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Amid Protests For Electoral Reform, Will Bangladesh Vote In February?
Ahead of elections in Bangladesh next year, an alliance of hardline Islamic parties is hitting the streets posing a fresh challenge to Bangladesh's fragile law and order situation.
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Bangladesh Grapples With Fraught Politics A Year After Ex-PM Hasina Fled
Bangladesh marks on Tuesday a year since long-serving former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the South Asian Islamic nation following student-led protests, but it is still grappling with instability.
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Change Comes To Islam's Birthplace, And The World Watches Warily
The world's 1.8 billion Muslims look to one country above all others.
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Saudi Arabia Trains First Women Air Traffic Controllers
Saudi Arabia will train women to work as air traffic controllers, state media reported, as the conservative Islamic kingdom seeks to create more jobs for women as part of a reform push to wean the economy off oil.
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Opinion: Saudi Arabia's Revolution Of Reform
Today, it's hard to be optimistic about anything in the Middle East. And yet having just visited Saudi Arabia, in which I led a small bipartisan group of former national security officials, I came away feeling hopeful about the kingdom's future. That may seem paradoxical when some portray the Saudis as both "arsonists and firefighters" in the strug...
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Saudi Arabia Reform Plans Flirt With Social Change
Reforms promised by a young Saudi prince are couched in references to the kingdom's Islamic tradition but include ideas likely to upset some conservatives, risking future ruptures over the direction of society.
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Executed Pakistani Hailed As Hero Of Islam For Supporting Blasphemy Law
Tens of thousands of supporters today cheered and threw flowers at the casket of a bodyguard executed for killing the governor of Pakistan's most populous province over his call to reform a strict blasphemy law.
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French Cabinet Backs Reforms To Enshrine Emergency Rules In Constitution
The French cabinet backed reform proposals today that could see the state of emergency called after last month's Paris attacks enshrined in the constitution.
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Russia to Propose Syrians Launch 18-Month Reform Process: Document
Russia wants the Syrian government and opposition to agree on launching a constitutional reform process of up to 18 months, followed by early presidential elections, a draft document obtained by Reuters showed on Tuesday.
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Saudi King Abdullah, A Gradual Modernizer
In a kingdom where ultra-conservative Muslim clerics long have held a lock on all aspects of society, King Abdullah's incremental reforms echoed mightily.
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Blog: Yes, Islam Needs to Reform
Stagnation has choked the flow of blood to its heart, writes Mohd Asim.
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Turkey lifts generations-old ban on Islamic head scarf
Turkey lifted a ban on women wearing the Islamic head scarf in state institutions on Tuesday, ending a generations-old restriction as part of a package of reforms the government says are meant to improve democracy.
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Amid Protests For Electoral Reform, Will Bangladesh Vote In February?
Ahead of elections in Bangladesh next year, an alliance of hardline Islamic parties is hitting the streets posing a fresh challenge to Bangladesh's fragile law and order situation.
-
Bangladesh Grapples With Fraught Politics A Year After Ex-PM Hasina Fled
Bangladesh marks on Tuesday a year since long-serving former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the South Asian Islamic nation following student-led protests, but it is still grappling with instability.
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Change Comes To Islam's Birthplace, And The World Watches Warily
The world's 1.8 billion Muslims look to one country above all others.
-
Saudi Arabia Trains First Women Air Traffic Controllers
Saudi Arabia will train women to work as air traffic controllers, state media reported, as the conservative Islamic kingdom seeks to create more jobs for women as part of a reform push to wean the economy off oil.
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Opinion: Saudi Arabia's Revolution Of Reform
Today, it's hard to be optimistic about anything in the Middle East. And yet having just visited Saudi Arabia, in which I led a small bipartisan group of former national security officials, I came away feeling hopeful about the kingdom's future. That may seem paradoxical when some portray the Saudis as both "arsonists and firefighters" in the strug...
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Saudi Arabia Reform Plans Flirt With Social Change
Reforms promised by a young Saudi prince are couched in references to the kingdom's Islamic tradition but include ideas likely to upset some conservatives, risking future ruptures over the direction of society.
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Executed Pakistani Hailed As Hero Of Islam For Supporting Blasphemy Law
Tens of thousands of supporters today cheered and threw flowers at the casket of a bodyguard executed for killing the governor of Pakistan's most populous province over his call to reform a strict blasphemy law.
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French Cabinet Backs Reforms To Enshrine Emergency Rules In Constitution
The French cabinet backed reform proposals today that could see the state of emergency called after last month's Paris attacks enshrined in the constitution.
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Russia to Propose Syrians Launch 18-Month Reform Process: Document
Russia wants the Syrian government and opposition to agree on launching a constitutional reform process of up to 18 months, followed by early presidential elections, a draft document obtained by Reuters showed on Tuesday.
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Saudi King Abdullah, A Gradual Modernizer
In a kingdom where ultra-conservative Muslim clerics long have held a lock on all aspects of society, King Abdullah's incremental reforms echoed mightily.
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Blog: Yes, Islam Needs to Reform
Stagnation has choked the flow of blood to its heart, writes Mohd Asim.
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Turkey lifts generations-old ban on Islamic head scarf
Turkey lifted a ban on women wearing the Islamic head scarf in state institutions on Tuesday, ending a generations-old restriction as part of a package of reforms the government says are meant to improve democracy.
