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Did US Christian Right Know Gbagbo's Other Wife Is Muslim?

Apr 14, 2011 - 12:14 PM |AOL News

Prominent members of the U.S. religious right have trumpeted their support of Ivory Coast's just-captured former president, Laurent Gbagbo -- and some of their rhetoric emphasizes that Gbagbo is an...

New Furor Over France's Muslims as Veil Ban Looms

Apr 4, 2011 - 1:43 PM |AP

Fred Dufour, AFP / Getty Images

TRAPPES, France -- Karima has a plan. If police stop her for wearing a veil over her face, she'll remove it - then put it back on once they're out of sight. If that doesn't work, she'll stay home, or...

Gadhafi in Groucho Glasses? Even al-Qaida Thinks He's a 'Lunatic'

Mar 31, 2011 - 7:51 AM |AOL News

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The spring issue of al-Qaida's English-language magazine calls Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi a "lunatic" who "pretends to be like a rock star," and says the terror network actually supports the wave...

Nation of Islam Looks to UFOs to Save the World

Mar 23, 2011 - 3:36 PM |AOL News

It isn't often you hear about entire religious groups seriously interested in unidentified flying objects. But UFOs are what the Nation of Islam, led by the controversial Minister Louis Farrakhan,...

Egyptians Vote in Major Test of Shift to Democracy

Mar 19, 2011 - 9:40 AM |AP

CAIRO -- Eager for their first taste of a free vote in decades, Egyptians lined up by the hundreds Saturday to vote on constitutional amendments sponsored by the ruling military that critics fear...

Emotions Dominate Congressional Panel's Muslim Hearing

Mar 10, 2011 - 2:50 PM |AOL News

WASHINGTON -- Do radicalized Muslims in America pose a unique threat to the country's security? This was the central question argued today at an emotionally charged hearing on the Hill. The hearing,...

White House Backpedals From Military Action on Libya

Mar 9, 2011 - 2:34 PM |AOL News

Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP

The Obama administration today stepped back from the prospect of imminent U.S. military action to support rebel forces in Libya, voicing reluctance to enforce a no-fly zone without United Nations...

Christians in Pakistan Mourn Slain Catholic Cabinet Minister

Mar 2, 2011 - 5:40 PM |AOL News

K.M. Chaudary, AP

Pakistan's forlorn church bells were tolling once again after the sole Christian in the federal government -- a rare voice for moderation and tolerance -- was assassinated by gunmen today outside his...

Researchers Say They Can Restore 1 of Destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas

Mar 1, 2011 - 3:01 PM |AOL News

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Researchers in Germany said today they believe it may be possible to reconstruct the smaller of the two 1,500-year-old Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban before the U.S.-led invasion of...

US, Allies Aim Military and Financial Might Against Gadhafi

Feb 28, 2011 - 5:34 PM |AOL News

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The Obama administration and international allies today stepped up pressure on Moammar Gadhafi to quit Libya, freezing billions of dollars of the strongman's assets and threatening to impose a no-fly...

WikiLeaks Bahrain: Group Says It Will Release 100 Revelations on the Kingdom Tonight

Feb 18, 2011 - 4:51 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

Get ready for the flood. WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower group that has released hundreds of thousands of pages of classified government information over the past few months, announced on its Twitter...

Funeral Processions Mix With Violence in the Arab World

Feb 18, 2011 - 1:44 PM |AOL News

Hassan Ammar, AP

Violence mixed with funeral processions and anti-government demonstrations today, with more deaths reported in Bahrain, Libya and Yemen. Tens of thousands of defiant demonstrators swarmed main...