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- Sunnis fleeing homes
- Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest as Holocaust victims
- Report: Toxic homebrew kills 16 in India
- Pakistan: Iranians crossed border, killed 1 man
- Afghan family accused of torturing daughter-in-law
- Yemenis rally, demand president face trial
- Arab body calls for pullout of monitors in Syria
- Anglicans have new home in the U.S.
| Posted: 01 Jan 2012 04:10 PM PST BAGHDAD -- The question was disturbing: Why do you live here?Ahmed al-Azami, a Sunni Muslim, has owned a house in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Shaab since 1999. But when Shiite residents recently began questioning why he, a Sunni, was living amon ... |
| Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest as Holocaust victims Posted: 01 Jan 2012 04:11 PM PST JERUSALEM -- Images of ultra-Orthodox Jews dressing up as Nazi concentration camp inmates during a protest drew widespread condemnation Sunday and added a new twist to a simmering battle over growing extremism inside Israel's insular ultra-Orthodox ... |
| Report: Toxic homebrew kills 16 in India Posted: 01 Jan 2012 10:46 PM PST NEW DELHI (AP) -- An official says at least 16 people have died after drinking a toxic home-brewed liquor over the weekend in southern India.Gaurav Uppal, a top district administrator, says another 24 poor villagers are being treated in hospitals in ... |
| Pakistan: Iranians crossed border, killed 1 man Posted: 01 Jan 2012 10:46 PM PST QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- Iranian security personnel crossed into southwest Pakistan on Sunday, shot to death one man and wounded another in an incident that could cause tension between the two countries, a Pakistani border official said.Iranian force ... |
| Afghan family accused of torturing daughter-in-law Posted: 01 Jan 2012 10:46 PM PST KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- President Hamid Karzai says police will arrest members of a family accused of torturing and illegally detaining their son's teenage wife for the past six months while trying to force her into a life of crime.After meeting s ... |
| Yemenis rally, demand president face trial Posted: 01 Jan 2012 10:43 PM PST SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemen's opposition on Sunday accused outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh of trying to torpedo a power transfer deal by sparking a new crisis, as troops loyal to him clashed with opposition forces, killing three.The violence was ... |
| Arab body calls for pullout of monitors in Syria Posted: 01 Jan 2012 10:43 PM PST CAIRO (AP) -- A pan-Arab body called Sunday for the immediate withdrawal of the Arab League monitors in Syria because President Bashar Assad's regime has kept up killings of government opponents even in the presence of the observers.The 88-member Ara ... |
| Anglicans have new home in the U.S. Posted: 01 Jan 2012 04:05 PM PST VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI named a married former Episcopal bishop Sunday to head the first U.S. organizational structure for disaffected Anglicans and Episcopalians who want to join the Roman Catholic Church.The Rev. Jeffrey Neil Steenson, a ... |
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