivy League campus in 2024, claimed in…
A Texas-based conservative activist has sparked controversy after sharing a social media post that framed a prominent Hindu temple in Frisco as evidence of what he described as a cultural “invasion” driven by the H-1B visa programme. The post, which circulated widely on X over the past few days, used inflammatory language to criticise Indian…
China’s foreign minister Wang Yi (AP image) China’s foreign minister Wang Yi on Saturday warned the United States against its attempts to interfere in Taiwan, saying that such actions could lead to a confrontation between Beijing and Washington.Speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Wang cautioned that the US in the future could adopt…
Tarique Rahman (PTI image) Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Tarique Rahman on Saturday called for national unity in his first address after the party’s sweeping victory in the parliamentary elections.He dedicated the win to people who, he said, had “sacrificed for democracy” and urged political differences to be set aside in the larger interest of…
BNP’s chairman Tarique Rahman’s adviser Humayun Kabir Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairman Tarique Rahman’s adviser Humayun Kabir on Saturday said that “Hindu extremism and far-right intolerance” are growing in India, describing radicalisation as a wider South Asian concern. He also called for balanced and cooperative ties with New Delhi as the BNP prepares to form the…
