MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) - A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison - one of them to a life term - in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian violence that was overwhelmingly directed against minority Muslims but has produced no ... [Full Article]
By Paul Eckert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged the president of Myanmar on Monday to halt violence against a Muslim minority but praised economic and political reforms in the formerly pariah nation that is emerging as a U.S. ally ... [Full Article]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - For some, it was a barbaric way to treat animals. For others, it was great business. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) - An overcrowded boat capsized while trying to escape a cyclone bearing down on Myanmar, tossing dozens of Rohingya Muslims into the sea. Eight bodies were found and more than 50 people were missing and feared dead, the United Na... [Full Article]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Sgt. 1st Class Naida Hosan is not a Muslim - she's a Catholic. But her name sounded Islamic to fellow U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and they would taunt her, calling her "Sgt. Hussein" and asking what God she prayed to. (... [Full Article]
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli police detained the top Muslim cleric in the Holy Land Wednesday in a rare crackdown on a leading religious figure, questioning him for several hours before releasing him without charge. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli police detained the top Muslim cleric in the Holy Land Wednesday in a rare crackdown on a leading religious figure, questioning him for several hours before releasing him without charge. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli police detained on Wednesday the top Muslim cleric in the Holy Land following disturbances at a disputed holy site in Jerusalem, in a rare crackdown on a leading religious figure that drew fierce condemnations from Palestinia... [Full Article]
By Jared Ferrie WIN KITE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Three Muslim men peered over a bamboo fence built recently to fortify their village in central Myanmar. They gazed across dry rice paddies towards a nearby Buddhist community, looking for rising dust, a s... [Full Article]
OKKAN, Myanmar (AP) - They slept terrified in the fields, watching their homes burn through the night. And when they returned on Wednesday, nothing was left but smoldering ash and debris. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]