SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia passed laws on Friday seen as crucial to reviving its European Union accession bid, with Serb, Croat and Muslim leaders agreeing to the first census since 1991 and to a...

Newly-elected Kyrgyz President Atambayev says he will shut down the key US military base in the country. Former President Bakiyev wanted to do the same, but changed his mind a year before a major...

A Calgary imam will take the bold step of issuing a fatwa -- an official religious edict pronounced by a scholar of the Muslim faith -- against honour killings and domestic abuse on...

MONTREAL, Feb 3, 2012 (AFP) - A Muslim businessman in Canada became a terror suspect for telling his sales staff in a text message to "blow away" the competition at a New York City trade...

CALGARY -- A Calgary imam will take the bold step of issuing a fatwa -- an official religious edict pronounced by a scholar of the Muslim faith -- against honour killings and domestic abuse on...

Sat Feb 4, 2012 The oppression of Muslims in the United States has become similar to the mistreatment Jews experienced in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, a US-based Imam tells Press TV. "This is the...

In response, 33 civil rights groups urged New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to investigate. Previous documents obtained by AP showed that police monitored entire neighborhoods and built...

Civic groups from around the US are calling for a legal investigation into intelligence-gathering on Shia Muslims by the New York Police Department. The complaint comes after an internal memo became...

03-02-2012 MANILA, (IRIN): The UN and its partners have revised upwards their emergency appeal for storm-affected Mindanao to US$39 million from the original $28.4 million. The second emergency...

While mass media link the Pakistani society with extremism, I found this association was rather simplistic. Contrary to what is being projected in mass media, the Pakistani society is a civilized...

No, it is not the fragrance of a Channel No.5; more like the foul odor of fermenting sewage water. This is, after all, the kingdom of the civil servant, and what goes on here is largely unseen by the...

RIYADH: The means and ways to be followed by senior government officials in disclosing their holdings and properties have been submitted to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah for final...

JEDDAH: Agencies probing the Jeddah flood disaster have filed fresh charges against some suspects, accusing them of being involved in money...

JEDDAH: More than 70 people involved in the current crisis of cement shortage in Jeddah will be investigated and sentenced according to the rules and regulations of the Ministry of Commerce and...

MAKKAH: The decision of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah to pay a monthly allowance of SR2,000 to unemployed Saudi men and women for a year has created an economic boom in Makkah...

"Citizens who are included in the Financially Wanted System (FWS), which links the civil affairs department in various regions with the traffic police, Passport Department, recruitment offices,...

JEDDAH: A former senior official at Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry has lauded the efforts of the Makkah governorate and the chamber to regulate the real estate...

KUWAIT: Kuwait's Islamist-led opposition made significant gains in a snap election, while women candidates did not win a single seat in the Gulf state's fourth Parliament in six years,...

The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said security forces dispersed the demonstrations in the Janoub Al-Malaab district of Hama, where residents planned to release 1,000 red balloons to...

ABU DHABI: Pakistan's cricket team has proved through its splendid performance it can beat any team in the world, Pakistan's Ambassador to the UAE Jamil Ahmad Khan said during a function at...

BERLIN: Former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is brushing aside a cake-in-the-face attack, saying in a Facebook posting that at least he didn't go hungry at an event in...

RIYADH: Under the aegis of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, the Saudi Council of Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) is planning to organize an exhibition of retrieved pieces of antiquity...

The municipality awarded the project to refurbish and construct new walls around the cemeteries to a Saudi company, which started work Thursday. The project is estimated to cost SR5.63 million,...

JEDDAH: A number of prominent legal experts and jurists have underlined the need for reining in the rising tide of litigation in the Kingdom. They point out that most of the cases that have been...

Sheikh Mohammad Hussein was appointed Mufti of Jerusalem by Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas in 2006. (Photo: Matthew Bell) Israelis are used to hearing hateful speech from some of their...

Turkey in The Middle East, 2010." This is the second report of its kind trying to measure Turkey's popularity in the Arab world. Through face-to-face or telephone interviews with 2,267...

CAIRO -- A Cairo court has sentenced the Arab world's most famous actor, Adel Iman, to three months in jail for "defaming Islam" in several roles on stage and screen, the Egyptian...

NEW YORK — Muslim groups and interfaith leaders are holding a rally in the wake of a report about New York Police Department intelligence. The rally is scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday at...

Enlarge Image FILE - In this June 17, 2011 file photo, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly attends a news conference at police headquarters in New York. Thirty-two civil rights groups...

TEHRAN: Iran has its "own threats" to respond to any military attack or sanctions against its oil exports, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on...

ISLAMABAD: A question being frequently asked in Pakistan as to what kind of new ties Pakistan needs to develop with its strategic ally, America, especially after the Salala post attack by US jets...

LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron was making a third unwanted shake up of his government Friday, after prosecutors charged Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne over an alleged attempt to pin a...

MELBOURNE: India ran out four Australian batsmen in a brilliant fielding effort before surviving a late attack of nerves to win the second Twenty20 match by eight wickets with two balls to spare on...

One of the Arab world's best known Egyptian comedians has been sentenced to three months in jail for offending Islam, a judge said Thursday, in the latest such case against a high-profile...

NEW YORK - Muslim groups and interfaith leaders are holding a rally in the wake of a report about New York Police Department intelligence. The rally is scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday at...

NEW YORK- The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for...

Elisabeth Hasselbeck , co-host of 'The View' has been one of the most famous proponents of the gluten-free diet. Tired of having to give up her favorite recipes and eat separately from her...