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German officials said they will try to stop right-wing extremists from committing "spiritual arson" by posting caricatures of Mohammed outside mosques.
4 deny attack plot over Danish cartoons
Danes reacted with anxiety and dismay to this week's opening of a trial of four men charged with plotting to attack a newspaper that published caricatures of Muhammad.
The Oslo, Norway, District Court convicted three men of plotting terrorist actions against Norwegian and Danish targets, officials said.
A Somali refugee was sentenced to nine years in a Danish prison Friday for trying to kill cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.
Kurt Westergaard, the Danish artist who created a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed, said he has decided to retire.
Kurt Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist who became famous or notorious for his depiction of the Prophet Mohammed, is thinking of hanging up his pencil.
Danish authorities have expanded the investigation into the attempted murder of an illustrator who drew a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed, with the suspect accused of having plotted a similar murder attempt against U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
A man charged with trying to kill a Danish cartoonist was arrested last year in an alleged plot to harm U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, officials said.
Danish police said Saturday they have charged a Somali man who allegedly tried to enter the home of a cartoonist who has attracted the anger of Muslims.
Danish police said they wounded a man Friday at the home of Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist who drew Muslims' anger with his drawings of the Prophet Mohammed.
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Palestinian  Security Forces Patrol the Border With Egypt.
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A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad