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JERUSALEM — Hundreds were injured as clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters broke out Monday morning at the Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, a site sacred to both Muslims and Jews, after a week of rising tension in the city. Police fired rubber-tipped bullets and stun grenades at stone-throwing Palestinians who had stockpiled stones …

“This event has definitely devastated our community,” said Imam Abdul Bashir, of the Islamic Association of Allen. Bashir said the deaths have rocked the group. ALLEN, Texas — It is a family tragedy that has awakened a community. Six family members of the Towhid family were found dead inside their Allen home on Monday morning.  …

Images on Turkish state television showed crowds of Muslims praying in and around the mosque on Friday morning. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan participated in the Friday prayers, where he recited verses of the Quran. Some people came from outside Istanbul and spent the night around Hagia Sophia waiting for the prayer, according to CNN …

St. Paul police have increased patrols around local mosques and Islamic community centers after an early-morning break-in at a mosque caused thousands of dollars in damages, according to officials there. A department spokesman said police are treating the episode as a possible “bias-motivated crime” — as they would any incident targeting a house of worship. …

Protesters vandalized businesses viewed as supporting Beijing, threw molotov cocktails at police stations, set barricades on fire and smashed up subway stations in chaotic scenes that have become familiar to the city after five months of sustained protest. The huge turnout, estimated by organizers at around 350,000 and including families, children and the elderly, showed …

The man suspected of shooting at people inside a Norwegian mosque on Saturday, and of killing his stepsister, appeared in court yesterday with black eyes and wounds on his face and neck. A judge gave police permission to hold Philip Manshaus, 21, in custody for an initial four weeks while he is investigated on suspicion …

The suspected gunman in an attack on a mosque in Norway on Saturday was inspired by recent white extremist attacks in New Zealand and the US, online posts suggest. Police in Norway have so far only said the attack in Baerum, a town 20km from Oslo, the capital, will be investigated as a possible act …

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Police say the suspect appears to have acted alone A man has been arrested in Norway after a shooting inside a mosque left one person injured on Saturday. Police say a gunman opened fire on the Al-Noor Islamic Centre, in the outskirts of the capital Oslo. Later a woman was …

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The mosque was found in the Israeli Bedouin town of Rahat in the Negev desert One of the world’s earliest known mosques, built around 1,200 years ago, has been discovered by archaeologists in Israel’s Negev Desert. The remains, dating from the 7th or 8th century, were found in the …

Philip Neville Arps, 44, was sentenced in Christchurch District Court on Tuesday to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to two charges of distributing objectionable material, his lawyer Anselm Williams confirmed to CNN. Arps sent copies of the footage — which was streamed live on March 15 by the mosque shooter — to about …