Muslims are far more likely to face racism than others, Australian study finds

A survey of Muslims living in Sydney, Australia's most populous city, f0und that a considerable majority -- 57 percent -- had experienced some form of bigotry or racism. According to researchers, that incidence rates for such anti-Muslim prejudice were three to five times the national average. The study, conducted by Western Sydney University, Charles Sturt University […]











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Pope Francis: The world is near ‘suicide’ on climate change; ‘it’s now or never’

Pope Francis on Monday urged environmental negotiators meeting in Paris to strike a deal to address climate change, warning that the world is "at the limits of suicide." "I am not sure, but I can say to you 'now or never'," he told a group of reporters aboard the papal plane, en route home from Africa, according […]











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Pope Francis picked up a microphone. The Internet gave him lyrics.

On Monday, Pope Francis toured parts of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, a country wracked in recent years by civil strife that to an extent played along sectarian lines. During his visit, as my colleague Kevin Sieff reported, the pontiff urged unity and reconciliation. "Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters," he said, […]











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Netanyahu and Abbas shake hands for the first time in 5 years — then try to take it back

JERUSALEM -- For two guys who are always saying how much they really want to get together and talk, they rarely meet. But on Monday at the opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shook hands -- for the first time […]











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Netanyahu and Abbas shake hands for the first time in 5 years — then try to take it back

JERUSALEM -- For two guys who are always saying how much they really want to get together and talk, they rarely meet. But on Monday at the opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shook hands -- for the first time […]











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Northern Ireland’s restrictive abortion law ‘breaches human rights,’ court rules

Northern Ireland's near-total ban on abortions "breaches" the human rights of citizens because it doesn't contain exceptions for victims of incest and rape and those carrying fetuses with fatal abnormalities, the High Court in Belfast ruled Monday. Abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland — except in cases in which a woman's life is in danger — […]











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