August 4, 2016 French Muslim dress: Women stir tempest in a swimming pool A women's association in the city of Marseille, which has a large Muslim population, has triggered irate reactions in secular France with its plans to rent a swimming park for a day only for women, and saying they must be covered up chest to knees.
August 4, 2016 The Latest: Austrian leader suggests Turkey EU bid 'reset' The Latest on the aftermath of the failed coup attempt in Turkey (all times local): 1:30 p.m.
August 4, 2016 IS group announces new Boko Haram leader in Nigeria Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists have a new leader who is threatening to bomb churches and kill Christians while ending attacks on mosques and markets used by ordinary Muslims, according to an interview published Wednesday by the Islamic State group.
August 4, 2016 Turkish Cypriots protest Turkey's 'religious' influence Hundreds of Turkish Cypriots are protesting against what they say is Turkey's attempt to mold their secular culture into one that's more in tune with Islamic norms.
August 3, 2016 Sweden won't return people linked to failed Turkey coup Sweden has decided not to send back failed asylum-seekers from Turkey with "reliable connections" to the attempted coup in that country.
August 3, 2016 ISIS announces new Boko Haram leader Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists have a new leader who promises to end attacks on mosques and markets used by Muslims, according to an interview published Wednesday by the Islamic State group.
August 3, 2016 Pope: at Auschwitz I prayed for all war and violence victims Pope Francis says while visiting the former Auschwitz and Birkenau Nazi death camps in Poland he reflected on today's cruelties in "this world sick with cruelty, violence and suffering." In recounting his visit to Poland last week, he told pilgrims at the Vatican Wednesday that while seeing the camps, he thought that even though today's cruelties aren't as concentrated as those practiced at the Nazi facilities, they're similar in sense of suffering.
August 3, 2016 Most prominent cases in China by lawyers now in custody Trials started this week of Chinese lawyers and legal rights activists who were detained in July last year and charged with subversion for their attempts to bring attention to abuses and demand government accountability.
August 2, 2016 Pope Francis says it's 'terrible' that children are taught they can choose gender Pope Francis has lamented that children are being taught at school that gender can be a choice, adding that his predecessor, Benedict XVI has labeled current times "the epoch of sin against God the Creator."
