The Muslim owner of a tire shop in Paradise, California that was incinerated in the Camp Fire sued Nationwide Insurance in Butte County Court, claiming its adjuster responded to his expert’s claim for $175,000 by saying: “I am not paying either your bid or our bid. That Arab doesn’t need more money!”
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Muslims in a northeastern neighborhood of India’s capital returned for weekly prayers at fire-bombed mosques Friday, two days after a 72-hour clash between Hindus and Muslims left at least 40 dead and hundreds injured.
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Germany’s highest court ruled Thursday that a Muslim law clerk can be prevented from wearing a headscarf during court proceedings.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for calm Wednesday after Delhi’s worst sectarian violence in decades left at least 20 people dead and nearly 200 injured.
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The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Bulgaria to halt its deportation of a group of Uighur refugees, on the grounds that they could be tortured or killed by Chinese authorities.
Read moreGerman police raided locations across the country early Friday in a probe against an extreme-right group suspected of planning “attacks on politicians, asylum-seekers and people of Muslim faith,” prosecutors said.
Read morePatrick Eddington, with the Cato Institute, sued the FBI for information on Operation Vulgar Betrayal, its surveillance of “mosques, schools, and community meetings in Bridgeview, Illinois,” in a federal FOIA complaint.
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The Trump administration expanded its controversial travel ban to six new countries Friday, sparking widespread condemnation from civil rights groups who claim the new restrictions are motivated not by national security but anti-Muslim bias.
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A Fourth Circuit panel seemed unlikely Tuesday to allow a discovery request in an ongoing fight between immigration rights advocates and President Donald Trump over his 2017 travel ban.
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In the Indian capital’s Shaheen Bagh neighborhood, beside open sewers and dangerously dangling electricity wires, a group of Muslim women in colorful headscarves sit in resistance to a new citizenship law that has unleashed protests across the country.
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The U.N.’s highest court ordered Myanmar on Thursday to take immediate measures to protect Rohingya Muslims from acts of genocide.
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The White House is considering dramatically expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries amid a renewed election-year focus on immigration by President Trump, according to six people familiar with the deliberations.
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The European Union refused to take part in a rare diplomatic visit to Indian Kashmir starting Thursday because they will not be allowed to meet detained politicians, reports said.
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Sometimes Arshad Hussain disappears. He will be sitting on the bed, watching relatives, neighbors and journalists pour into his house when suddenly scenes of his dead son wash over him.
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In remote Indian Kashmir people have been offline since August, queuing for hours to pay bills or using government “internet kiosks.” As protests rage in other areas of India, it’s something people outside the Himalayan region are also getting a taste of.
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The toll of the dead rose Friday to at least eight, with more than 1,200 protesters arrested in the capital alone as Indian police fruitlessly banned public gatherings many cities for a third day and cut internet services to try to stop protests against an anti-Muslim citizenship law.
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Police arrested hundreds of protesters in some of India’s biggest cities Thursday as they defied a ban on assembly imposed to stop nationwide demonstrations against a new citizenship law targeted at Muslims.
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India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday postponed hearing pleas challenging the constitutionality of a new citizenship law that has sparked opposition and massive protests across the country.
Read moreA Muslim, black U.S. citizen sued Attorney General William Barr, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security in federal court, claiming they had his airport worker’s credential revoked and put him on a terrorist watch list, falsely, to retaliate for his refusing to become an FBI informant.
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Indian student protests that turned into violent clashes with police galvanized nationwide opposition on Tuesday to a new law that provides a path to citizenship for non-Muslim immigrants who entered the country without documents from several neighboring countries.
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