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  Main Paris mosque criticizes burger chain's efforts to offer food tailored to Muslims
12:00:36 PM (ET), Thursday, September 2, 2010
(AP Photo) Byline: Jacques Brinon

Note to big companies hoping to tap into France's lucrative but long-neglected Muslim consumer market: Pitfalls may await, and not only in the form of complaints from the far-right.As of this week, 22 outlets of popular French fast food chain Quick are serving burgers it says respect Islamic dietary law. And while many Muslims are delighted, the powerful main Paris Mosque complained Thursday that Quick's criteria aren't all-encompassing enough, and that the operation is meaningless.

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Thursday, September 2, 2010
  • Animal rights activists claim release of 50,000 minks in northern Greece
  • Lawyer in Iran stoning case reunited with wife, daughter in Norway
  • UN human rights office to delay release of Congo 'genocide' report until October
  • Recovering centuries-old bubbly in Baltic Sea, divers also find bottles of 'drinkable' beer
  • Main Paris mosque criticizes burger chain's efforts to offer food tailored to Muslims
  • Slovakia observes day of mourning after shooting spree that left 8 dead
  • US officers take up posts at Paris airport to help screen America-bound passengers
  • After 6 years, Portugal's biggest child sex abuse trial draws to a close
  • Spanish minister asks traffic officers to 'please' stop going easy on issuing fines
  • Serbia authorities say $256 million in property confiscated from organized crime bosses
  • Ferrari recalling more than 1,000 of its 458 Italia supercars after reports of 5 fires
  • Suspected IRA dissident arrested in Northern Ireland over August bomb that wounded 3 children
  • French government firm on raising retirement age despite plans for street protests

  • Wednesday, September 1, 2010
  • Tensions between Israel, Islamic nations scuttle IAEA plans for talks on nuke-free Mideast
  • Swedish prosecutor reopens rape probe against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
  • Dutch prosecutors say Yemenis arrested in terror probe have been freed
  • Polish president says cost of Afghan war hampering military's modernization
  • Bosnian animal rights group calls on authorities to investigate video of woman killing puppies
  • Dutch prosecutors say 2 Yemeni men arrested in terror probe have been freed without charge
  • British jury finds lapses in secret anti-terrorism tests that killed government bomb expert
  • Israeli cultural institute, heralded as the 1st in the world, to open in Budapest
  • Germany charges Austrian with covert delivery of technical know-how to Russia
  • Poland marks 71st anniversary of Nazi invasion that started World War II

  • Tuesday, August 31, 2010
  • Red Cross official says Somalis swamping hospitals during violent clashes in capital
  • EU lawmakers attend opposition rally in Moscow, criticize violent detentions by Russian police
  • British official steps up pressure on Serbia over its UN resolution on Kosovo
  • German bishops expand guidelines for suspected sex abuse, require alerting prosecutors
  • Germany celebrates 20th anniversary of its reunification treaty
  • AP Interview: Walesa says 30 years after Solidarity, more reforms needed in Poland
  • Spain says it broke up human-trafficking gang dealing in male prostitutes from Brazil
  • Gadhafi ends Italy visit after sparking controversy for conversion call, demand for EU cash
  • Pope grants interviews to German journalist for new book expected later this year
  • Report: Scotland Yard arrests UK kickboxer suspected of fatally stabbing ex-Marine in Thailand
  • Officials: Burglars break into Russian investigators' office, snatch a TV and camera
  • Petraeus: Taliban gains not reversed in all areas of Afghanistan

  • Monday, August 30, 2010
  • Tired and disillusioned, Lech Walesa shuns Solidarity anniversary sessions
  • French government faces internal 'malaise' over policy of expelling Gypsies
  • Putin belittles Russia's opposition, says police will still break up unauthorized rallies
  • Nearly 15,000 people still missing from 1990s Balkan wars, Red Cross says
  • As damaging secret tapes emerge, Belgian Cardinal says he was 'naive' to meet sex abuse victim
  • UN war crimes prosecutors say 1995 Croatian campaign deliberately ethnically cleansed Serbs
  • Russian nursing home blaze kills 9; officials say 86-year-old man apparently set self on fire
  • Ex-Congo VP tells war crimes court he has no funds for defense because his assets are frozen

  • Sunday, August 29, 2010
  • Politician leading coalition talks in Belgium offers to resign, but king says keep trying
  • Reports: 100 Russian skinheads attack concertgoers with clubs, killing girl
  • Kangaroo testicle, anyone? Chefs serve unusual fare at testicle cooking championship in Serbia
  • Alleged Norway bomb plot points to pitfalls of al-Qaida's new looser structure
  • 12 suspected insurgents, 5 civilians and 2 security officers killed in Chechnya shootout
  • US soldier drowns in rafting accident in southern Germany
  • Great Silk Road's modern dark side: Government forces Uzbek children to help grow silkworms

  • Saturday, August 28, 2010
  • Far-right demonstrators clash with riot police in city in northern England
  • Bosnia, Serbia restart steam train line in bid to attract tourists, boost ties
  • Red Cross: All missing rafters found after capsizing in raging Alpine river in western Austria
  • Catholic church leader in Belgium offered to hush up sex abuse case against bishop
  • Denmark navy helicopter foils pirates off the coast of Somalia, firing warning shots
  • Amanda Knox, jailed in Italy for murder, wants to adopt children when free, according to book

  • Friday, August 27, 2010
  • British Airways passengers accidentally told to prepare for crash landing during flight
  • 12 killed as torrential rains in Turkey trigger landslide; 2 still missing
  • UN anti-racism panel finds Iran discriminating against Arabs, Kurds, other ethnic minorities
  • UK researchers: Possible new wave of homegrown terrorism in Britain fueled by ex-prisoners
  • Remains of Srebrenica massacre victims found in hidden graves at waste dump site in Bosnia
  • Vatican: Church not playing politics but defending rights in deploring French Gypsy expulsion
  • Man to appear in court charged with raping 3 British tourists on Greek holiday island
  • 44 German riders, most of them young, injured when horses panic during torch-lit ride at night

  • Thursday, August 26, 2010
  • Weight loss surgeries in England rose tenfold from 2000-2008, experts worry trend may continue
  • Troubled Peace: Northern Ireland frets over upsurge in violence
  • Dutch teen sailor says she has reached Canary Islands on controversial solo trip around world
  • Medical instruments likely used by the Nazis for experiments obtained by Auschwitz memorial
  • 2 Greek fighter jets crash in mid-air during training flight; 1 dead
  • Declassified dossier suggests glamorous German spy thwarted British battle victory
  • French diet guru Michel Montignac, author of "glycemic index" weight loss books, dies
  • Albania, Macedonia commemorate Mother Teresa on centenary of her birth
  • Shooting deaths of 3 Spaniards boost pressure on Spain to quit Afghanistan
  • Bomb explodes outside apartment house of magistrate fighting 'ndrangheta syndicate in Italy

  • Wednesday, August 25, 2010
  • Daughter of British PM Cameron gets Cornish middle name, reflecting place of her birth
  • Murder inquiry begins after police discover body of man believed to be British spy
  • 3 arrested in Moldova on suspicion of trying to traffic smuggled uranium
  • European royals attend the wedding of the second son of Greece's former king
  • Gheorghe Apostol, veteran Romanian Communist who turned against Ceausescu, dies at 97
  • Marcel Albert, French flying ace in World War II, dies in Texas at age 92
  • Russia's Putin shoots darts at endangered gray whale for scientific research
  • UN agency makes unusual Pakistan aid appeal, while Washington pushes for transparency
  • Vivienne Westwood to showcase 4 decades of footwear in new exhibition in London
  • Amid flood risk, engineers in France work to drain water from glacier on Mont Blanc
  • Swiss death penalty advocates drop campaign for referendum to restore capital punishment
  • Doctors: Transplant of ex-German FM's kidney to his wife successful

  • Tuesday, August 24, 2010
  • UK police: Suspect arrested in case of Canadian whose body was found in a suitcase at Heathrow
  • Report: Gov't, Catholic church covered up suspected role of priest in 1972 NIreland attack
  • Romanian nurse charged for alleged manslaughter following fire that killed 5 newborns
  • Branching out: Shoot growing from stump of toppled Anne Frank tree to give chestnut new life
  • Rights panel `deeply concerned' about France's treatment of Roma or Gypsies
  • How cute! Second healthy panda cub born in Austria in just 3 years
  • Catholic priest in Germany charged with twice raping a 14-year-old girl
  • Al-Qaida says Spaniards released after some demands met, warns against use of military force

  • Monday, August 23, 2010
  • Doggie paddle to the rescue: Canine lifeguards leap from speeding boats to save swimmers
  • Estonian Navy finds wrecks of 3 British World War I-era ships off Baltic Sea island
  • Acropolis to open for August full moon, after Greek officials solve dispute with guards
  • Holiday's over: Sarkozy faces discontent about pension overhaul, Gypsy crackdown
  • British papal pilgrims told to pack a picnic, but leave pets, instruments and alcohol at home
  • Protesters demand the release of politicians accused of plotting to topple Turkey's govt
  • Dutch teen sailor heads for Canary Islands on controversial solo trip around the world
  • The shoe heard round the world: Footwear taking flight becomes an escalating global trend
  • German faces terrorism charges linked to group that plotted to attack US targets
  • Lawyer: American detained in Turkey over alleged links to Kurdish rebels has been deported
  • Stray cats strut Istanbul's streets, a symbol of tradition in a churning metropolis
  • Petraeus says he'll tell Obama there should be no sudden exodus of troops from Afghanistan