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Turkey and Israel: A friendship destroyed
feature Relations between Turkey and Israel have reached a crisis point over Israel's attack on the Turkish ferry Mavi Marmara.
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Venezuela: Is there Chavism after Chávez?
feature Chávez’s absence left a political vacuum and made people aware of the lack of a successor.
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Qatar: Arab tyranny, brought to you by the West
feature The U.S. is, of course, by far the biggest arms dealer, selling or giving more than $1 billion worth to Egypt alone in the past five years, said Gregg Carlstrom and Evan Hill at AlJazeera.net.
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South Korea: ‘A bromance’ between Lee and Obama
feature South Korean analysts note that even as Obama praised Lee, he was also subtly pressuring Lee to import more American products, particularly cars and beef, said Sunny Lee at The Asia Times.
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Israel: Is it time to attack Iran?
feature There is talk, once again, of a military strike on Iran's nuclear weapons programs.
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Pakistan: Charismatic and tough on America
feature At a rally in Lahore, Khan drew some 75,000 cheering supporters to listen to him rail against the “decadent, corrupt, and sucking-up-to-America ways of Pakistan politicians,” said Sanjeev Srivastava at Firstpost.com.
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Egypt: Will the revolution hurt women?
feature Next on the chopping block, and already under discussion, is our right to sue for divorce and then to retain custody of our children, said Aliaa Dawood at Al-Masry Al-Youm.
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Australia: How to kill the poker high
feature The high of getting "the feature" impelled me to play for hours, losing hundreds of dollars to win maybe $20, said Scott Eagar at The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Asia: Obama throws down the gauntlet to China
feature Asian nations seemed eager to work with President Obama to dampen China's interests and displays of power in the Far East.
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Pakistan: Is the U.S. undermining our president?
feature The Pakistani-American businessman claims that Husain Haqqani wrote a memo last May to Adm. Mike Mullen begging the Americans to intervene to prevent a military coup, said Cyril Almeida at Dawn.
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Canada: The war on boys in our schools
feature This “terrible toll of failure and death and destruction” is a direct result of our “stigmatizing normal male behavior,” said Ian Robinson at the Calgary Sun.
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Australia: Racism in the Qantas dispute
feature Union officials are not just complaining about “normal outsourcing”—their beef is with “Asianization,” said Chris Berg at the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Russia: When oligarchs admit to their crimes
feature The confessions of Berezovsky and Abramovich are motivated not by remorse but rather by greed, said Stanislav Belkovsky at Moskovsky Komsomolets.
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Iran: Dutch woman becomes Iran’s latest victim
feature The mullahs have been carrying on a “30 Years War” against women: Bahrami is the latest victim, said Mina Saadadi in De Volkskrant.
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