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Fresh pide from the oven, still lovingly warm… Plumb succulent dates and glistening black olives waiting side by side in little pretty plates. Home-made jewel-like jams and honey in comb next to morsels of cheese. Thirst-quenching glasses of tamarind sherbet.

Jihadists groups in Iraq, Kenya and Nigeria have killed dozens of pepole since the start of the World Cup, mirroring their actions four years ago It’s not just football fans whose football fever soars during a World Cup. So does that of militant Islamists and jihadists with deadly consequences.

The activist group anti-capitalist Muslims have repeated last years’ experience by organizing for the second time a fast-breaking dinner in Istanbul’s central İstiklal Avenue near the Taksim Square for the first day of Ramadan on June 28.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi landed in Islamist neighbour Sudan on Friday for a lightning visit, which an analyst said would attempt to shore up a regional alliance against Islamic "terrorism".

An AFP photographer at Khartoum airport confirmed the Egyptian leader’s plane had touched down and said Sisi, wearing a dark suit and sunglasses, left about two hours later.

Muslims in Turkey have welcomed the holy month of Ramadan, while the fasting will start in most Arab and African nations on Sunday.

The first suhoor - a Ramadan meal before dawn - took place in Turkey's northeastern city of Ardahan at 2.39 a.m. on Saturday while the last one occurred in the southwestern city of Mugla at 4.02 a.m.

BELGRADE - Serbian Mufti Muhamed Jusufspahic has read a missive on Ramadan, which begins at sunset on Friday, and called on all the Muslims in Serbia to meet the start of this observance in peace with God and all the peoples around them.

Sometimes the three most unrelated words can tell you a lot about a country when they are found on the news on the same day.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s dismissal of President Abdullah Gül’s congratulatory message to Egypt’s new President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi – even if he did not mention Gül by name - as “meaningless” may be a criticism of Gül. It could also mean that Gül and Erdoğan are playing the good policeman-bad policeman game here.

Four makeshift bombs exploded within minutes of each other at three Cairo metro stations during morning rush hour on Wednesday, wounding at least four people, police and health officials said.
      

More than 1,000 people -- at least three-quarters of them civilians -- were killed this month as Islamist militants swept through large swathes of northern and western Iraq, the United Nations said Tuesday.