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Bangladesh police on Wednesday detained 22 suspects in the latest round of suicide bombings outside courthouses around the country. Nine people died and over 65 were wounded when two bombs detonated Tuesday, in what police and lawyers...

Lawyers in Bangladesh Thursday entered their second day of a boycott on the court system to protest the suicide bombings which killed two judges earlier this week, as police increased efforts to find individuals suspected to have...

Two Bangladeshi judges were killed on Monday after a man threw a bomb at their car while the judges were on their way to the Jhalakathi district court, 155 miles south of Dhaka. Police said a young man has...

Two of the six radical Islamic militants interrogated in Bangladesh Wednesday in connection to their role in the simultaneous bombings of three courthouses Monday indicated association with Jamaatul Mujahideen and confessed to targeting the legal system in...

B'nai Brith Canada officials said Tuesday that they are considering a constitutional challenge to the Ontario ban on rabbinical courts imposed by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty , arguing that the ban may limit freedom of religion....

Muslim scholars in Nigeria have begun a campaign promoting Sharia or Islamic law as a tool for actually improving conditions for local women. Ibrahim Naiya Sada, director of the Centre for Islamic Legal Studies at a top...

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty told the Canadian Press Sunday that he will not let his province use Shariah (Islamic law) to settle family disputes involving Muslims, such as divorce and child custody issues. A 2004...

Hundreds of human rights supporters protested Thursday in European and North American cities over a proposal in the Canadian province of Ontario to set up special courts applying Islamic law on family issues. An Ontario government report ...

Arguments over Kenya's draft constitution have intensified after former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi spoke out in opposition to the document over the weekend, saying it would cause "animosity and distrust" in the country. Religious...

Complete text of the draft Iraqi constitution, as translated from the Arabic by the Associated Press :PREAMBLECHAPTER ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLESCHAPTER TWO: RIGHTS AND FREEDOMSPART ONE: RIGHTSPART TWO: FREEDOMSCHAPTER THREE: THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIESPART ONE: THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITYPART TWO:...