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Bolivia: Can civil war be avoided?
feature There’s just one way out of this domestic crisis, said Jose Ocampo Castrillo in Bolivia’s El Diario: Both sides must acknowledge some blame.
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Israel: Can Tzipi Livni clean up politics?
feature Tzipi Livni has earned the nickname "Mrs. Clean," but she has been accused of being deceitful; Israelis are not convinced that she can lead the nation.
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Israel: Is the fighting in Gaza justified?
feature The debate within Israel over the offensive against Hamas
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Canada: Detainee abuse, followed by a coverup
feature Confirming the evidence of a senior diplomat based in Afghanistan, the head of Canada’s armed forces has admitted that at least one suspected Taliban member turned over to Afghan authorities had indeed been tortured.
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Lebanon: A tribunal that will never produce justice
feature The U.N. investigation of the assassination of Rafik Hariri is a sham, said Michael Young in The Daily Star.
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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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China: Why are men slaughtering schoolchildren?
feature In the past three months, six different middle-aged men have burst into a school and stabbed little children at random.
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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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Russia: Who’s to blame for the summer of fire?
feature The Russian Meteorological Center says this summer’s heat wave is the worst in 1,000 years.
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South Africa: Is a song inspiring blacks to kill whites?
feature “Kill the Boer,” an apartheid-era anthem that calls for the shooting of white farmers, has become a hit once again, now that a prominent black politician has begun singing it at his rallies.
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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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Canada: A titanic load of idiocy
feature A “sanctimonious Hollywood leftie” has attacked Alberta, and our leaders simply smiled meekly, said Ian Robinson in The Calgary Sun.
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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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