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Egypt court sentences eight to death over prophet film

A court has in absentia convicted seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor on charges linked to "Innocence of Muslims".

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Al-Qaeda leader calls for more Muhammad film protests

Ayman al-Zawahiri said a film made in the US mocking the Prophet Muhammad showed Washington was waging a "crusader Zionist war" against Muslims.

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Anti-Islam film creator headed for probation hearing

A California man behind an anti-Islam film is due in court for a hearing on whether he violated his probation on a bank fraud conviction.

Women wear headbands reading ‘at your service God’s prophet’ at a rally denouncing the film ‘Innocence of Muslims’.

Truth about the Prophet’s wife

The Orientalist scholar W Montgomery Watt wrote of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam: "Of all the world’s great men, none has been so much maligned."

Spanish political satire magazine El Jueves has published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover

Spanish magazine publishes Prophet Muhammad cartoon

Spanish political satire magazine El Jueves has published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover, soon after protests rocked the Muslim world.

Libyan leader Mohamed al-Megaryef.

Libya leader says attack unrelated to anti-Islam attack

Libyan leader Mohamed al-Megaryef said that the deadly September 11 attack on the US consulate was a pre-planned assault.

Obama is leery about launching military action against Syria without firm evidence. (AFP)

Muslim leaders challenge Obama defence on anti-Islam film

Muslim leaders have demanded action to stop religious insults in a challenge to Barack Obama’s defence of freedom of expression at a UN meeting.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton with Libya’s President Mohamed Magariaf.

Clinton urges tolerance amid anti-US protests

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has appealed to Muslims to show "dignity" and not resort to violence as they protest an anti-Islam film.

The Taliban has denied responsibility for an attack on the Indian consulate in Jalalabad.

Three weeks to repatriate South Africans killed in Afghanistan

The process of repatriating the remains of eight South Africans killed in a suicide attack in Kabul last week is expected to take another three weeks.

Protesters display anti-US and anti-Israeli placards during a protest march against the US-produced anti-Islam movie in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.

Tens of thousands join anti-Islam film protests in Nigeria

"Death to America, death to Israel, death to the enemies of Islam" shouted crowds of Muslim protesters stretching several kilometres in Kano, Nigeria.

Spanish political satire magazine El Jueves has published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover
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Protests against insults to Islam kill 15 in Pakistan

Protests against insults to Prophet Muhammad turned violent in Pakistan, killing at least 15, but remained mostly peaceful in other Arab countries.

A paper American flag is defaced by Indonesians during a rally in Medan in protest against a low budget film that insults Islam.

Online video is not real source of rage

The extreme reaction of Muslims to anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" comes after years of subjugation and humiliation by Western forces.

French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo’s publisher and cartoonist

French cartoons fuel anti-Islam film rage

France has ramped up security at its embassies after a weekly revived a formula seizing attention: Publishing crude cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

Risky work in a war-torn Afghanistan

A suicide bombing that left eight South Africans dead in Afghanistan has highlighted the risks of working in the war-torn state.

A Libyan security guard holds a slogan

Clinton denies any advance warning of Libya attack

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has denied that Washington was warned of an imminent attack in Libya.

Even the letter-box at Pastor Terry Jones’s headquarters is Islamophobic.

Deep Read: Fanning the flames of hatred

They say the West has been hoodwinked by Muslims and claim to have been vindicated by last week’s attacks, but who are America’s "counter jihadis"?

The Taliban has denied responsibility for an attack on the Indian consulate in Jalalabad.
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South Africans killed in Kabul revenge attack

Eight South Africans are among those killed in a revenge bombing in Kabul over an anti-Islam film as protests rage across the Middle East.

Pakistani Sunni Muslims torch a US flag during a protest against an anti-Islam movie in Lahore.
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Video shows Libyans trying to save US ambassador

A new video shows Libyans trying to save Chris Stevens, cheering "God is great" and rushing him to hospital after finding him inside the US Consulate.

Supporters and members of hardline Islamist group of Ansar al-Sharia shout slogans during a demonstration against a film mocking Islam in Benghazi
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Libya arrests 50 over US envoy killing

Libya has arrested 50 suspects over the killing of the US envoy and three other Americans, claiming the Benghazi attack was pre-planned.

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Anti-Islam film made by Coptic fraudster and pornographer

The anti-Islam film that has triggered rioting across the Muslim world was produced by a US religious group and reportedly directed by a pornographer.