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Looks like the secular Uzbekistan government is trying to cover its bases when officials and doctors have deemed that both the Islamic hijab and European mini-skirts are dangerous for women’s health, and are advocating a return to traditional...
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A bitter dispute over abortion that prompted Rhode Island’s Roman Catholic bishop to ask Rep. Patrick Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion has revealed the depth...
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Russia has now turned into a “criminal state”, according to the man who was once its leading foreign investor.
Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital was...
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One person dies in Argentina every 28 hours as a result of repression by state security forces, according to a report by the Committee against Police and Institutional...
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At least seven people have been killed in two bomb blasts in India’s north-eastern state of Assam, police say.
The explosions happened within minutes in Nalbari,...
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To avenge the arrest of their leader, Mexican drug cartel commandos went on a rampage this summer across the lawless state of Michoacan, seizing 12 Mexican police...
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Few here doubt that the case began with something threatening: in June 2007, 27 hand grenades and fuses were found in the attic of a house in an Istanbul slum....
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Moderate Senate Democrats threatened Sunday to scuttle health-care legislation if their demands aren’t met, while more liberal members warned their party leaders...
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Now, he and hundreds of other successful farmers are replanting trees as part of an ambitious initiative to reduce deforestation. Their goal — to set aside...
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The leftist Venezuelan leader praised Carlos — whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sánchez — as “one of the great fighters of the Palestinian Liberation...
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Sabar Mina is cloaked in a light green shawl tinged with dirt. She is holding an empty flour sack that she plans on filling with firewood.
Her eyes are soft and kind,...
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Rwanda is set to succeed in its bid to join the Commonwealth this week despite serious concerns over its human rights record, according to a senior source close to the...
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A dark cloud continues to gloom over the media industry in Uganda as government of the National Resistance Movement (NRM,) headed by dictatorial General Yoweri...
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The wife of a candidate for governor and about 30 others were abducted Monday morning in the southern Philippines — with at least 21 of them later killed, army...
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It is with deep shock and regret that we have learnt that 24 inmates have died of Cholera at the Kamiti Maximum prison.
It is regrettable and unfortunate if such a...
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Armed operation against militants in Orakzai agency has frightened civilians in Hangu city since last morning, as told by locals of Hangu. The operation has reportedly...
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Silvio Berlusconi faces more damage to his reputation with claims that he was directly linked to Mafia bosses and new disclosures about his private life in the memoirs...
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Iran has begun a large-scale war games air defensive aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack. An air force commander is boasting his country can deter...
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There’s nothing like the threat of war to mobilize the support of a nation. So perhaps it’s not surprising that posturing over a soccer war with Algeria may...
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The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has rebounded in strength in recent months and appears to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Iraqi government as...
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Two fire-red birds swooped screeching through the forest, flared their yellow and blue wings and alighted on the upright trunk of a dead palm tree. In the green...
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“Worldwide, the number of mobile phone users will overtake the number of non-users this year for the first time.” (Prospect: March, 2008)
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