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Wallonia’s largest mosque opens after 10 years of construction

A hugely successful grassroots funding effort funded the landmark building, which is designed to have universal appeal. ADVERTISEMENT The largest mosque in Belgium’s Wallonia region has just opened its doors after more than a decade of construction.  The Kanuni Sultan Süleyman mosque is situated in Liège, and was funded entirely by its worshippers, received no

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Giant plague grave discovered in Nuremberg could be the largest mass burial site EVER seen in Europe – with as many as 1,500 people buried there

Scientists may have uncovered what is the largest mass burial site in Europe. The site in Nuremberg, Germany, contains the bodies of at least 1,000 people who died of the bubonic plague, which killed up to 60 per cent of Europe’s population.  Described as a ‘nationally significant’ discovery, experts think the bodies were buried at the

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WFO: Sudan’s war risks creating ‘world’s largest hunger crisis’

Fighting between the country’s military and paramilitary groups has the potential to trigger a devastating famine. ADVERTISEMENT A ruinous conflict raging for about a year between rival generals in Sudan risks creating the world’s largest hunger crisis, the top UN food official warned on Wednesday. While global attention has been focused on the Israel-Hamas war in

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Ursula von der Leyen endorsed by EU’s largest party in bid for second term

Ursula von der Leyen, the current head of the European Commission, received an endorsement from the European People’s Party for a second term. The endorsement took place during a meeting in Bucharest ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections. Von der Leyen’s reappointment still requires approval from EU member states’ leaders. The European Union’s largest

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Inmates Escape After an Attack on Haiti’s Largest Prison

Gangs attacked Haiti’s biggest prison and allowed prisoners to escape on Saturday night, according to local police unions and a lawyer for some of the incarcerated, the latest instance of escalating violence and disorder in the country’s capital, which has been ravaged by gang violence for more than two years. While details of the attack

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