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A new Speaker in Iran's parliament

What does the election of a new Speaker mean for the reform movement?

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Putin's visit to the Vatican

The Russian President Putin did not invite the Pope to Moscow to visit the Patriarch

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Greek protest at identity card change

Thousands protested against the removal of religious affiliation from Greek ID cards

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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Baraks saves shaky coalition

Barak persuades the ultra orthodox party Shas to not pull out of the coalition

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Israel protests as 10 Jews are convicted of spying in Iran

The 10 Jews received sentences between four and 13 years

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Military standoff in Malaysia

A Malaysian hostage crisis is over, but were the gunmen really members of an Islamic cult?

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Norman Finkelstein's The Holocaust Industry

An emotive debate within the Jewish community has been sparked by the controversial book

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Can Jerusalem ever find peace?

As a summit starts at Camp David, can the city ever be subject to political compromise?

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Islamic reaction to the failed Middle East summit

After the failure of the talks, why is the Islamic world cheering?

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Senator Joseph Lieberman

The Orthodox Jew who would walk to the White House on the Sabbath, really another milestone for America?; Rabbi whose provocative sermon managed to upset Jew and Arab alike; the trouble with bats as country churches struggle with mounting cleaning bills

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Canonisation of Tsar Nicholas II

The Russian Orthodox Church's controversial decision to canonise Russia's last Tsar

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Islamist threat to Central Asia governments

Central Asian republics are waging a fierce battle against militant Islamists.

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Millennium World Peace Summit

What was achieved at the summit of religious and spiritual leaders in New York?

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US list of countries that repress religious freedom

China tops the list of countries which America says repress religious freedom

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Italian cardinal's anti-Islamic remarks

Giacomo Biffi attracted criticism after he called Islamic culture "fundamentalist".

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Should one conjoined twin be sacrificed to save the other?

A British court rules against the wishes of children's devout Catholic parents

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Clashes in Jerusalem

Violence returns to Jerusalem's most contested holy site

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Reaction to a week of bloodshed in Israel

The anger and frustration of Muslims and Jews across the world to the bloodshed in Israel

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Tension in the Holy Land spills over into Europe

As synagogues are razed in France, Jews feel that public opinion has turned against them

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Queen Elizabeth II visits the Vatican

The Supreme Governor of the Church of England Queen, Elizabeth II, visits the Pope

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Who are the Mungiki in Kenya?

Police in Kenya have arrested hundreds of people belonging to the illegal Mungiki sect

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Shahar Levy killed by a Jerusalem car bomb

The impact of the killing of the daughter of a prominent Israeli politician.

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Islamic Conference summit

55 countries attend the gathering which will discuss the crisis in the Middle East

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Syria criticised by Lebanon's Maronite Patriarch

Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir once again demands the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon

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Hamas' anti-Israel protests during Ramadan

Are they limiting the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's room for manoeuvre?

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Dutch legalisation of euthanasia

The Roman Catholic Church condemns the Dutch government's decision

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Release of Anwar Haddam from US jail

The former Algerian lawmaker talks about his release after four years

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Turkish courts attempt to shut down Islamic party

Is the Islamic-leaning party Virtue in Turkey such a threat to the secular state?

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The Taliban remains defiant in the face of sanctions

The UN have given the Taliban 30 days to shut down Islamist training camps

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