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With 9/11 in Mind, American Muslims Celebrate Eid al-Fitr
New Haven, Connecticut and New York - As the early morning sun steamed through glass skylights, hundreds of Muslim men, women, and children gathered at a cavernous indoor track …
Guide to the Most Crucial Bank Meeting You Never Heard Of
Washington - International bank regulators from around the globe will meet in the Swiss town of Basel on Sunday to finalize an important agreement that most Americans have never …
Dhaka: Fastest Growing Megacity in the World
Dhaka, Bangladesh — The future is here, and it smells like burning trash. As the evening call to prayer echoes across Dhaka's teeming slums, a bluish haze rises in …
BP Report on Oil Spill Disaster Met with Skepticism
New York - The report released Wednesday by energy giant BP of its internal investigation into the catastrophic explosion in April of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and the …
Islamophobia Back With a Vengeance, Nine Years Later
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The Election Needs You, Broken Heart and All
“OK, so your heart's broken,” as the old song goes. So's mine. But we have to get over it — now — and start taking action for the November …
One More Reason to Boycott Nike: Exploiting Mountaintop Removal and Dead Coal Miners
Nike is again embroiled in a controversy it may not easily shake, and this time around it has nothing to do with sweatshop labor practices. An ad spot for …
Obama: Bad Economy Helped Raise Anger at Muslims, Islam
Washington - President Barack Obama said Friday that he thought the nation’s economic crisis had claimed a role in hardening many Americans' suspicions about Islam. As the nation marks …
Pakistan Floodwaters Subside as a Tide of Allegation Rises
Muzaffargarh, Pakistan - One of the most flood-ravaged districts of Pakistan would not be under water today if flood management recommendations had not been overruled at the last moment …
Why Peaceniks Should Care About the Afghanistan Study Group Report
There is a tradition among some peace activists of striking a pose of annoyed indifference to the question of how to get out of an unpopular war. "There are …