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Iran bars candidates for presidential election
ReutersDUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities barred two potentially powerful and disruptive candidates from running in next month's presidential election on Tuesday, ensuring a contest largely among hardliners loyal to the clerical supreme leader. Akbar Hashemi...Tags: Iran's Nuclear Program, Religion and Belief, Iran, Elections, Ruhollah Khomeini
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Iran's Ahmadinejad to challenge ally's ban from election
ReutersBy Yeganeh Torbati DUBAI, May 22 (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday he would ask Iran's supreme leader to reverse a ban preventing his aide from running in next month's presidential poll, a test of stability after the violent...Tags: Yasmin (drug), Religion and Belief, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Elections
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Syria opposition calls for reinforcements in embattled Qusair
ReutersBEIRUT, May 22 (Reuters) - Syria's leading opposition group called on Wednesday for rebels across the country to send reinforcements to the strategic border town Qusair, where heavy fighting has drawn in fighters from Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Religion and Belief, Religious Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lebanon
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Officials say more evidence being gathered as Benghazi suspects remain under surveillance
AP Intelligence WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Five men are under round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The White House believes there is enough proof for a military force to...Tags: Barack Obama, Terrorism, Rentals, Tunisia, FBI
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Iran denies link to group arrested for spying in Saudi Arabia
ReutersDUBAI, May 22 (Reuters) - Iran denied on Wednesday any link to members of a spying ring detained by its Sunni Muslim regional rival Saudi Arabia, according to Iranian media. Saudi state media reported on Tuesday that officials had detained 10 people...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Religion and Belief, Iran, Human Rights, Police Arrests
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Iran's rulers risk alienating voters by candidate bans
ReutersDUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's clerical rulers may have sought to remove any challenge to their grip by barring two vivid contenders from next month's presidential election, but they risk alienating voters already disillusioned by the violent aftermath of the...Tags: Iran's Nuclear Program, Religion and Belief, Iran, Iran Presidential Election (2009), Elections
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WRAPUP 1-Syria rebels call for reinforcements as war spreads abroad
Reuters* Rebels call for reinforcements in Qusair * Syria conflict spreading beyond its borders * Iranian-backed Hezbollah prominent in fighting By Erika Solomon BEIRUT, May 22 (Reuters) - Rebels fighting for control of the Syrian town of Qusair called for...Tags: Weaponry, Israel, Barack Obama, National Government, U.S. House of Representatives
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Sectarian violence over Syria war rages in Lebanon's Tripoli
ReutersTRIPOLI, Lebanon, May 22 (Reuters) - Lebanese supporters of rival factions in Syria's civil war battled overnight in the city of Tripoli in the worst such bout of spillover violence since the conflict started two years ago. One person was killed and many...Tags: National Government, Wars and Interventions, Religion and Belief, Armed Forces, Religious Conflicts
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FEATURE-Turkey presents Prophet's sayings for the 21st Century
ReutersBy Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor ANKARA, May 22 (Reuters) - Scholars around the Muslim world were alarmed five years ago by news reports that Turkey planned a new, possibly heretical compilation of the Prophet Mohammad's sayings that might scrap those it...Tags: Feminism, Christianity, Jihad, Punishment, Religion and Belief
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Iraqi spokesman: premier orders shake-up among military commanders in wake of deadly attacks
Associated PressBAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister has ordered a shake-up of his military command after a weeklong spike of militant attacks that has killed nearly 300 people, by far the highest toll since the U.S. withdrew its forces in late 2011, an official...Tags: Baghdad (Iraq), Religion and Belief, Government, Iraq, Politics
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Militants release seven Egyptians kidnapped in Sinai
ReutersCAIRO/ISMAILIA (Reuters) - Seven Egyptian security men kidnapped by Islamist militants in Sinai last week were freed on Wednesday and President Mohamed Mursi vowed to pursue a crackdown on lawlessness in the desert peninsula. The abduction underlined the...Tags: Israel, Jihad, Mohamed Morsi, Religion and Belief, Armed Forces
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Sandburg Muslim students combat stereotypes
When Muslim students at Sandburg High School were brainstorming ways last year to combat negative thinking about Islam, they came up with the idea of an informal group that would nourish their culture and religion as well as combat stereotypes. Now...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Jihad, Religion and Belief, Earth Day, Values
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