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Brazil: Can Rio clean up in time for the Olympics?
feature Brazil will be the first South American country ever to host the Olympic Games, but corruption marred the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio and the city is one of the most violent in the world.
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Canada: The truth about our health system
feature Americans have been fed a pack of lies about Canadian health care, said Stephen Lautens in The Calgary Sun.
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Pakistan: A secret deal to protect Musharraf
feature President Asif Ali Zardari has been ignoring demands to put Pervez Musharraf on trial for treason because the former dictator was granted a "safe exit" in a deal made with foreign powers.
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Canada: When ‘rights’ trump common sense
feature Political correctness is putting hardworking Canadians out of business, said Mark Steyn in Maclean’s.
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Afghanistan: Where boys are kept as concubines
feature The practice of bacha bazi, which means “boy for play,” was banned by the Taliban during its rule in the 1990s, but it has returned in recent years, said Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in The Guardian.<
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World Cup: Where cheaters and fakers rule
feature “The embarrassment has gone out of cheating” at the World Cup, said Suresh Menon in India’s Tehelka.com.
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India: Loving our tigers to death
feature Wildlife officials have been begging the National Tiger Conservation Authority to close off the country's tiger reserves to protect the fewer than 1,400 tigers that remain, said Rupa Sengupta in The Times of India.
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Philippines: A land of fanciful monikers
feature One politician is named Jejomar, “a name made up of the first few letters of Jesus, Joseph, and Mary,” said Nury Vittachi in The Jakarta Post.
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Jamaica: An attempted arrest turns into a bloodbath
feature A battle erupted in the Kingston neighborhood of Tivoli Gardens when soldiers and police tried to seize gang leader Christopher “Dudus” Coke to turn him over to the U.S. on extradition charges.
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Canada: Coulter tests the limits of free speech
feature Demonstrations outside a lecture hall at the University of Ottawa forced the cancellation of a speech by Ann Coulter.
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Australia: Redheads are not oppressed
feature In fact, getting all worked up over redhead jokes simply bolsters the stereotype that redheads have “fiery tempers” to match our fiery hair, said Michelle Griffin in The Age.
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Australia: End our subservience to America
feature Australian troops have died helping the Americans in Vietnam, in two wars in Iraq, and now in Afghanistan, said Paul Sheehan in The Sydney Morning Herald, yet they continue to ignore us.
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How they see us: Harsh sentence for a Pakistani
feature The conviction of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui to 86 years in prison for trying to kill an FBI agent prompted demonstrations throughout Pakistan.
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Pakistan: Confronting homegrown terrorism
feature The appalling bombing of the Islamabad Marriott this week was “Pakistan’s very own 9/11,” said the Islamabad News in an editorial.
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