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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, gestures to supporters in Isfahan 400kms (240 miles) south of Tehran on Wednesday April 8, 2009.
Iran   People   Photos   Police   Tehran
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Iran police clash with mourners, 50 arrested
Thu 24 Dec 2009
TEHRAN - Iranian police clashed with mourners at a memorial service Wednesday for dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, arresting more than 50 and beating women and children, reports... (photo: AP / Amir Pourmandi)
NOVEMBER 8 , 2008 , MINDANAO SEA , PHILIPPINES - OVERLOOKING BEACH ISLAND IN ZAMBOANGA ISLAND FROM  MINDANAO SEA
Kidnappings   Philippines   Photos   Warlords   Terrorism
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Mindanao in 2009
Wed 23 Dec 2009
Al Jacinto: Arab News ZAMBOANGA CITY: the southern Philippine region of Mindanao, despite its vast natural resources and beautiful and pristine beaches, remains to be a dangerous place.... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Veiled Palestinian women participate in a demonstration calling for reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas factions, in Gaza City, Wednesday, March 26, 2008. The Arab country of Yemen hosted reconciliation talks this week between Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement. However, those talks unraveled amid fresh recriminations between the Palestinian rivals. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)  Khaleej Times  Tue 22 Dec 2009
Muslims Pay for Europe's Identity Crisis

It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theater in France. Unlike theatre, however, the disturbing trend can, and will turn ugly ' in fact to a degree it already... (photo: AP / Hatem Moussa)
Europe   Islam   Photos   Racism   Society
French President Nicolas Sarkozy gestures while speaking during a press conference after a special EU summit at the EU Council building in Brussels, Thursday Sept. 17, 2009. The U.S. is set to face renewed pressure from the EU Thursday as the bloc's 27 leaders meet to draft a strategy to push President Barack Obama to agree on a cap on excessive executive and trader bonuses.  The Guardian  Tue 22 Dec 2009
France may ban women from wearing burka in public

Nicolas Sarkozy's ruling party cites concern over women's freedom in taking tough line with legislation... (photo: AP / Michel Euler)
France   Photos   Politics   Sarkozy   Women
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Malaysia - Consumer - Food - Inflation. Syracuse Tue 22 Dec 2009
Malaysia Muslims sour over revamped pork soup
(AP) - KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian government-backed campaign to popularize a well-known ethnic Chinese soup by making a version that avoids pork and fulfills... (photo: WN / patricia)
Food   Malaysia   Muslim   Photos   Women
Mourners surround the casket of the Iranian Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the spiritual father of Iran's reform movement, during his funeral ceremony, in the city of Qom 78 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. The Boston Globe Tue 22 Dec 2009
Many protest during Iranian cleric's funeral
TEHRAN - Tens of thousands of mourners massed in Qom yesterday for the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the religious leader of Iran's opposition... (photo: AP)
Leader   Photos   Protest   Religious   Tehran
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks to the media at the presidency in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 14, 2009 World Security Network Mon 21 Dec 2009
On Human Rights Day 2009: A Look at Iran

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad answers questions of journalists during a meeting with AFP in Copenhagen. Since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected President of the... (photo: AP / Ben Curtis)
Iran   Photos   Political   President   Social
In a June 12, 2009, file photo Mir Hossein Mousavi, left, flashes the victory sign after speaking at a press conference in Tehran, Iran. Mousavi has vowed he will stand by the protesters whose week of defiance has deeply shaken Iran. In an Aug. 26, 2008 file photo Hashemi Rafsanjani,head of the cleric-run Assembly of Experts, speaks at an Assembly session in Tehran, Iran. In the clearest sign yet of a splintering among the ayatollahs, state media announced the arrests Sunday, June 21, 2009, of relatives of Rafsanjani. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Mon 21 Dec 2009
Death of Iranian Cleric Could Set Off New Protests
BEIRUT -- Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri of Iran, a plain-spoken senior Shiite cleric who became a fierce critic of the country's hard-line rulers, died Sunday,... (photo: AP / File)
Beirut   Iran   Photos   Protests   Victory
Around 500 persons take part at a demonstration against a minaret ban, organized by the central council of Muslims, on the Bundesplatz square in Bern, Switzerland, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. On Nov. Khaleej Times Sun 20 Dec 2009
Look Beyond the Minarets

The Swiss have spoken. The land of alpenhorns, cuckoo clocks, cowbells and chocolates has voted against the construction of minarets in a referendum that has come as a... (photo: AP / Keystone, Lukas Lehmann)
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