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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It is a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women’s sports are severely restricted, her proud father said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 
Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of Imran Khan’s Movement for Justice party, has been shot dead in the city of Karachi.
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By By ADAM NOSSITER, on May 17th, 2013 Military officials said attacks were launched against the Boko Haram Islamist group in border areas in a forest south of the city of Maiduguri.
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By By MARK LANDLER, on May 15th, 2013 A senior official suggested on Wednesday that Israel could carry out further attacks to stop the transfer of weapons to Islamic militants, and he warned of dire consequences if Syria’s government struck back.
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> On April 24, Reshma Begum was working in a factory on the second floor of Rana Plaza when the building began collapsing around her. She raced down a stairwell into the basement, where she became trapped near a Muslim prayer room in a wide space that allowed her to survive. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Eight people were killed when a fire swept through a garment factory in an industrial district of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, police and an industry association official said on Thursday. The fire, which broke out overnight in the Mirpur area, occurred two weeks after more than 780 people were killed in a factory collapse outside the city, the South Asian country’s worst industrial accident. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By David Frum, on May 8th, 2013 Democracy? Not so fast, say Pakistan’s religious minorities: the 4% who are non-Muslim, and the additional 10-15% who profess the Shi’ite version of Islam.
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By Phil Klay, on May 8th, 2013 Phil Klay on a novel that depicts terrorism, Islam, and radicalization from the Pakistani perspective.
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bombs killed 17 people and wounded dozens more including an election candidate in Pakistan on Tuesday, raising to more than 100 the death toll from attacks on the campaign for Saturday’s polls. The attacks took place in the northwestern town of Hangu, a flashpoint for violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, and in the northwestern district of Dir, where Pakistani troops crushed a Taliban-led insurgency in 2009. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By David Frum, on May 6th, 2013 Turkey's trend toward Islamic law threatens not only religious freedom, but the artistic heritage of Europe.
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The perpetrators of deadly violence last week in China’s Xinjiang region held secret Koran study sessions and possessed extremist religious literature, authorities said on Tuesday, accusations likely to be used by Beijing as justification for its strict rules on Islam in the vast northwestern territory. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bangladesh on Tuesday defended its decision to snub foreign aid after the collapse of a factory complex as anger flared at the recovery operation and towards the building’s owner when he appeared in court. With the death toll from the country’s worst ever industrial disaster now standing at 382, Western retailers offered compensation to the victims of last Wednesday’s tragedy on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A blaze broke out in the wreckage of a Bangladesh factory block on Sunday, killing a woman whose 110-hour battle for survival had touched the nation following its worst industrial disaster, the country’s fire chief said. Earlier, the owner of the complex, property tycoon Sohel Rana, was detained as he attempted to cross into India and was flown back to Dhaka where he will face charges over the building’s collapse which has so far claimed 381 lives. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Rescue teams at the site of a collapsed factory block in Bangladesh where 367 people have died called in heavy-lifting equipment on Sunday as hopes of finding more survivors faded. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More prisoners have joined a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention at the US-run Guantanamo military prison, with 92 out of 166 detainees refusing food, a spokesman said on Wednesday. Among them, 17 are on feeding tubes and two are hospitalised but do not have “life-threatening conditions”, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel House said in a statement. The rapidly growing movement began on February 6, lawyers for the detainees said. Prison authorities began releasing figures on the strike on March 15, saying 14 inmates were participating. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ANNE BARNARD, on April 25th, 2013 As Islamists increasingly fill the ranks of Syrian rebels, President Bashar al-Assad is waging an energized campaign to persuade the United States that it is on the wrong side of the war.
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By Anna Nemtsova, on April 24th, 2013 Zubeidat Tsarnaeva tells Anna Nemtsova investigators are asking her about an Armenian convert to Islam.
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By David Frum, on April 24th, 2013 Boston mosque refuses to give Tamerlan Tsarnaev an Islamic funeral, NBC reports.
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By , on April 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At least 15 people were killed and many more feared dead when an eight-storey building housing a market and garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh on Wednesday, officials said. Only the ground floor of the Rana Plaza in the town of Savar outside Dhaka, which also housed a bank branch, remained intact when the incident occurred at about 9.00am, said the officials. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, on April 23rd, 2013 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon attacks, said he and his brother were not connected to any known terrorist groups, law enforcement officials said.
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