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  • Obama denounces 'outrageous murders' of three U.S. Muslims

    U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday described the deaths of three young Muslims gunned down in North Carolina this week as "brutal and outrageous murders" and said no one in the United States should be targeted for their religion. The president's statement came as the U.S. Justice Department said it would join the FBI's preliminary inquiry.. More

  • Islamic institute on fire in southeast Houston, U.S.

    A massive blaze has ripped through an Islamic community center in Houston, Texas, on Friday. Fire has damaged an Islamic community and education center in Houston at a time when the religious complex was unoccupied. The Houston Fire Department says nobody was hurt in the fire around 5:30 a.m. CST Friday at the Quba (KOH'-buh) Islamic Institute. The.. More

  • Protests against BBC lack of coverage Muslim hate crime

    Scores of demonstrators have protested in front of the London headquarters of the British state broadcaster the BBC over its lack of coverage of the murders of three young Muslims in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The protest came late on Thursday after the three were shot dead in a residential complex in Chapel Hill on Tuesday evening. Protest.. More

  • Turkey’s Erdogan scolds Obama for being ‘silent’ on slain Muslims students

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reproached U.S. President Barack Obama and other senior officials for not speaking out publicly against the killings of three young Muslims in North Carolina this week. Speaking alongside Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto during a state visit to Latin America's second-largest economy on Thursday,.. More

  • Thousands join burial of slain Muslim students in US

    Thousands of people have joined the funeral services for three young Muslim students gunned down in the US state of North Carolina, in what family members said could be "hate crime". At least 5,000 people gathered at a mosque and nearby sports grounds in the state capital Raleigh on Thursday, to bid goodbye to the victims, Al Jazeera's Andy.. More

  • Western embassies closed, thousands protest in Yemen

    Thousands demonstrated Wednesday in Yemeni capital Sanaa to mark the anniversary of the uprising that toppled autocrat Ali Abdullah Saleh and to reject a recent government takeover by Shiite Houthi group. Protesters converged on Al-Zebeiri Street, one of Yemen's largest streets, and are expected to march through several other roads, an Anadolu Agency.. More

  • Some 300 migrants missing at sea

    An estimated 300 people probably died this week after attempting to reach Italy from Libya in stormy weather, the U.N. refugee agency said on Wednesday after speaking to a handful of survivors. An Italian tug boat rescued 9 people who had been on two different boats on Monday and brought them to the Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday morning. They.. More

  • Yemen's Houthis reportedly abduct 4 media workers

    Members of Yemen's Shiite Houthi group have reportedly abducted four employees of a media organization in capital Sanaa. "[Houthis] abducted three protesting employees from the Shomoa media establishment and took them to an undisclosed location," sources with the media outlet told. A distributer for the Akhbar al-Youm publication was also.. More

  • Floods paralyze Indonesia's capital

    Parts of Indonesia's capital have been paralyzed by floods after torrential downpours swamped the city overnight. Heavy rain disrupted transportation throughout the city. Thousands of train passengers were left stranded when two of Jakarta’s main stations flooded, some areas left 2-1/2 feet deep in water. The head of the country's Regional Disaster.. More

  • Israeli bulldozers raze Palestinian home in E. Jerusalem

    Israeli authorities have demolished a Palestinian house in occupied East Jerusalem on the pretext that it was built without a permit, eyewitnesses have said. An Israeli police force – backed by four bulldozers – arrived in the Silwan neighborhood early Tuesday and demolished the house, witnesses added. According to the witnesses, the building.. More

  • Yemen talks to resume as coup is condemned

    The United Nations envoy to Yemen says a national dialogue to resolve the country's crisis will resume on Monday, three days after Houthi fighters took power in a move widely condemned as a "coup". Jamal Benomar said on Sunday that all of the country's political factions, including the Houthis, would participate. "Following consultations.. More

  • Dozens killed in violence at Cairo football game

    At least 40 people have been killed and dozens injured in a stampede and clashes between police and supporters of Egypt's Zamalek football club at a game in Cairo, medics say. According to witness accounts, police tried to set up barricades and used tear gas to disperse football fans trying to force their way into the army-owned stadium in the city's.. More

  • Gulf countries condemn Houthi takeover as coup

    The Gulf Cooperation Council has accused Shi'ite Houthi rebels of staging a coup in Yemen after they announced they were dissolving parliament and forming a new government, Kuwait's official news agency said on Saturday. The opposition of the GCC, a six-nation bloc comprising energy-rich Gulf states, may signal growing isolation for the impoverished.. More

  • Blast in Yemeni capital as thousands protest militia takeover

    A bomb exploded outside the republican palace in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Saturday and wounded three Houthi militiamen guarding it, eyewitnesses said. According to Reuters, the attack raised tensions a day after the Houthi group dissolved parliament and formally took power of the impoverished and strife-torn Arabian Peninsula country. Once the.. More

  • Israel detains 11 Palestinians in W. Bank

    The Israeli army has detained 11 Palestinians in overnight raids in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian NGO said Thursday. "The Israeli army arrested 11 Palestinians from several areas in the occupied West Bank after raiding and searching their houses," the Palestinian Prisoner Club said in a statement. The Israeli army has yet to comment.. More