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Monday, January 18, 2010 KANO: Clashes erupted between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria's central city of Jos Sunday, killing at least 10 people and prompting the government to impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew, residents and officials said. The fighting started when Christian youths protested the building of a mosque in Christian-dominated Nassarawa Gwom district, where houses and vehicles were also set alight, residents said. "Ten bodies have so far been brought to the hospital, some with gunshot wounds," a nurse at the Jos University Teaching Hospital told media on condition of anonymity. Six wounded people were also admitted, all with deep cuts, he said. A journalist in the city, a flashpoint for inter-religious violence, said he had seen nine bodies in the hospital and several wounded, some by machetes. Several houses and vehicles were also torched, said the journalist, Musa Habibu. "I was at the Jos University hospital where I saw nine dead bodies and...

Friday, August 14, 2009 PARIS: A Paris swimming pool has refused entry to a young Muslim woman wearing a "burqini," a swimsuit covering most of the body, officials said Wednesday, adding to tensions over Muslim dress in France.The incident came as French lawmakers conduct hearings on whether to ban the burqa after President Nicolas Sarkozy said the head-to-toe body covering and veil was "not welcome" in France, home to Europe's biggest Muslim minority.Officials in the Paris suburb of Emerainville said they let the woman swim in the pool in July wearing the "burqini," designed for Muslim women who want to swim without revealing their bodies.But when she returned in August, they decided to apply hygiene rules and told her she could not swim if she insisted on wearing the garment, which resembles a wetsuit with built-in hood.Pool staff "reminded her of the rules that apply in all (public) swimming pools which forbid swimming while clothed," sai...