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| Close ranks to preserve unity: King Abdullah |
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan, deputy premier and minister of defense and aviation, on Thursday urged Muslims all over the world to stand united on the basis of the Qur’an and Sunnah...
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| Iran to free female US hiker |
Iran will soon free Sarah Shourd, one of three US hikers the Islamic republic detained more than a year ago, an Iranian diplomat announced on Thursday...
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| Gunmen behead, set alight Sunni cleric in Iraq |
Gunmen stormed the house of a Sunni cleric on Thursday and cut his head off before setting him alight in an attack that bore the hallmark of insurgents, a police spokesman said...
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| Bahrain calls Quran burning plans 'shameful' |
Bahrain says plans by a Florida church to burn copies of the Holy Quran are a shameful attack on efforts for dialogue between faiths...
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| Iran president to visit Lebanon in October |
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is scheduled to make a two-day visit to Lebanon in October to discuss relations, including his country's offer of military assistance to the Lebanese army against Israeli threats...
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| Soldier killed in south Yemen clashes |
Gunmen killed a soldier during a series of attacks on Thursday in Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, where violence linked to Al Qaeda has been on the rise, officials said...
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| Kuwait condemns planned burning of Quran by US Christian group |
Kuwait strongly condemns the planned burning of the Holy Quran by the Florida-based Dove World Outreach Center on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, said an official source at the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry on Thursday...
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