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UN announces 'alarming rise' in Rohingya refugee deaths
Jan 18, 2023 05:50The UN refugee agency says hundreds of members of Myanmar's heavily-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority have died or gone missing while trying to flee dire humanitarian situations in either the country or neighboring Bangladesh.
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Muslim advocacy groups in US sound alarm over Islamophobic Congressman Mark Green
Jan 15, 2023 05:06Muslim advocacy groups in the United States have sounded the alarm over the appointment of Islamophobic Congressman Mark Green to the chair of the US House's Homeland Security Committee over his history of anti-Muslim rhetoric.
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Myanmar airstrikes leave five people killed
Jan 14, 2023 11:06Five people have been killed in airstrikes on two villages inhabited by ethnic Karens in Mutraw district in Myanmar's Karen State.
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Iranian protesters slam Charlie Hebdo’s insulting cartoons
Jan 13, 2023 11:19Thousands of Iranian people across the country took to the streets on Friday to condemn a French magazine’s insult to Muslim sanctities and Iran’s religious and national values.
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Myanmar jails 112 Rohingya, including children, for attempting to flee crackdown on Muslims
Jan 10, 2023 12:27Myanmar authorities have sentenced 112 minority Rohingya Muslims, including a dozen children, to prison terms for attempting to travel to Malaysia “without legal documents”, state media reported.
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Iran blasts Charlie Hebdo for incitement to violence through defamatory cartoons
Jan 09, 2023 09:15Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has censured the French magazine Charlie Hebdo’s incendiary cartoons targeting the Islamic Republic’s top religious and political authority, saying the move was a clear example of hate-mongering, an insult to the sacred values and sanctities of other nations, and incitement to violence.
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French magazine’s insult attests to West’s fury over failure of Iran riot project: Parliament speaker
Jan 08, 2023 06:00Iran's Parliament speaker says the sacrilegious move by a French publication against the Islamic Republic’s top religious authority is the result of the West's desperation and indicates the Western fury at the failure of the recent foreign-backed riots in the country.
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Myanmar junta honors anti-Muslim monk dubbed ‘face of Buddhist terror’
Jan 05, 2023 11:41The military junta in Myanmar has honored an ultranationalist anti-Muslim Buddhist monk dubbed the 'Face of Buddhist terror" with a prestigious national award, and also announced the decision to free thousands of prisoners under amnesty.
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Iran's foreign minister censures Charlie Hebdo over ‘insulting’ act, warns of ‘decisive’ response
Jan 04, 2023 12:55Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has strongly condemned the “insulting” act by the controversial French magazine Charlie Hebdo in publishing caricatures of the country's top religious authority, warning of a “decisive” response.
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Iran’s parliament speaker: Lt. Gen. Soleimani brought power, dignity to Muslim world
Jan 04, 2023 09:06The speaker of Iran’s parliament has lauded the personality and endeavors of top Iranian anti-terror Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in a US drone strike near Baghdad airport three years ago, stating that he brought self-reliance and dignity to the Muslim world.