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The Independent
| 8 months ago
Conceding that angry protests are likely to continue for days, the US defence department has sent extra troops to protect "personnel and property" at America's diplomatic outposts across the Muslim world. The deployment was revealed as the Obama...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Canada closed its embassies in Cairo, Tripoli and Khartoum for the day Sunday as a safety precaution for staff and the buildings, in the wake of attacks on several diplomatic premises. "We take the safety of our personnel and our missions overseas...
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The Economic Times
| 8 months ago
Strongly condemning all acts that disparage religious beliefs and sentiments, India today said it was in touch with US authorities on the issue of an anti-Islam film that has triggered violence in many countries and led to the killing of an American...
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Daily Nation
| 8 months ago
Rating In Summary Two protesters were killed in Sudan on Friday as around 5,000 furious demonstrators attacked the embassies of Britain, the United States and Germany State Department urged US citizens to avoid all public demonstrations and political...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Under intense pressure from Washington, Egyptian security forces arrested hundreds of protesters around the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Saturday, as political leaders struggled to deal with the fallout caused by the week of unrest. Across the region,...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Dozens of protesters were arrested in Egypt while police in Lebanon were protecting U.S.-based chain restaurants Saturday amid protests of an anti-Islam film. Traffic was beginning to return to normal in Cairo, where vehicles zigzagged through...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Saudi Arabia's mufti or spiritual leader Sheikh Abdelaziz al-Sheikh on Saturday condemned as un-Islamic violent protests against an anti-Muslim Internet film made in the United States. The mufti also denounced the film's dissemination, which he...
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News 24
| 8 months ago
The deadly attack on the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi was planned and "meticulously executed", the country's assembly chief said on Saturday. "I don't want to talk about what happened in other countries but as for Libya, the operation...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Al-Qaida 's branch in Yemen has praised the killing of the U.S. ambassador in Libya and called for more attacks to expel American embassies from Muslim nations. The statement, posted Saturday on Islamic militant websites, suggested al-Qaida was...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Egypt needs to ensure the security of foreign diplomats or risk losing the $1.3 billion in aid it receives each year from the U.S., Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Friday...Embassy in Cairo this week, Romney told a fundraising...
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Open Democracy
| 8 months ago
People took to the streets of Tripoli and Benghazi on Wednesday night holding banners with messages such as Chris Stevens was a friend to all Libyans' and Sorry people of America. This is not the behaviour of Islam or our prophet'. On Tuesday,...
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Rediff
| 8 months ago
The events in the coming days and weeks may take a course similar to what happened in the Islamic world after the publication of caricatures in a Danish newspaper in September 2005, notes B Raman. S ince September 11, the 11th anniversary of the 9/11...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed Tuesday amid violent protests at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. The others, all State Department employees, were Sean Smith, an information management officer, and security personnel Glen...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso condemned Friday the attacks on the British and German embassies in Khartoum as unacceptable and against "the rules of the civilized world." "Nothing justifies these kinds of attacks," Barroso said,...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
Thousands of protesters stormed the embassies of Germany and Britain here in the Sudanese capital Friday in protest against an anti-Islam film, Xinhua reported. Parts of the German embassy complex were torched and badly damaged.
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
US Ambassador Lebanon Maura Connelly meets on Friday with Prime Minister Najib Miqati. (Dalati & Nohra) Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Friday condemned the attack on the US Consulate in Libya's Benghazi that led to the death of US Ambassador...
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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
Germany's Foreign Minister says the country's embassy in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum has been stormed by protesters and set partially on fire. Guido Westerwelle told reporters in Berlin on Friday that the Embassy building was "partially in...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
U.S. embassies across the Islamic world are bracing for more violent anti-American protests on Friday, the Muslim day of prayers, as popular anger continues over a film that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad. ET: In Khartoum, Sudan, demonstrators...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Sudanese demonstrators broke into the German embassy in Khartoum on Friday, raising an Islamic flag and setting the building on fire in a protest against a film that demeaned the Prophet Mohammad, witnesses said. Police had earlier fired tear gas to...
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The Local
| 8 months ago
Thousands of protesters in the Sudanese capital Khartoum stormed the German embassy, tearing down the flag and setting at least part of the building on fire after surrounding it and the British embassy on Friday afternoon. Around 5,000 people...
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The Independent
| 8 months ago
Demonstrators, furious at a film they say insults the Prophet Mohamad, clashed with police near the US embassy in Cairo today before a nationwide protest called by the Muslim Brotherhood which propelled Egypt's Islamist president to power. Protesters...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi on Friday condemned a film which has sparked protests across the Muslim world as an "aggression" on Islam that distracts from the real problems of the Middle East. "We cannot accept this type of aggression and...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
The assassination of the US ambassador to Libya and attacks on US embassies in Egypt and Yemen have stunned Washington, forcing it to urgently confront the tumultuous aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings it supported.
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CNN Blog
| 8 months ago
Several protests stemming at least in part from an anti-Islam film produced in the United States are unfolding outside U.S. embassies around the world. Friday's protests follow ones in Cairo and Benghazi and an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt condemned on Friday the release of an amateur anti-Islam film that insulted Prophet Mohammed and sparked angry protests in a number of Arab countries. Jumblatt said in a statement that the film's...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
An angry mob forced its way into the American embassy in Yemen on Thursday as violence linked a film denigrating the Prophet Mohammed spread turmoil across the Muslim world. Still reeling from the killing of Chris Stevens, its ambassador to Libya,...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
Calling for calm and restraint at the time of rising tensions, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has condemned as "hateful" the anti-Islam that triggered anti-American protest in the Middle East and North Africa. "The secretary-general is deeply...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
US Ambassador to Lebanon Maura Connelly on Thursday expressed her sadness at the death of the US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, along with three of his colleagues, in an attack against the US consulate in Benghazi. It is with great sadness that I...
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Rediff
| 8 months ago
United States President Barack Obama ordered tighter security at American diplomatic posts around the world following the attacks on the consulate in Libya that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Chris Stevens and the the embassy in Cairo.
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Libyan authorities have made several arrests in connection with the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in which the ambassador was killed. New Libyan Prime Minister Mustafa Abu Shaqur told the BBC the investigation was making progress. The attack...
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Canadian Free Press
| 8 months ago
As early as September 4, and again a few days later, the warnings were received, but largely ignored. The embassies were not put on high alert, which is standard procedure in the face of such threats. So they were not prepared for the attacks that...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ensured the U.S. government that its personnel working in the country were safe, the White House said. More than 200 people were reported injured Thursday in clashes between demonstrators and security forces near the...
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War In Context
| 8 months ago
Was it really religious outrage that made a few young men lose their heads and commit murder? Have any of the men who attacked the consulate actually seen the film? I do not know one Libyan who has, despite being in close contact with friends and...
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
Yemeni protesters break windows of the U.S. embassy Enemy: A Yemeni protester, center, destroys an American flag pulled down as other hold a banner in Arabic that reads, 'any one but you God's prophet at the U.S. Embassy Down with this: With the U.S.
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The Daily Telegraph
| 8 months ago
Islam film as security measures beefed up around US diplomatic missions, following attacks on American consulates and embassies in Libya, Egypt and Yemen. The Afghan government earlier ordered an indefinite ban on the entire YouTube video sharing...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
Clinton called the video "disgusting and reprehensible," and on no way reflects the views of the United States. "We have the greatest respect for people of faith,' Clinton said. "This video is disgusting and reprehensible. It appears to have a deeply...
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News 24
| 8 months ago
Libya said Thursday it has made arrests and opened a probe into an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi that killed the American ambassador, amid speculation that al-Qaeda rather than a frenzied mob was to blame. "The interior and justice...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest sites, on Thursday condemned the release of an amateur movie mocking Islam and the deadly attacks against US missions over the film. The kingdom "condemned the violent reactions in several countries against US...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
The Iranian government expressed frustration that Washington hadn't come out with a public criticism of a film seen as insulting to Islam. Anti-American sentiment turned deadly this week in Libya after the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi was attacked,...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
The Canadian government ordered its embassy in Cairo closed and secured Thursday until at least Sunday as Islamist violence targeted other embassies. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird told the Toronto Star in an email the decision was made because...
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Delhi News-Record
| 8 months ago
Anger over an anti-Islam film sparked a third day of violent protests and riots near the U.S...American diplomatic missions in the Middle East are on heightened alert after an attack on the embassy in Benghazi, Libya, on Tuesday left four dead,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Thousands of supporters of powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr protested in several cities in Iraq on Thursday against an anti-Islam film that has sparked anti-US violence in north Africa. Thousands of people, including some MPs from Sadr's...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
The four-hour assault on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi may have been orchestrated by groups tied to al-Qaeda, politicians said as officials began to investigate the attack that killed the ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others. The...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 8 months ago
The United States does not consider Egypt's Islamist-led government an ally or an enemy, President Barack Obama said in a television interview. "I don't think that we would consider them an ally, but we don't consider them an enemy," Obama told...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
The violence in Yemen again raised questions about whether vulnerable Middle East governments are willing or even able to protect American targets in their countries. It was was a further measure of the depth of anger about the film insulting the...
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Arab News
| 8 months ago
Egypt, Algeria and Morocco on Thursday slammed an anti-Islam film that has sparked protests worldwide, but also denounced attacks on US missions by angry protesters. Egypt's Islamist President Muhammad Mursi vowed Thursday not to allow attacks on...
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AKI
| 8 months ago
The Vatican on Thursday deplored the attack on the United States consulate in Libya which killed the US ambassador Christopher Stevens and three officials. "The very serious attack organised against the United States diplomatic mission in Libya,...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
Violence sparked by an anti-Islam film and video clip has spread from Libya and Egypt to Yemen today, with protesters in the capital Sana'a storming the U.S...Chanting "death to America," the Yemeni protesters broke through a security forces cordon...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Higher Islamic Shia Council Deputy head Sheikh Abdel Amir Qabalan on Wednesday condemned the film which mocked Islam and was produced in the United States. This cowardly act is an episode in a series [of campaigns] funded by the Zionist movement in...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Chanting "death to America," hundreds of protesters angered by an anti-Islam film stormed the US Embassy compound in Yemen's capital and burned the American flag on Thursday, the latest in a series of attacks on American diplomatic missions in West...
