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BBC News - Armenia clashes over Russian soldier - 0 views

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  • At least 12 people have been wounded in clashes in Armenia between police and protesters demanding the handover of a Russian soldier accused of killing six members of a local famil
  • The violence erupted when thousands of protesters in Gyumri tried to march on the Russian consulate in Armenia's second-largest city
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    Protests demanding that a russian soldier, who killed 6 members of a local family, be handed over.
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Pope on Paris: 'You cannot insult the faith of others' - 0 views

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  • Pope Francis on Thursday defended freedom of speech but said there are limits and that "you can't make a toy out of the religions of others."
  • . He defended freedom of expression as not only a fundamental human right but a duty to speak one's mind for the sake of the common good "without offending."
  • "It's normal, you cannot provoke," the pope said. "You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit. Every religion has its dignity."
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  • "There are so many people who speak badly about religions or other religions, who make fun of them, who make a game out of the religions of others," he said. "They are provocateurs."
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    Pope speaks on attacks. He says that people should not insult others' faith
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French comic faces 7 years in prison for Facebook post - CNN Video - 0 views

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    French comic faces 7 years in prison after charges of supporting terrorism. 
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Belgian operation thwarted 'major terrorist attacks' - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • (CNN)A terror cell on the brink of carrying out an attack was the target of a raid Thursday that left two suspects dead, Belgian authorities said.
  • Some members of the cell had traveled to Syria and met with ISIS, which plotted the attacks as retaliation for U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, the Belgian source said.
  • The operation, which authorities said was ongoing, added fresh fuel to a fear that's been simmering for months as thousands of Europeans went off to join ISIS fighters in Syria.Would they bring the war back with them when they returned home?
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  • The Belgian counterterrorism official said indications of ISIS ordering attacks in Europe mark an apparent significant shift by the terrorist group. Before the air campaign against it, the official said, there was little indication ISIS leaders were directly plotting attacks in the West. Instead, the group prioritized its project to create an Islamic caliphate.
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    Planned attack is stopped before it happened as Belgian authorities raid a house. Europe and the rest of the world could be expecting more terrorist attacks.
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BBC News - Have pictures of Muhammad always been forbidden? - 0 views

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  • Most Muslims say that pictorial depictions of the founder of Islam are forbidden - but has that always been the case in all of the Muslim world?
  • For most Muslims it's an absolute prohibition - Muhammad, or any of the other prophets of Islam, should not be pictured in any way. Pictures - as well as statues - are thought to encourage the worship of idols.
  • Muslims point to a verse in the Koran which features Abraham, whom they regard as a prophet:
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  • "[Abraham] said to his father and his people: 'What are these images to whose worship you cleave?' They said: 'We found our fathers worshipping them.' He said: 'Certainly you have been, you and your fathers, in manifest error.'"
  • Many of the images of Muhammad which date from the 1300s were intended only to be viewed privately, to avoid idolatry, says Christiane Gruber, associate professor of Islamic Art at Michigan University. "In some ways they were luxury items, perhaps in libraries for the elite."
  • Such items included miniatures which showed characters from Islam.
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    An article that discusses whether pictures of Mohammed have always been forbidden.
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BBC News - Jason Rezaian: Iran to try Washington Post reporter - 0 views

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  • A Washington Post journalist detained for almost six months in Iran is to stand trial on unspecified charges.
  • Mr Rezaian, who holds dual US-Iranian citizenship, was arrested with his wife and two associates in July.
  • In December, Mr Rezaian was brought before a judge in the Iranian capital to hear charges officially levelled against him and was denied a request for bail.
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  • The US state department has repeatedly raised the subject of Mr Rezaian's detention during negotiations with Iranian officials over the country's nuclear programme.
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    A dual US-Iranian citizen and reporter for the Washington Post was arrested 6 months ago in Iran is facing trial
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BBC News - France to protect all religions, vows Francois Hollande - 0 views

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  • French President Francois Hollande has vowed that his country will protect all religions, saying that Muslims are the main victims of fanaticism.
  • Speaking at the Arab World Institute, he said Islam was compatible with democracy and thanked Arabs for their solidarity over terrorism in Paris.
  • There are also funerals taking place for Charlie Hebdo columnist Elsa Cayat and Franck Brinsolaro, a policeman assigned to guard Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier.
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  • Mr Hollande said that radical Islam had fed off contradictions, poverty, inequality and conflict, and that "it is Muslims who are the first victims of fanaticism, fundamentalism and intolerance".
  • But some Muslims were angered by the edition and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu condemned it on Thursday as an "open provocation".
  • "Freedom of the press does not mean freedom to insult," said Mr Davutoglu, who on Sunday attended a Paris march in memory of the victims of last week's attacks.
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    French President vowed to protect all religions in France.
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Attack Prompts Debate on the Roots of Muslim Objection to Image-Making - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Many Muslims upset by the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical newspaper, argue that the issue is not about free speech but about the insult to a religious figure revered by roughly a quarter of the world’s population.
  • Less clear are the precise origins of the Muslim objection to visual depictions — insulting or otherwise — of the prophet and holy persons of any faith.
  • That objection, which Islamist militants have cited in justifying their deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo’s offices in Paris last week, has some roots in the Quran, which discourages image-making as a form of idol worship that demeans God.
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  • But Islamic scholars and legal experts say that the Quran does not explicitly prohibit image-making, and while the act is considered sinful in some branches of Islam, in others it is not — and certainly not one deserving of death.
  • The objection to images of the prophet — positive or negative — as well as all depictions of any being with a soul, animal or human, has evolved over time and has been interpreted in diverse ways.
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    Debate over where roots of muslim objection to image making came from. 
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CNN speaks to French woman who wants to join ISIS - CNN Video - 0 views

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    Woman is planning to leave france and move to syria to join ISIS
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Disputed Claims Over Qaeda Role in Paris Attacks - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • The younger of the two brothers who killed 12 people in Paris last week most likely used his older brother’s passport in 2011 to travel to Yemen, where he received training and $20,000 from Al Qaeda’s affiliate there, presumably to finance attacks when he returned home to France.
  • American counterterrorism officials said on Wednesday they now believe that Chérif Kouachi, the younger brother, was the likely aggressor in the attacks, not Saïd Kouachi, as they first thought
  • If the claim of direct responsibility holds up, it would make the attacks in France the deadliest planned and financed by Al Qaeda on Western soil since the transit bombings in London in 2005 that killed 52 people
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  • “I suspect that Chérif Kouachi did engage AQAP members in Yemen, but that he was not fully brought into the organization,
  • The statement by the Qaeda branch in Yemen called the Kouachi brothers, who were shot to death by police on Friday, “two heroes of Islam.” But it referred to the actions of Amedy Coulibaly, who attacked a police officer the day of the assault on Charlie Hebdo and was shot to death by police after holding hostages in a kosher supermarket, as a coincidence and did not take responsibility for them.
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    People are disputing over claims that Al Qaeda was behind attacks in france
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Why are terrorists often brothers? - CNN Video - 0 views

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  • Why are terrorists often brothers?
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    Why are terrorists often brothers?
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Millions gather against terrorism - CNN Video - 0 views

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  • World leaders joined more than 2 million people at a "unity rally" in defiance of a terrorism rampage that claimed 17 lives in France.
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    Millions gather at "unity rally" in defiance of terrorism
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Maintenance worker describes encounter with terrorists - CNN Video - 0 views

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  • The first person shot by the Paris terrorists was a maintenance worker. It was his first day at the Charlie Hebdo building. His coworker shares their story.
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    Survivor of attack shares story
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Muslims' mixed response to new Mohammed cover - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • (CNN)It is a message of defiance, but also forgiveness -- and many Muslims responded with similarly mixed emotions.
  • It's not surprising that, in its first issue since the attack, Charlie Hebdo again put Mohammed on the cover.
  • But this time, instead of showing the prophet in an unflattering light, the magazine struck a far different tone -- and was received by some Muslims in a far different way.
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  • "My initial thought is that the cover is a near perfect response to the tragedy," said Hussein Rashid, a professor of Islamic thought at Hofstra University in New York.
  • On Twitter, some Muslims were skeptical that publishing an image that many consider offensive should be construed as an act of solidarity.
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    Many muslims have mixed responses about Mohammed Cover
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Turkey bans Charlie Hebdo cover, newspaper gets death threats - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • (CNN)A Turkish court Wednesday banned Web pages that show the new cover of Charlie Hebdo, the country''s semiofficial news agency Anadolu reported.
  • A newspaper that included images of the cover received death threats.
  • Turkey is home to 82 million people, 99.8% of whom are Muslim, according to the CIA World Factbook.
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  • Some hate was spewed on Twitter. One asked, "Isn't there another Ogun Samast who can bomb Cumhuriyet and kill the editor?"
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    Turkish Newspaper gets death threats after publishing Charlie Hebdo Cartoon
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Al Qaeda branch claims responsibility for Charlie Hebdo attack - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility Wednesday for last week's rampage that killed 12 people at France's Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper.
  • The attack was years in the making, AQAP claimed.
  • The claim surfaced as Charlie Hebdo's new issue -- featuring the Prophet Mohammed on the cover -- sold all 3 million copies, in a sign of defiance against the terrorists. More copies are coming, the magazine said.
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  • In a video, the group said the late Anwar al-Awlaki masterminded the attack. The U.S.-born Muslim scholar and cleric was spokesman for AQAP before his death in 2011.
  • "When the heroes were assigned, they accepted. They promised and fulfilled," al-Ansi said.
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    Al Qaeda claims that they were responsible for Charlie Hebdo attack
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Rome Journal: Armani Power and Light | Francis Levy - 1 views

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Italy Unification history politics

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  • Starting with 1870 and the capture of Rome, which was the final stage of the Risorgimento, Italian unification expressed itself culturally, political, and economically in the development of Rome as an important industrial center.
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