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‘Every woman, Muslim or non-Muslim, would have to cover everything apart from her face and hands in public.’

A crackdown by the Pakistani government to prevent a national demonstration collapsed.

Putative moral majority has been downsized.

Aggressive, self-indulgent, noisy – and as for ‘family values’…

Sara Azmeh Rasmussen burned her hijab to protest the oppression of women in Islam. [French]

Brian Marshall has allegedly been selling bottled water as a cure for the virus since late last year.

Man who shot up a church told police he was a nice fellow ‘but hated gays, liberals and Democrats.’

Journalists flourished in the post-Taliban years but now are increasingly pressured by fundamentalists.

Three established journalists have left Kandahar after receiving threats from the Taliban.

‘Kambakhsh has committed no crime. Now it is up to President Karzai to act on principle and free him.’

Says his parents would not have approved.

Mo says there must be an international law against defamation of religion.

There is no rule of law, even at the Supreme Court in Kabul, so what chance do people in the provinces have?

‘Saddened by the fact that even Catholics thought they had to attack me with open hostility.’

Kretschmer was a woman-hater who killed to take revenge on the whole female sex, a neighbour said.

Waters could rise by over a metre across the world with huge impacts for hundreds of millions of people.

New studies suggest that global warming could strike harder and sooner than expected.

With admirable clarity, this VSI shows us how wobbly, hazy, but unavoidable that line turns out to be.

Rachel Maddow’s humor is, actually, pretty serious stuff.

Afghanistan’s highest court ruled against Kambaksh without even hearing his defence.