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ANKARA: Türkiye's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday (Jul 30) urged Sweden to take concrete steps to prevent burnings of the Quran, a Turkish foreign ministry source said. Sweden and Denmark have seen several protests in recent weeks…

COPENHAGEN: The Danish government will seek to "find a legal tool" that would enable authorities to prevent the burning of copies of the Quran in front of other countries' embassies in Denmark, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told the…

The Danish government said Sunday it would explore legal means of stopping protests involving the burning of holy texts in certain circumstances, citing security concerns following backlash over such incidents that saw the…

STOCKHOLM : Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson is "extremely worried" about the consequences if more demonstrations go ahead in which the Quran is desecrated, he said on Thursday (Jul 27), amid growing Muslim anger at a series of…

The Saudi-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Sunday called for collective measures to avoid future Koran burnings, days after a copy was torched outside a Stockholm mosque.The 57-member body met at its Jeddah headquarters to…

When the young farmhand returned to his village in Myanmar, he found the still smoldering corpses in a circle in a burned-out hut, some with their limbs tied. The Myanmar military had stormed Done Taw at 11 a.m. on Dec. 7, he told the AP,…