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WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama remembered the dead of the "awful" September 11 attacks in 2001

Obama remembered Muslim Americans who worshiped together at the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York

US President: We must be the America they lived for, the…

Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation. Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta. Ithaca Press

Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta’s book refutes that idea solidly through its investigation into the non-violent resistance movement taking place in Palestine and in Israel.

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I remember how exhilarated I felt when I was told I was old enough to fast for the month of Ramadan. My feelings had

One of multiple Gaza-led charity campaigns to aid Somalia is called 'From Gaza: hand in hand to save the children of Somalia'. Gaza, itself under a harsh Israeli siege imposed since Hamas was elected to power in 2006, has been one of the first places to respond to calls for help, notes Ramzy…

RAMALLAH - A delegation of Arab foreign ministers will urge permanent members of the Security Council next week to

Top Palestinian official says Arab FMs will talk with…

UNITED NATIONS - Ten percent of Somali children aged under five are dying every 11 weeks in the country's

The aid need has not been fully raised yet

Ten percent of Somali children aged under five dying every 11 weeks in country's devastating…

JERUSALEM - Israel's army has dropped references to God in a text read at a ceremony honouring fallen soldiers, a

Too much religion in the army

Israeli army drops Yitzkor text after protest from secular families of fallen soldiers.

 military…

CHICAGO - A federal appeals court has cleared the way for a civil suit against former defense secretary Donald

His torture legacy is catching up with him

American civilians, who say were tortured by US military in Iraq for whistle-blowing, allowed to take Rumsfeld to…

PARIS — They beat up black and Arab football fans, terrorize immigrant neighborhoods, smash Muslim and Jewish

Some extremists even say Breivik wasn't xenophobic enough

European far-right extremists reject softening their hate rhetoric even after Norway's massacre left…