More than 100 schools across England were ordered to close buildings Thursday (Aug 31) because they were constructed using unsafe concrete, the Department for Education said in a statement Thursday afternoon, a few days before the start of…
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The French government's decision to ban schoolgirls wearing abayas -long, flowing dresses of Middle Eastern origin - has opened a fresh debate about the country's secular laws and the treatment of Muslim minorities
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Russian state-run news agencies on Wednesday (23) said that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group that led a mutiny against Russia's army in June, was on the list of passengers of a plane that crashed
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A British nurse will be sentenced on Monday (21) for murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to kill six others while they were in her care
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Sweden's intelligence agency heightened its terror alert level Thursday (17)  to four on a scale of five after angry reactions in the Muslim world to Quran burnings in Sweden made the country a "prioritized target"
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At least 35 people were killed in an explosion that created a huge fire ball at a fuel station in Russia's remote Caucasus republic of Dagestan, spurring condolences from President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday (15)
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Russia said Friday (4) it had thwarted Ukrainian sea and air drone attacks on a naval base in the Black Sea and the Crimean peninsula
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Two men set the Quran alight outside parliament in Stockholm on Monday (July 31), an AFP reporter saw, at a protest similar to previous ones that have sparked tensions between Sweden and Middle Eastern countries
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A Greek water-bombing plane crashed Tuesday (25) while battling a forest fire on the island of Evia as hundreds of firefighters struggled to beat back blazes still raging in Rhodes and Corfu amid a new wave of soaring temperatures
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Britain’s Conservative Party suffered crushing defeats in the race for what had previously been two safe seats in Parliament, but narrowly avoided losing a third contest, in election results Friday (21) that rendered an ominous verdict on…
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