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A group of defectors from Iran has cautioned that Iranian authorities believe the West has been lulled into a false sense of security by a fatwa — a pronouncement of… Read more »

Kenyan Muslim leaders from the coast region have condemned President Barack Obama’s support of same sex marriages.   Speaking to the Nation in Mombasa, Council of Imams and Preachers Organising… Read more »

Intense debate on personal freedoms renewed recently in Morocco after a young woman wearing a short modern dress in a Rabat market was assaulted by people described as Salafists. Witnesses… Read more »

A veteran Venezuelan crossword-writer has been accused of hiding a coded message to assassinate President Hugo Chavez’s brother in the latest surreal twist to election year politics in the South… Read more »

Back from abroad, John Kerry discusses the situations in Afghanistan and Egypt. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., returned this week from visits to Afghanistan and Egypt, among… Read more »

  These are the haunting images that captured the true scale of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The black and white shots, taken in the weeks following the 1986 Ukraine tragedy,… Read more »

The site, in Guatemala, includes the first known instance of Mayan art painted on the walls of a dwelling. A report in Science says it dates from the early 9th… Read more »

PARIS (AP) — French President-elect Francois Hollande is suggesting that outgoing leader Nicolas Sarkozy’s government underestimated the country’s budget problems. The Socialist Hollande spoke after the European Union lowered its… Read more »

Pilot of the Kittyhawk P-40 was thought to have survived crash, but died trying to walk out of the desert   A Second World War plane crashed by a British… Read more »

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Adults who want sex-change surgery or hormone therapy in Argentina will be able to get it as part of their public or private health care plans… Read more »