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Blasphemous acts have been more and more severely punished for the past 30 years in all Muslim countries, writes historian Dominique Avon. But he notes the unease of Sunni religious authorities after the attempted murder of the British writer.

Military liaison to Palestinians stresses, however, that expansion of permit quota -- to an eventual 20,000 -- contingent on ‘security stability’

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On August 22, BJP’s new minder for Bengal, Sunil Bansal, will meet MPs, MLAs, district presidents and the state executive body at the party’s Hastings office in Calcutta

Dmitry Birichevsky said that Russian grain was being delivered across the globe, with Ukrainian grain also being exported actively from Black Sea ports

While Operation Breaking Dawn has seen a slight revival of Israeli deterrence thanks to the return of the threat of preemptive action, deterrence was also degraded by letting Hamas off the hook.

Acceso Haiti, a social enterprise, works to invest in local food systems and build long-term economic opportunities for poor rural farming communities.

One in 10 Taiwanese remain untroubled by the prospect of a hot war across the Taiwan Strait, a recent survey found.

In 2014, the State Department said that “the test for any nation committed to [the Convention against Torture] and to the rule of law is not whether it ever makes mistakes, but whether and how it corrects them.” In U.S. v. Al-Nashiri, the government is failing that test miserably by openly embracing torture-tainted evidence in violation of federal law, international law, and

Texas is in the midst of one of the worst droughts since 2011. Here's how the two compare with a focus on the Lake Corpus Christi/Choke Canyon Watershed.