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Vatican may eventually limit Sistine Chapel visits

YoopyaNov 1, 20120

(Reuters) – Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes turned 500 on Wednesday with the Vatican warning it may eventually limit visitors to protect one of the

Senegal’s Sall replaces interior, foreign ministers in reshuffle

YoopyaOct 30, 20120

DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegalese President Macky Sall has fired his interior and foreign ministers in his first cabinet reshuffle since taking office six months ago, the

Egyptians in hajj divided over Islam in politics

YoopyaOct 30, 20120

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Now that she has finished the hajj and is returning home to Egypt, Magda Bagnied says

Tunisian Salafis attack alcohol sellers in capital

YoopyaOct 29, 20120

TUNIS (Reuters) – Clashes broke out between alcohol sellers and hardline Salafi Muslims in the Tunisian capital, a security official said on Sunday, wounding a police

Egypt church moves closer to picking new pope

YoopyaOct 29, 20120

By Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) – A vote to help choose a pope for Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox church began on Monday in a process the minority

Insight: China grassroots democracy challenge awaits new leaders

YoopyaOct 29, 2012June 24, 20230

(Reuters) – Hua Youjuan is an unlikely Chinese official. Free-spirited but driven, she left her village at age 17, got a degree inmarketing, and opened

Al Qaeda’s Zawahri calls for kidnap of Westerners

YoopyaOct 27, 20120

(Reuters) – Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners, join Syria’s rebellion and to ensure Egypt implements sharia, SITE Monitoring

Fleeing Muslims seek food, shelter after Myanmar sectarian chaos

YoopyaOct 27, 20120

(Reuters) – Boatloads of Muslims struggled to reach refugee camps and sought safety on islands and in coastal villages on Saturday as Myanmar tried to

AngloGold miners at S.African operations resume work

YoopyaOct 27, 20120

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – AngloGold Ashanti said on Friday workers at its West Wits operations in South Africa had returned to work, bringing the curtain down on

Ivory Coast illegally arrested, tortured more than 200: Amnesty

YoopyaOct 27, 20120

By Joe Bavier ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Police and soldiers in Ivory Coast have illegally detained and tortured more than 200 people including supporters of former President