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FULL TITLE: 'Why you got a mask? Terrorist!' Asian woman who racially attacked Muslim who was wearing a niqab sitting in her car is charged with assault The woman caught on camera accusing a Muslim woman of being a terrorist because she was wearing a niqab has been charged. Ramzy Alamudi said he and his wife were sitting in their car at Macquarie University, northwest Sydney, when the woman began berating her for her choice of clothing. 'Who are you? Why have you got a mask? Terrorist. You have gun?,' the woman said. The 35-year-old woman has been charged with...

Sporadic violence has broken out in several parts of London as police are attacked with missiles - including petrol bombs - and shops are looted in a third day of civil disorder. The latest unrest in the capital was centred around Hackney in east London and Lewisham and Peckham in the south of the capital. In Hackney, shops were attacked, and objects including chairs and pieces of wood were thrown at officers in riot gear. At one point, several people broke into the back of a stationary lorry. They pulled its contents out onto the road, and some hurled it...

BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank - Israeli troops on Thursday killed five Palestinians, including a top militant who said just a day earlier that he would never be caught, in the largest West Bank military operation since Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip last summer. The three fugitives from the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades were hiding in a crawlspace above the bathroom of a Balata house when soldiers ringed the building. A gun battle ensued, and at one point, the gunmen threw an explosive device toward the soldiers. Two soldiers were wounded, one seriously. At the time of the blast,...

COPENHAGEN, Feb 2, 2006 (AFP) - Denmark, where the publication of cartoons of Prophet Mohammed has provoked the wrath of the entire Muslim world, should "look at what happened to Theo van Gogh", a radical Islamic group warned on Thursday, referring to a murdered Dutch filmmaker. "It says in the Koran that the death penalty should be used for anyone who insults the prophet," Anjem Ghoudary, a spokesman for the London-based Al Ghurabaa group, told Danish daily Politiken. "Look at what happened to Theo van Gogh in Holland and you will understand that Muslims should be taken seriously," he added,...