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  • France to vote on face-veil ban

    The French senate is to vote on a bill that would ban niqab or face-covering veils in public, a proposal that has sparked fierce debate in a country that is home to one of Europe's largest Muslim populations. Senators are expected to comfortably approve the bill, after it was passed in the lower house by 335 votes to one in July. Critics of the proposed.. More

  • Kosovo town hit by violent riots

    Ethnic Serbs and Albanians have clashed in Kosovo's divided town of Mitrovica, wounding three international peacekeepers and six locals, officials have said. The clashes began on Sunday after Turkey beat Serbia 83-82 in a World Basketball Championship match on the previous night in the Turkish city of Istanbul, keeping them from reaching Sunday's final. &qu.. More

  • Afghan protesters dead as Noble Quran abused in US

    Afghans protested strongly for the third straight day on Sunday over a U.S. pastor's abandoned plans to burn the Noble Quran while there were three other cases of desecration of the Muslim holy book. Two protesters were shot and killed in eastern Logar province, a district official said, taking to three the death toll in protests staged since Friday. The.. More

  • Turks vote on constitutional reform

    Turks are voting on constitutional amendments proposed by the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister. Expected to be a tight contest, the referendum is seen as a crucial test for the governing party. Voting started at 04:00 GMT on Sunday in the eastern provinces, and an hour later in the west. Opinion polls show that a small.. More

  • Afghan protesters dead as Noble Quran abused in US

    Afghans protested strongly for the third straight day on Sunday over a U.S. pastor's abandoned plans to burn the Noble Quran while there were three other cases of desecration of the Muslim holy book. Two protesters were shot and killed in eastern Logar province, a district official said, taking to three the death toll in protests staged since Friday. The.. More

  • Thousands march in Kashmir for freedom during Eid Al Fitr

    Tens of thousands of Muslims marched through Indian occupied Kashmir's main city on Saturday, demanding freedom and independence. Police fired tear gas and live ammunition into the air to disperse crowds in Srinagar, the heart of a 20-year struggle against New Delhi's occupation of the region. Three-month-long protests have killed 70 people so far,.. More

  • Nine indicted over Kosovo war massacres

    Serbian prosecutors have indicted nine former Serb paramilitaries over the killing of at least 43 ethnic-Albanian civilians during the 1998 to 1999 conflict in Kosovo. A statement from the office of the Serbian war crimes prosecutor said on Saturday that the nine men, who were arrested earlier this year, had been charged with killing the civilians.. More

  • US pastor 'suspends' Quran burning

    A Christian pastor in the US state of Florida has called off - and then threatened to reconsider - plans to burn copies of the Quran, in the face of condemnation by the US government and international outrage. Although Terry Jones had initially announced that the bookburning was cancelled, he later said the plan was only suspended because he was "lied.. More

  • Many dead in North Ossetia blast

    At least 12 people have been killed and 80 others wounded after a car exploded in a market in Vladikavkaz, a major city in Russia's North Caucasus region. A regional official said it appeared the blast was carried out by a bomber and Russia said it was launching an investigation into what it described as an "act of terror". "According.. More

  • Japan-China row over ship seizure

    China has given warning to Japan that ties between the two countries could be adversely affected by the seizure of a Chinese trawler which collided with two Japanese coast guard boats. Zhan Qixiong, the captain of the boat, was transferred to prosecutors for questioning on Thursday, a day after Japan's coast guard arrested him near a group of East.. More

  • Bomb attack targets Pakistan police

    At least 18 people have been killed and more than 56 injured in a car bomb attack targeting a police headquarters in Pakistan's northwestern city of Kohat in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province. Tuesday's attack came hours after the Taliban threatened more attacks on a government and security forces already overwhelmed by the worst flooding in Pakistani history. A.. More

  • Muslims protest Serbia's land confiscation, want EU observers

    More than a thousand Muslims in Serbia staged protests at the week-end against Serbian move to build preschool facility in a land of Islamic Community in Novi Pazar, Sandzak. But police arrested unspecified number of demonstrators. Mufti Muamer Zukorlic, leader of the Islamic Community in Serbia, said that the city wants to build a kindergarten on.. More

  • US soldiers killed in Iraq

    An Iraqi soldier has killed two US soldiers and wounded nine others after he opened fire on troops in an army compound near the Iraqi city of Tuz Khurmatu in Salaheddin province. Tuesday's shooting resulted in the first US fatalities since Washington declared end to its combat operations in Iraq last week. Iraqi and US troops had been playing a sports.. More

  • IAEA: Iran boosts nuclear work

    Iran's total production of low-enriched uranium has risen by around 15 per cent since May to reach 2.8 tons, according to a restricted UN report. The report, obtained by news agencies on Monday, said that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a Vienna-based UN agency, remained concerned about possible activity in Iran to develop a nuclear.. More

  • Warnings against Quran burning plan

    US military commanders in Afghanistan have said that a small Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks could endanger the lives of American troops. Two senior US commanders in Afghanistan said on Monday the proposed burning of the Muslim noble book risked undermining President Barack Obama efforts.. More