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Prominent Muslim lawyer gunned down in Myanmar
Jan 29, 2017 14:18A prominent Muslim lawyer and adviser to Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party has been assassinated along with a taxi driver outside the country’s busiest airport.
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Czech judge dismisses hijab ban complaint by Somali refugee woman
Jan 27, 2017 14:27A judge in the Czech Republic has rejected a complaint lodged by a young Muslim woman banned from wearing hijab to school.
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Trump supporter abuses, kicks Muslim woman at JFK airport
Jan 27, 2017 14:27A supporter of US President Donald Trump from Massachusetts has attacked a Muslim woman at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, kicking and shouting obscenities at her.
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Mashhad named cultural capital of Muslim world
Jan 24, 2017 07:20The holy city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran has been officially introduced as the “cultural capital of the Muslim world” for the Asia region for 2017.
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Lawmakers with Myanmar’s ruling party in Rakhine refuse to meet UN envoy
Jan 13, 2017 12:13Lawmakers from the ruling party in Myanmar’s beleaguered Rakhine State have refused to meet the United Nations special envoy, who is in the country to investigate a brutal and deadly military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.
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Bangladesh urges Myanmar to end violence against Rohingya Muslims
Jan 12, 2017 17:06Bangladesh has urged Myanmar to end months of persecution and violence that have forced thousands of Rohingya Muslims in the northwestern Rakhine State to flee across the border.
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OIC to discuss Rohingya crisis next week
Jan 11, 2017 13:42The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is to discuss the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar next week, a Malaysian official says.
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Two Rohingyas tortured to death in Myanmar: Local sources
Jan 08, 2017 11:37Myanmar’s military forces have tortured to death two Rohingya Muslim civilians and arrested scores of others in the country’s state of Rakhine.
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Austria mulls headscarf ban for public employees
Jan 06, 2017 14:17Austria's top diplomat says he is drawing up a controversial draft law to prohibit all public servants, including school teachers, from wearing headscarves while allowing Christian symbols.
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Rights groups slam Myanmar abuse cover-up
Jan 05, 2017 10:49Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other rights groups have accused Myanmar of trying to cover up abuses perpetrated by the country’s government forces against Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.