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Virgin Trains Boycotts Newspaper over Editorial Views
January 10, 2018
PR Week reports that the British company Virgin Trains (VT) has announced it will stop offering copies of the newspaper The Daily Mail on its trains, finding that the opinions of the editorial columns in the newspaper "on issues such as immigration, LGBT rights, and unemployment" are "not compatible with the VT brand and our beliefs."
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FBI Chief Says "Lone Wolves" Are Key 2018 Terror Threat
January 08, 2018
The Director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has identified lone-wolf attacks by homegrown Islamists, indoctrinated via online propaganda, as the priority domestic threat for 2018.
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Boko Haram Heralds Christmas Attacks on Nigerian Christians
January 08, 2018
The leader of one faction of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, whose moniker means "Western education is a sin," began the new year with a declaration claiming responsibility for a series of Christmas attacks targeting the country’s Christians, underscoring the resilience of the East African jihadi group committed to expanding sharia law throughout the region.
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Maldives Activist Faces Threats over Tweet on Religious Freedom
January 08, 2018
The prominent head of the Maldives Democracy Network is facing death threats and a police inquiry for “criminal behavior” under the country’s Religious Unity Act for a tweet supporting religious freedom and pluralism, as government officials in the country's Ministry of Islamic Affairs condemn "nonsensical talk that advocates for any faith other than Islam in the Maldives."
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Turkish Opposition Party Calls for Inquiry on Child Marriages
January 08, 2018
Turkey’s main opposition party has challenged the ruling Islamist party’s policies on marriage and gender issues as unconstitutional and is calling for an inquiry into the government’s support for the practice of child marriages with women as young as nine years of age.
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