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Stop the Attacks on the Copts in Upper Egypt
Iran takes Nobel peace prize winners medal
Iran summoned Norway's ambassador on Friday over accusations made by Oslo that Iranian authorities had confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi in 2003.
Israel aims to wipe out Palestinians
In a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday night, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused Israel of aiming to "exterminate" the Palestinians.
Christian girl, 16, gets 50 lashes in Sudan
A 16-year-old Sudanese girl was lashed 50 times after a judge ruled her knee-length skirt was indecent, her family said today.
Taliban trying to destroy Buddhist art from the Gandhara period
Archaeologists and experts sound the alarm. The ancient Indo-Hellenistic heritage of the country could go the way of the Bamiyan Buddhas, in neighbouring Afghanistan. Digging and research have stopped; tourists are nowhere to be seen because of attacks and violence.
CIA goes hiring in heart of Arab America
At Tuhama's Lebanese deli in Dearborn, and at bakeries and barbershops throughout town, it's no secret the CIA is looking for a few good spies.
Death toll from Saudi floods rises to 83
More bodies have been recovered in the western Saudi city of Jeddah, gateway for Muslim pilgrims headed to Mecca, pushing the death toll from Wednesday's flash flood to 83, reports said on Friday.
New Holocaust Museum Focuses on Jewish Youth Uprising
A new museum, named for the commander of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Mordechai Anilewicz, has been established to memorialize the youths who rebelled against the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Majority of IAEA board votes to censure Iran's nuclear
The UN nuclear agency's board censured Iran on Friday, with 25 nations backing a resolution that demands Teheran immediately mothball its newly revealed nuclear facility and heed UN Security Council resolutions calling on it to stop uranium enrichment.
Free Speech Silenced at Columbia and Princeton
Nonie Darwish, the executive director of Former Muslims United and author of Cruel And Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law, was scheduled to speak at Columbia and Princeton Universities last week, but both events were canceled under pressure from Muslim groups on campus.