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Plea to refocus UN millennium goals

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has opened the annual UN General Assembly summit with a plea to the presidents, prime…

16 years ago

Kuwait revokes citizenship of yaser habib

Kuwait stripped Shiite activist Yasser al-Habeeb of his citizenship on Monday, accusing him of abusing religious symbols and attempting to…

16 years ago

Israel makes infantry ‘more lethal’

The Israeli army has finished reviewing the structure of its infantry battalions in an effort to increase their "lethal" power…

16 years ago

Indian police kill another in Kashmir

One person has been killed and 14 others have been injured after police in Indian-administered Kashmir opened fire on participants…

16 years ago

Pope ‘ashamed’ of child abuse cases

Pope Benedict XVI has said he is deeply ashamed of the "unspeakable" sexual abuse of children by priests in the…

16 years ago

Deadly blast hits southeast Turkey

At least eight people have been killed in a blast on board a minibus in southeast Turkey, local officials have…

16 years ago

German state to teach Islam in schools

The German state of Lower Saxony will start including Islam in its schools’ core curriculum as part of an initiative…

16 years ago

French senate passes face-veil ban

The French senate has voted in favour of a bill to ban face-covering veils in public, a proposal that has…

16 years ago

Abu Zuhri: Storming Aqsa, settlement drive point to failure of talks

GAZA, (PIC)-- Storming the Aqsa Mosque and the unabated settlement drive gave no room for doubt that the negotiations between…

16 years ago

Turks approve constitution change

Voters in Turkey have approved a plan for major changes to the country's constitution. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister,…

16 years ago