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Man in China kills 2 in knife attack at ...

Man in China kills 2 in knife attack at school

Officials said a 40-year-old man stabbed students and teachers with a knife at a school in central China, killing two people and injuring four before jumping to his death. Chengguan township official Deng Yunshan said the attack took place on Monday morning at the Dongfang primary school in... read more »

Pakistan protestors head to Nawaz Sharif...

Pakistan protestors head to Nawaz Sharif’s house

Protestors in Islamabad on Monday moved beyond the Secretariat area and headed towards the Prime Minister’s House. At least five people were injured as the police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and resorted to baton charge to prevent the protestors from moving any further,ARY News reported. A... read more »

3 dead in protests, Pakistan army meets,...

3 dead in protests, Pakistan army meets, says won’t back off ‘playing its p...

The Pakistan military Sunday expressed serious concern over the prevailing political turmoil in the country, with the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif locked in a showdown with protesters. The Corps Commanders’ conference was held at Rawalpindi, with Chief of Army Staff General Raheel... read more »

Egyptian court sentences Brotherhood lea...

Egyptian court sentences Brotherhood leader Badie to life in prison

CAIRO: An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Badie, general guide of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, and seven others to life in prison on Saturday for inciting violence during protests last year, judicial sources said. Badie had already been sentenced to death and received a life sentence in other... read more »

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At least three injured in Istanbul gas explosion: Governor

ISTANBUL: At least three people were injured, one critically, in a gas explosion at a packaging workshop in Istanbul on Saturday, city governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu said. The accident was... read more »

Sri Lankan Muslim leader warns of radicalisation after clashes

Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Muslim minority could become radicalised and turn to foreign Islamic groups for support because of violent attacks on them by Buddhist hardliners, the island... read more »

Syrian opposition elects Hadi el-Bahra as new leader

ISTANBUL: The Syrian National Coalition, the main exiled opposition group seeking the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, on Wednesday elected Saudi-based Syrian opposition figure Hadi al-Bahra... read more »

ISIS leader urges Muslims to help build Islamic state

BAGHDAD: The leader of the extremist group that has swept over much of northern Syria and Iraq on Tuesday called on Muslims to immigrate to the territory his group has seized to help build... read more »

Syria-Iraq ‘caliph’ incites Muslims to holy war

DUBAI: The leader of the al-Qaida offshoot now calling itself the Islamic State has called on Muslims worldwide to take up arms and flock to the “caliphate” it has declared on captured... read more »