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Activist blogger flees Bahrain
Manama :: Bahrain | 11 days ago
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Bahraini blogger Ali Abdulemam flees to UK BBC News Ali Abdulemam, the "Bahraini Blogger" Ali Abdulemam, a prominent blogger in Bahrain, has been smuggled out of the troubled Gulf kingdom and taken refuge in the UK, the BBC has learned. Abdulemam,
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Azeri Muslims Protest Theologian's Arrest
Baku :: Azerbaijan | 1 month ago
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Authorities' attempt to portray Islamists as threat could drive them to team up with wider opposition. Apr 13 The arrest of an Muslim theologian who preached against the government in Azerbaijan has sparked a new show of opposition in which
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Convictions for Bahrain police bombing
Manama :: Bahrain | 2 months ago
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Seventeen Bahrainis have each been sentenced to 15 years in jail for the attempted murder of four police officers. The men were found guilty of planting an incendiary device at a roadblock last year. The officers were injured when the device exploded
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The decade-old Iraq war - what has it really achieved?
The war in Iraq is one decade old and the US has already spent more than $72-billion of the taxpayers money on it but a very pertinent question has arisen - what has it yielded? From all appearances, Iraq still continues to remain
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ISI claims wave of Baghdad bombings: SITE
Baghdad :: Iraq | 3 months ago
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Feb 17, 2013 (AFP) -Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq has claimed a wave of bombings targeting Shiite areas of Baghdad that killed at least 21 people Sunday, in the latest violence to hit Iraq as it struggles with protests and a political crisis...Three
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HRW voices concern on attacks on religious minorities, ‘judicial overreach'
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 4 months ago
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Pakistan 's government has failed to act against abuses by the security and intelligence agencies, which continued to allow extremist groups to attack religious minorities, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2013. The authorities did
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Snubbing the stooges
Quetta :: Pakistan | 4 months ago
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AFP Photo If you are on Twitter or Facebook, you are bound to come across episodes of (albeit unintentional) comic relief amidst tragedy. Take the recent and unprecedented response of the Hazara Shia' and the Shia in general against the unrelenting
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Shiites throng Iraq shrine city for Arbaeen
Baghdad :: Iraq | 5 months ago
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Shiite pilgrims from Iraq and around the world are to throng Iraq's shrine city of Karbala on Thursday for the climax of Arbaeen mourning rituals amid tight security for fear of militant attacks. Over the past 10 days, the annual commemoration
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How Christians and Muslims can marry – the official guide
Leicester :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
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Christian pastors and Muslim imams have come together to draw up guidelines detailing advice on how to deal with inter-faith marriages. Although marrying between faiths is entirely legal in Britain, couples often face resistance and hostility, both
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Bahrain policeman dies from protest injuries
Manama :: Bahrain | 7 months ago
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31 Heavy police presence and tear gas often prevent marches from getting started in the Gulf island kingdom [AP] A Bahraini policeman has died from burns sustained in an April incident authorities described as a "terrorist act", the state news agency
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