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  • Muslims more numerous than Catholics

    Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday. "For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us," Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican's yearbook. He said that.. More

  • Taliban welcomes offer of talks

    Pakistan's Taliban movement has welcomed an offer by the country's prime minister to hold talks with them and has urged Islamabad to abandon the US-led "war on terror," a spokesman for the movement has said. Maulvi Omar said the announcement by the federal government to hold talks with the Taliban would improve law and order in Pakistan. There.. More

  • Arabs denounce Dutch anti-Islam film

    Islamic and Arab leaders denounced a Dutch film Saturday that portrays Islam as a ticking time bomb aimed at the West, demanding international laws to prevent insults to religions. The 15-minute film entitled "Fitna," or "ordeal" in Arabic, by Dutch anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders brought condemnations from Muslim capitals and street protests.. More

  • Sadr urges support for 'resistance'

    Muqtada al-Sadr, a Iraqi Shia leader, has called on Arab states to support his militia's battle against "US occupation", amid continuing clashes between armed Shia groups and Iraqi government forces. His remarks on Saturday came as Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, called Shia militias in the southern city of Basra "worse than al-Qaeda". More.. More

  • Two die in Nepal mosque bombing

    Two people have been killed and at least one more injured after a mosque was bombed in Nepal's second biggest city, Biratnagar. Reports say two men on a motorcycle hurled four bombs at the Choti mosque during evening prayers on Saturday. Three of the devices exploded, and two of the people who were seriously injured died on their way to hospital... More

  • Troops shell Somali market, killing 11

    At least 11 people were killed in Mogadishu on Saturday when troops at the Villa Somalia presidential palace returned fire against Islamist fighters who attacked it with mortar bombs, witnesses said. President Abdullahi Yusuf was meeting Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin there at the time, an aide told Reuters, but no one in the hilltop compound.. More

  • Tanzania mine flood kills many

    At least six people have been killed and many others are feared dead after a tanzanite mine in northern Tanzania flooded due to heavy rains. Saturday's accident occurred in Mererani, a mining area about 400km north of Tanzania's capital Dar es Salaam. "We have so far received six bodies and are still searching for others," a police official at.. More

  • Deadly blast at Afghan power plant

    At least two people were killed and another eight injured when a bomb exploded at a power plant in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban said that the bomb was planted in an attempt to kill Razak Khan, the police chief in the Gereshk district of Helmand province. A Taliban spokesman claimed that Khan was among the wounded but local officials.. More

  • No-shows overshadow Arab summit

    Representatives from Arab states have begun gathering in Damascus for a summit already undermined by a series of snubs by national leaders. Yemen and Jordan on Friday announced they would be sending low-level delegations to an annual Arab League meeting normally attended by heads of state. A Jordanian official said that the kingdom's delegate.. More

  • Zimbabweans start voting in crucial election

    Zimbabweans began voting on Saturday in the most crucial election since independence from Britain in 1980, with veteran President Robert Mugabe facing the biggest challenge of his 28-year-rule. Voting began at 0706 a.m. (1:06 a.m. EDT) and was scheduled to end 12 hours later. With the once-prosperous nation's economy in ruins, former guerrilla.. More

  • UN says 'network' killed Hariri

    A UN commission investigating the death of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri says the evidence suggests a network of people was responsible for the attack. No individuals were named, but the investigators said what it called the "Hariri Network" might also be behind other deadly attacks in Lebanon. The ex-PM and 22 others died in a huge car bombing.. More

  • Middle East envoys discuss agenda for coming Arab summit

    As Damascus prepares for the Arab Summit that begins tomorrow, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said his country was seeking the Kingdom’s help to solve the political crisis in Lebanon. “Syrian efforts alone are not enough. There should be a combined effort by all Arab parties who have friends and influence in Lebanon, especially our brothers.. More

  • Hamas, Islamic Jihad reject truce with Israel

    A new round of talks between Egypt and the Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad ended yesterday without agreement on striking a truce with Israel. Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad said they rejected a cease-fire unless Israel stopped all raids in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, ended its Gaza blockade and reopened the coastal territory’s.. More

  • Pakistani intelligence agents shot

    Two Pakistani counterterrorism intelligence agents have been killed after being shot in an apparent "target killing" in Karachi, the capital of Sindh province, according to police. The two men were shot on the street by unknown attackers on Thursday and subsequently died from their wounds. "Both men were working for the intelligence bureau,".. More

  • Baghdad under curfew

    Authorities in Baghdad have imposed a three-day curfew on the Iraqi capital as the country's prime minister pledged there would be "no retreat" in the fight against Shia militias. Thursday's total curfew order - intended to "protect civilians" - came as clashes between Iraqi security forces and fighters from the Mahdi Army, led by Shia cleric.. More