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...Algeria, six people were jailed last year for failing to observe the fast, while in Iran authorities have shut down restaurants for not closing during the day. Other places have their own unique requirements: when Ramadan falls during the summer months, as it does this year, Muslims living in northern countries face fasting through as many as 19 hours of daylight; Muslim scholars have suggested that worshippers in these climes follow the daylight hours of the nearest Muslim-majority nation...
...Farewell to a peacemaker," ran the headline of the Belfast Telegraph on Aug. 27. Outside the U.S., perhaps the warmest tributes to Ted Kennedy have been paid in Ireland, most of all in Northern Ireland, where he is credited - although far from unanimously - with helping bring about the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the political breakthrough that paved the way for Protestants and Catholics to share power...
...PETN explosives, guns and ammunition, fuses, detonators, and a total of 352 lbs (160 kg) of ammonium nitrate, which can be used to make bombs. The PETN explosives matched those used in the July 29 ETA bombing of a police barracks in Burgos in northern Spain that injured around 40 people. Investigators say they believe materials in the caches can also be traced to the ETA car bomb that exploded on July 30 on the tourist-packed island of Majorca, killing two Spanish police officers...
Though Kennedy's voice came to be respected in foreign policy matters in the course of his tenure--from calling for peace in Northern Ireland to voting against the authorization of the war in Iraq--he was most passionate about setting domestic social policy. Despite being born into a family often referred to as the closest thing to American royalty, Kennedy focused on helping the poor and disenfranchised through many of the 300-plus successful bills he sponsored during his tenure in the Senate...
...could have a devastating impact in one of the most fragile countries in the Middle East. A separatist insurgency in the south is threatening to break the country apart, while pirates from Somalia are menacing the coast. Al-Qaeda, meanwhile, has long seen the lawless tribal lands in the northern mountains as a potential sanctuary...