Turkish government and opposition agree to ease scarf ban
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Turkey's Islamist-rooted ruling AK Party and a key opposition party agreed on Thursday to cooperate to lift a ban on the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in universities, a move sure to anger the secular elite.
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Turkish lawmakers were set to lift a ban on Islamic headscarves at universities Saturday, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest the move as a threat to secularism.
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Turkey's main opposition party on Tuesday agreed to an offer by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to seek a compromise candidate to elect as the next head of state after months of wrangling.
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The Indian cabinet agrees to repeal a controversial anti-terrorism law which it says has been misused.
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SAINT-OUEN, France Sept. 3, 2004 - For some French Muslims, two worlds collided as the ban on wearing Islamic head scarves in public schools took effect.
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PARIS - Millions of French students returned to school Thursday as a new law that bans Islamic head scarves from classrooms went into effect amid demands by Islamic radicals holding two French hostages in Iraq that the law be scrapped.    Muslim leaders in France, who had largely opposed the law, urged calm for the return to class...
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Turkey's ruling party and a key opposition party agree to work to  lift a ban on headscarves in universities.
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India's president has repealed a  tough anti-terror law, a government official said on Wednesday,  removing a measure critics say has been misused against  minority Muslims and to settle political scores.
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Lawmakers voted early Thursday to approve a constitutional amendment allowing female students to enter universities wearing Islamic head scarves Â a move some Turks see as a threat to the traditional separation of church and state.
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There is a chorus of approval in Turkey's papers that its bid to join the EU is back on course after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan backed down over banning adultery.
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The Turkish Parliament on Sunday approved a revision of the country&#39;s penal code, after the government dropped a proposal to criminalize adultery.
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The country's leading secular opposition party has vowed to appeal this weekend's decision to lift a head-scarf ban to Turkey's top court.
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The Sudanese government and its rebel foes have reached an agreement at the peace talks aimed to end the conflict in the Darfur region.
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Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls for the lifting of a ban on women wearing headscarves at state universities.
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Turkeyâs parliament took a major step toward lifting a ban against womenâs head scarves in universities, setting the stage for a final showdown with the secular elite.
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Kenya's ruling party and opposition reach a deal in talks to end post-poll violence, officials say.
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France will maintain its ban on Muslim scarves and other signs of religious belief in state schools, ignoring demands by the Iraqi kidnappers of two French reporters, government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope said.