Posts Tagged ‘ Muslim ’

Baghdad blasts target Shi’ites, kill 63 

December 23, 2011
Baghdad blasts target Shi’ites, kill 63 

Iraqi security forces inspect the site of the bomb attack in Baghdad’s Shaab District, northern Baghdad, December 22, 2011. A wave of bombings killed at least 63 people in Baghdad on Thursday, the first attacks since Iraq’s Shi’ite-led government was engulfed in a crisis that risks fracturing the country along sectarian and ethnic faultlines. The [...]

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Al-Qaeda vows to avenge death of ‘martyr’ bin Laden 

May 7, 2011
Al-Qaeda vows to avenge death of ‘martyr’ bin Laden 

Pakistani Islamists chant anti-US slogans holding a picture of Osama bin Laden during a protest outskirt Quetta. Al-Qaeda and Islamic militants have vowed to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden by US commandos, declaring him a “martyr” and calling on Muslims to rise up against the United States. But US President Barack Obama swept [...]

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France bans Muslim full-face veil 

April 11, 2011
France bans Muslim full-face veil 

File photo shows a Muslim woman wearing the niqab (veil which covers the body and leaves only a small strip for the eyes) with her passport during a meeting in Montreuil, outside Paris. France, home to Europe’s biggest Muslim population, banned the wearing of full-face veils in public Monday, despite threats of protest from a [...]

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‘Radicalization’ hearings reignite US Muslim debate 

March 10, 2011
‘Radicalization’ hearings reignite US Muslim debate 

Men pray on the street before the start of the American Muslim Day Parade in New York. A US lawmaker on Thursday was to hold provocative hearings on the alleged radicalization of US Muslims, in a move critics say fans anti-Islam sentiment nearly a decade after the 9/11 attacks. Representative Peter King, the Republican who [...]

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Mubarak cabinet meets as ‘Nile Revolution’ digs in 

February 7, 2011
Mubarak cabinet meets as ‘Nile Revolution’ digs in 

Anti-Mubarak protesters shout slogans to show their support for the anti-Mubarak demonstrations in Egypt, in front of the Egyptian embassy in Madrid February 6, 2011. President Hosni Mubarak’s new cabinet on Monday held its first full meeting since an uprising started nearly two weeks ago, with no concrete progress in talks with Islamists and an [...]

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Cambodia mourns worst tragedy since Khmer Rouge reign 

November 27, 2010
Cambodia mourns worst tragedy since Khmer Rouge reign 

Nine Vietnamese-Cambodians among 351 dead as festival-goers panic Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen weeps for victims of the stampede which killed at least 351 people on the Diamond Bridge in Phnom Penh Grief ran deep as Cambodia, led by a visibly emotional Prime Minister Hun Sen, mourned the deaths of 351 people in a stampede [...]

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LIFESTYLE IN BRIEF 21/8

August 21, 2009
LIFESTYLE IN BRIEF 21/8

Exhibition on achievements on realising President Ho Chi Minh’s testament; Ha Long Bay rises to 4th in World’s Natural Wonders list; Ethnic Cham community to hold Muslim festival; Ancient Champa stele unearthed Exhibition on achievements on realising President Ho Chi Minh’s testament Achievements gained in realising President Ho Chi Minh for the past 40 years [...]

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Obama hopes "new beginning" with Muslims

June 5, 2009
Obama hopes "new beginning" with Muslims

U.S. President Barack Obama said in a major speech to the Muslim world on Thursday that the United States seeks a new beginning of relations with Muslims based on mutual interests and respect. U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a long anticipated speech on June 4, 2009 to the Muslim world during his visit to Egypt [...]

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Obama says Americans are not enemy of the Muslim world

January 28, 2009
Obama says Americans are not enemy of the Muslim world

U.S. President Barack Obama has said that America is not enemy of the Muslim world, local mass media reported Tuesday. In his interview with the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news channel which aired Tuesday, Obama said that his job for the Muslim world was to “communicate that the Americans are not your enemy.” The U.S. had made [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...