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Salesforce.com Inc., the largest maker of online customer-management tools, forecast profit for the fiscal second quarter that missed some analysts’ estimates as companies curtail spending on new business software.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Aloke Chakravarty surveyed a Boston courtroom packed with supporters of a Massachusetts man convicted of providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to commit murder in a foreign country.
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President Barack Obama is more popular abroad than he is at home, with confidence that he will act in the world’s interest remaining high in Western Europe while declining in many Muslim countries.
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Rising demand for white, or refined, sugar in Muslim countries is helping lift prices for the raw variety due to refiners’ demand, according to Castlestone Management Ltd.
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King Abdullah II of Jordan, a member of the dwindling band of Arab leaders who have somehow stayed in power despite the rise of what he calls a “Muslim Brotherhood crescent” across the Middle East, made an acute observation to me recently about the tactical immaturity of the Brotherhood’s leadership.
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Pope Benedict XVI’s life began in a picturesque Bavarian hamlet near Adolf Hitler’s birthplace. He will see out his days at a small Vatican monastery called “The Mother of the Church.”
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The recent slaughter of Shiites in Pakistan is another grisly reminder of the perilous condition of its minorities. Indeed, in Pakistan and Indonesia, the two largest Muslim countries, both of which are in the midst of a fraught experiment with electoral democracy after decades of military rule, murderous assaults on Shiites, Christians and Ahmadis by majoritarian Sunni fanatics have become routine.
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Europeans are the world’s biggest smokers and drinkers, according to a World Health Organization report that says higher prices on cigarettes and alcohol in the region may help curb the death and disease they cause.
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France will close diplomatic sites in 20 Muslim countries on Sept. 21 on concern that a French satirical magazine’s publication of cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad may provoke a violent backlash.
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Here are some highlights of Pope Benedict XVI’s papacy.
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