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A large screen shows the falling Korean benchmark stock index as a South Korean investor watches a stock price board at the Korea Stock Exchange in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index fell 5.81 percent, or 79.41 point, to close at 1
Currency   Economy   Korea   Photos   Trade		  The New York Times 
N. Korea Revalues Currency to Curb Free Trade
Tue 1 Dec 2009
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea has revalued its currency, knocking two zeros off the nominal value of its notes, news reports said on Tuesday. Analysts in Seoul saw the move as a crude form of shock... (photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon)
Muslim pilgrims head to Arafat from Mina near Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Islam   Muslim   Photos   Religion   Women		  Tulsa World 
Muslim women find strength in hajj
Tue 1 Dec 2009
One of the main rites at Islam's annual hajj centers on the bravery and determination of a woman. According to Muslim tradition, Hagar, the consort of the patriarch Abraham, ran between two hills... (photo: AP / Hassan Ammar)
A poster of a conservative initiative promoting the ban of the building of minarets in Switzerland is sprayed with a peace sign and a sticker saying "thank you" in the village of Amsteg in central Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009.  The Star  Mon 30 Nov 2009
Swiss minaret ban may signal new right-wing surge

ZURICH (Reuters) - A Swiss vote to ban the construction of new minarets puts the spotlight on the Alpine country's social and political divisions and could herald a new surge in populist,... (photo: AP / Keystone, Urs Flueeler)
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Trees - Mosque - Religion - Islam - Minaret - Uskudar - Istanbul - Turkey  Seattle Times  Mon 30 Nov 2009
Swiss ban construction of minarets

GENEVA - In a vote that displayed a widespread anxiety about Islam and undermined the country's reputation for religious tolerance, the Swiss on Sunday overwhelmingly imposed a national ban on the... (photo: WN / akgunsemra)
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The minaret of the big mosque of Geneva captured on Sunday Nov. 29, 2009 in Geneva, in Switzerland. Swiss people accepted this Sunday the initiative forbidding the construction of new minarets in Switzerland. Al Jazeera Mon 30 Nov 2009
Swiss brace for minaret backlash

In the cold night air, they gathered.  First in threes and fours, until it became a bigger group. They carried candles and their anger - upset that... (photo: AP / Keystone, Dominic Favre)
Islam   Justice   Photos   Society   Switzerland
A rescue ship lifts a capsized ferry M.V. Coco in the coastal district of Bhola, 64 miles (104 kilometers) south of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. The News Tribune Mon 30 Nov 2009
Ferry death toll rises to 62

Authorities say the death toll from a weekend capsizing of a ferry in southern Bangladesh has risen to 62 after the recovery of an additional four bodies. Local police... (photo: AP / Anisur Rahman)
Bangladesh   Disasters   Photos   Rescue   Victims
People wait at a tram stop in front of the illuminated minaret of the Mahmud Mosque in Zurich, Switzerland, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. Swiss voters approved a move to ban the construction of minarets in a Sunday vote on a right-wing initiative that labeled the mosque towers as symbols of militant Islam, projections by a widely respected polling institute showed. The Independent Mon 30 Nov 2009
Switzerland votes to ban the building of minarets
The spectre of religious and racial intolerance was raised over Switzerland last night as a majority of voters backed a deeply controversial proposal to ban the building... (photo: AP / Keystone, Alessandro Della Bella)
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Police watches demonstrators gathering on the Bundeshaus square in front of the governments building in Bern, Switzerland, to protest the acceptance of a minaret ban initiative on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. Wall Street Journal Sun 29 Nov 2009
Switzerland Votes to Ban Minarets

By DEBORAH BALL ZURICH -- Swiss voters Sunday approved a ban on the construction of new minarets on mosques, defying appeals from the government to reject the proposal... (photo: AP / Keystone, Peter Klaunzer)
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A model of a minaret, burning candles and a banner that reads "This is not my Switzerland" are seen on the Bundesplatz square in front of the governments building in Bern, Switzerland, to protest the acceptance of a minaret ban initiative on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. The Guardian Sun 29 Nov 2009
Swiss ban mosque minarets in surprise vote

ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS Associated Press Writer= GENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on minarets on Sunday, barring construction of the... (photo: AP / Keystone, Peter Klaunzer)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, center, gestures as he speaks during a meeting with former Prime Ministers socialist Michel Rocard, front right, conservative Alain Juppe, front left, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, left and French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, right, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. French President Nicolas Sarkozy assigned a leading conservative and leading Socialist to figure out how to spend money from an exceptional government bond issue meant to stimulate the recession hit economy. French President Nicolas Sarkozy may have played a part in Roman Polanski's release on bail The Examiner
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