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Thai marines kill 16 militants after attack on military base
Wednesday 13 February 2013
At least 16 Muslim rebels have been killed after they launched a pre-dawn assault on a military base in the south of Thailand in the deadliest incident in an insurgency that has raged for almost a decade.
Chechnya's Kadyrov calls for crackdown on faith healers
Monday 11 February 2013
Sorcerers, psychics, and faith healers may be on the way out in Chechnya, where the leader of the overwhelmingly Muslim region in Russia’s Caucasus has ordered a crackdown on the practices.
Nine health workers shot dead in Nigeria
Friday 08 February 2013
Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead nine health workers who were administering polio vaccinations in two separate attacks in Nigeria’s main northern city of Kano yesterday.
Don't write off Tunisia's revolution just yet
Friday 08 February 2013
They should keep calm and plod on. The public wants stability not chaos
Iran's Srebrenica: How Ayatollah Khomeini sanctioned the deaths of 20,000 'enemies of the state'
Thursday 07 February 2013
A tribunal at The Hague publishes a report illustrating the regime's crimes against humanity
China, India or Egypt: who will win the 21st century?
Thursday 07 February 2013
Veterans of the Drip know we do like a bit of Thomas Friedman, the moustachio'ed sergeant major of the New York Times' op-ed pages. This week, on his annual pilgrimage to India, he reflects on three countries with a very different relationship between state and society.
Mali's religious scholars cunningly save ancient Islamic manuscripts from Salafist fighters in Timbuktu
Wednesday 06 February 2013
The home of Dramane Maulvi Haidara is down a dusty alleyway of pot-holes with an open drain alongside. There, behind a heavy wooden door studded with metal in a dark, windowless room, lay a rich treasure trove that has been guarded with utmost care from a determined enemy.
‘No one who looks like my uncle has been killed here. I still think I’ll find him’: A student follows the trail from Bamako to Timbuktu
Monday 04 February 2013
Kim Sengupta follows a student’s hunt for his loved one from Bamako to Timbuktu
Cleric's release after murder case sparks anger
Monday 04 February 2013
Online activists in Saudi Arabia are calling for harsher punishments for child abuse following reports that a prominent cleric received a light sentence after confessing to beating his five-year-old daughter to death.
Cheers for François Hollande, hero of Mali
Sunday 03 February 2013
... but it's not yet mission accomplished for the French President
'Religion is redundant and irrelevant': Richard Dawkins takes on ex-Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams in Cambridge debate
Friday 01 February 2013
Prominent atheist professor Richard Dawkins described religion as “redundant and irrelevant” as he took on the former Archbishop of Canterbury in a debate.
TV Review: Borgen, What Is Lost Inwardly Must Be Gained Outwardly
Tuesday 29 January 2013
Tom Leece is Film and TV editor at Fourth & Main
Recaptured by moonlight, the fabled desert city where Islamists burned books in a bitter farewell
Monday 28 January 2013
The recapture of Timbuktu was done by moonlight. More than 250 French troops parachuted down to the northern entrance of the fabled desert city, while an armoured column sealed the southern exit.
Ground forces backed by French paratroopers in Mali prepare to capture Timbuktu after taking control of airports and roads
Monday 28 January 2013
Fall of Timbuktu will mark the end of an initial, lightning advance by French and Malian forces into territory overrun by Islamists
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Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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