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The Muslim Weekly

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “national british muslim newspaper”. Today it says “muslim newspaper published in london”.
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The opening as it read in 2010

The Muslim Weekly is a national British Muslim newspaper , and is the first weekly newspaper for Muslims in the UK.1 Based in London, it is published every Friday and provides Britain's Muslims with domestic and international news, religious, social and sports reports, alongside commentary, editorials and a letters page for readers. The Muslim Weekly has an average circulation of 40,000, and was launched in October 2003.2

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “national british muslim newspaper”. Today it says “muslim newspaper published in london”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

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Then

national british muslim newspaper

Now

muslim newspaper published in london

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