Conservative groups in Greece threaten to stop construction of mosque, while Zaha Hadid denies she offered to design it.
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November 29th, 2010
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November 29th, 2010
The British government has warned that its citizens in Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and other parts of the Muslim world could be targeted in a violent backlash over "anti-Islamic" views expressed in diplomatic documents being leaked this week, media reports said on Sunday.
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November 29th, 2010
The East London Mosque Trust celebrated the launch of its centenary year on Saturday at the House of Lords hosted by the Lord Altaf Sheikh of Cornhill. Speaking on the occasion, Lord Sheikh said the East London Mosque and Centre has had a glorious past and the mosque leaders are not resting on their laurels, and they continue to go forward in strength to strength.
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November 29th, 2010
Researches may have found a way to grow back a damaged spine using ethical stem cells.
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November 28th, 2010
Two Afghans accused of converting to Christianity, including a Red Cross employee, could face the death penalty, a prosecuting lawyer said on Sunday. Musa Sayed, 45, and Ahmad Shah, 50, are being detained in the Afghan capital awaiting trial, the prosecutor in charge of western Kabul, Din Mohammad Quraishi.
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November 28th, 2010
The death sentence on Asia Bibi, a Christian woman in Pakistan, for blasphemy has set off a storm of debate about her fate.
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November 28th, 2010
Anjem Choudary, who was also involved with the banned group Islam4UK which planned a protest march through Wootton Bassett, will have free reign to give his views during an edition of the channel's daily opinion slot, known as 4thought.tv.
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November 28th, 2010
The only illumination that lit up the sky on the first Christmas was the star over Bethlehem. But more than 2,000 years later, the streets of Britain are ablaze with a bizarre array of garish neon images – some with only the most tenuous of links to the festive season.
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November 28th, 2010
The leader of a Muslim fundamentalist militant group was among 12 arrested in connection with a deadly church siege in Baghdad last month, Iraq's Interior Ministry said Saturday.
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November 27th, 2010
Anti-abortion campaigners are spreading graphic "propaganda" in schools to shock children with images of foetal body parts and surgery, teachers have claimed.