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JERUSALEM – Orthodox Jews have burned hundreds of New Testaments in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in Israel. Uzi Aharon, the deputy mayor of the central Israeli town of Or Yehuda, says he got into a loudspeaker car last Thursday and urged people to turn over hundreds …

PHILADELPHIA – A Boy Scouts of America chapter embroiled in a battle over gay rights has filed a lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia to avoid eviction from their city-owned headquarters. The federal lawsuit seeks to stop the city from evicting the Scouts or from charging the group about $200,000 …

Bangladesh’s Health Ministry says the nation’s first human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected. The Directorate General of Health Services statement says a child was infected by the virus in January. The statement Thursday did not give the child’s name, age, or other details, but …