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November 26, 2016

Reporter becomes Canada's first hijab-clad news anchor

A Toronto television journalist is believed to be the country's first anchor to don a Muslim head scarf at one of the city's major news broadcasters.

November 25, 2016

Reporter becomes Canada's first hijab-clad news anchor

A Toronto television journalist is believed to be Canada's first anchor to don a Muslim head scarf at one of the city's major news broadcasters.

November 25, 2016

Iraq's Najaf cemetery swells as fight against IS escalates

Wailing and pounding their chests in grief, a dozen women clad in mourning black gathered around a tomb in the massive cemetery in Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf.

November 25, 2016

French police hunt masked attacker who fatally stabbed woman

Some 100 police officers are searching for a gunman suspected of stabbing an elderly woman to death in a retirement home for Catholic missionaries in southern France.

November 25, 2016

Norwegian church denounces Luther's anti-Jewish writings

Norway's state Lutheran Church has condemned the anti-Jewish legacy of Martin Luther, the 16th century German theologian who started the Protestant Reformation.

November 25, 2016

Thousands in Bangladesh protest deaths of Myanmar's Rohingya

Thousands of Bangladeshis have protested the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, taking to the streets of the capital in front of a national mosque.

November 25, 2016

Hate graffiti, knife found at Israeli reform synagogue

Israeli police are investigating hate graffiti that was sprawled on the walls of a reform synagogue in the city of Raanana and death threats addressed to some reform leaders.

November 25, 2016

Egypt reduces sentence for poet accused of religion contempt

An Egyptian appeals court has reduced the sentence against a poet accused of contempt of Islam to a six-month suspended prison term.

November 25, 2016

Membership in Catholic, Muslim communities surges in Norway

Norway's official statistics agency says the country's Roman Catholic and Muslim communities have added tens of thousands of members in recent years while the state Lutheran Church is declining.

November 24, 2016

In fight for Mosul, an effort to bridge divide with Sunnis

The Mosul district of Gogjali was captured from the Islamic State group weeks ago.