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NEW DELHI (AP) — Unidentified assailants fatally stabbed two men in Bangladesh's capital Monday night, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, police said. It was the latest in a series of attacks targeting atheists, moderates and foreigners. Police said
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GRAND-BASSAM, Ivory Coast (AP) — Survivors of the first attack by Islamic extremists in Ivory Coast described scenes of confusion and fear as the jihadists gunned down defenseless civilians at a beachfront resort area. The attack left 16 dead. Those who make a living off tourism believed the attack on Sunday
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PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande and other dignitaries held a special ceremony Sunday to honor all those killed in Islamic extremist violence around Paris in 2015 — a year when the European way of life was targeted time and again with deadly consequences. At least one attacker is at large,
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Written by Brian Pellot (RNS) A multifaith group of religious freedom advocates this week called on President Obama and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to declare "that the Islamic State's actions against religious and ethnic minority populations in the Middle East is genocide."
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Written by Trevor Grundy CANTERBURY, England (RNS) British Prime Minister David Cameron called the fight against Islamic extremists "the struggle of our generation" and warned that some young Muslims are drawn to fundamentalists in the same way young Germans were attracted to Hitler and Nazism in the 1930s.
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