Most Turkish Alevis are likely to stay pro-secularist

Members of Turkey's unorthodox Alevi community played a significant role in the recent secularist...

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Western NGOs to face tougher conditions in Pakistan

Medecins Sans Frontieres announced on October 4 that the central government had barred them from...

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Islamist movements across the Middle East are facing a wave of opposition from their liberal and...

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Tunisia's main opposition coalition yesterday called for mass demonstrations next week. The...

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For most of its post-independence existence, and for the last three decades under President Paul...

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Israel yesterday announced the freezing of building supplies to Gaza, saying it had discovered a...

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Environmental leader Marina Silva joined the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) on a "transitory"...

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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas movement, died on...

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On October 8, the Supreme Court annulled the results of the first round of voting in presidential...

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A car bomb killed at least three police officers in southern Sinai yesterday, a day after...

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