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A man and woman arrive at a service for Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X, at the Islamic Center of Northern California in Oakland, Calif., Friday, May 17, 2013. Authorities say Shabazz was beaten to death last week in a dispute over a $1,200 bar bill in Mexico City. The 28-year-old grandson of the slain civil rights leader had a troubled life, from setting a blaze in his grandmother's apartment that resulted in the death of Malcolm X's widow, Betty Shabazz, to stints in juvenile hall and prison. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Mourners gather to remember Malcolm X's grandson

Hundreds gathered Friday to remember the late grandson of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X as mourners said Malcolm Shabazz was well on his way to cementing his own legacy. More than 200 people attended a traditional Islamic service in Oakland for the 28-year-old Shabazz, who authorities say was beaten ...

  • Updated: 6:21 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2013
Family members of Mohammed Aboud, chant slogans against the Sunni-dominated Free Syrian Army rebel group and the al-Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra during his funeral in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 17, 2013. Hundreds of Iraqis in Basra, have attended the funeral of two Shiite fighters killed in Syria. Relatives of Aboud say he was killed by a sniper fire near the shrine of Sayida Zeinab outside the capital of Damascus five days ago. Arabic writing on coffin reads, “Sigh in grief, Zeinab.” (AP Photo/ Nabil Al-Jurani)

Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq

Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months. The major spike in sectarian bloodshed heightened fears the country could again be veering toward civil war. The attacks followed two days of ...

  • Updated: 4:39 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2013
This April 24, 2013 photo released by Human Rights Watch shows a torture device abandoned on the floor of a State Security building, in Raqqa, Syria. Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. (AP Photo/Bryan Denton for Human Rights Watch)

Report: Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons

Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. Raqqa, in eastern Syria, was overrun in late February by rebels fighting to topple ...

  • Updated: 2:30 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2013

W.Va. county's school chief must OK speeches

The head of Kanawha County schools will now have to sign off on certain assemblies following a debacle over an abstinence speech an area high school. A divided school board passed a measure this week to allow the superintendent to review all planned assemblies about sex, religion or politics. The ...

  • Updated: 9:40 a.m. Friday, May 17, 2013
A policeman clears away smoldering tires set ablaze as a form of protest by Bahraini government opponents across a street in Karzakan, Bahrain, on Thursday, May 16, 2013. A Bahraini demonstrator was sentenced to three months in prison Thursday for hanging a Bahraini flag from his truck during a 2011 rally, a defense lawyer said, in one of the first cases based on tougher codes for alleged insults to the Gulf nation's ruler or symbols. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Report: Bahrain police search home of top cleric

A main opposition group in Bahrain says police have searched the home of the Gulf nation's most senior Shiite cleric, who has strongly sided with anti-government protesters. The reported raid could touch off more clashes on the strategic island nation, home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. The group Al ...

  • Updated: 7:46 a.m. Friday, May 17, 2013

Coptic cleric says he will sue Israeli police

An Egyptian Coptic cleric who was mistreated during Orthodox Easter services is threatening to sue. Video supplied to The Associated Press shows Israeli police shoving Arsanious el-Orshalimi and putting him in a headlock. The incident took place during Orthodox Christian Holy Saturday in Jerusalem's Old City earlier this month. The ...

  • Updated: 2:48 a.m. Friday, May 17, 2013
Internally displaced Rohingya people load rickshaws with children and belongings to leave their camp in Sittwe, northwestern Rakhine State, Myanmar, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Tens of thousands of displaced Rohingya people live in the plastic-roofed tents and huts made of reeds, and they distrust nearly any order from a government that barely acknowledges they exist. Even as rain and wind from the edges of Cyclone Mahasen began to pelt the coast near the city on Thursday morning, most people camped there appeared to be staying put. Some, however, were taking down their tents and hauling their belongings away in cycle-rickshaws, or carrying them in bags balanced on their heads. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Bangladesh, Myanmar relieved as cyclone fizzles

A once-fearsome cyclone that was threatening Bangladesh and Myanmar dissipated quickly, causing some deaths but largely relieving authorities who had told more than 1 million people to leave vulnerable coastal areas in preparation for a far worse storm. Cyclone Mahasan lost power as it shed huge amounts of rain and ...

  • Updated: 10:30 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013
Minister Louis Farrakhan speaks to invited pastors and community members at the New Destiny Christian Fellowship, Thursday, May 16, 2013 in Detroit. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told a Detroit church audience that African Americans should pool their money and buy up property as a way to save the city. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Kimberly P. Mitchell) DETROIT NEWS OUT, TV OUT, INTERNET OUT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT DETROIT FREE PRESS

Farrakhan: Blacks should buy property in Detroit

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has told a Detroit church audience that African Americans should pool their money and buy up property as a way to save the city. The Detroit Free Press (http://on.freep.com/16ndNX7 ) says Farrakhan addressed about 250 people Thursday at New Destiny Christian Fellowship Church, one ...

  • Updated: 8:48 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

Georgia governor engaged in Bible dispute

When Ed Buckner and his family went to a north Georgia state park to celebrate his son's birthday, he was surprised and concerned to find Bibles in the state-owned cabin he had rented. An atheist, Buckner believes that no religious literature should be provided in government-owned lodging, and he presented ...

  • Updated: 7:26 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

Pope blasts "cult of money" that tyrannizes poor

Pope Francis has denounced the global financial system, blasting the "cult of money" that he says is tyrannizing the poor and turning humans into expendable consumer goods. In his first major speech on the subject, Francis demanded Thursday that financial and political leaders reform the global financial system to make ...

  • Updated: 12:24 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013
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