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Canada’s election: The control freak versus the snob
feature Will Canadians return Prime Minister Stephen Harper to power or vote for his main rival, liberal leader Michael Ignatieff?
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Iran: Don’t question the supreme leader
feature When President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tried to fire his intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, he was overruled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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South Korea: Why can’t we stop the hazing?
feature Such shocking hazing has been reported again and again at our universities, and authorities promise in vain to stamp it out, said Kim Sang-beom in The Hankyoreh.
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Pakistan: Where gang rapists walk free
feature All but one of 14 men accused of arranging and executing the rape of a village woman were acquitted by Pakistan's Supreme Court.
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Japan: Catastrophe sparks fear of nuclear power
feature To what extent will Japan ever again rely on nuclear power as a source of energy?
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India: Could a yoga guru win votes?
feature Everyone scoffed last year when wildly popular guru Baba Ramdev announced he was creating a political party, said Sudha Ramachandran in The Asia Times.
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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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Can Syria’s president survive the Arab Spring?
feature Street protests, which started in mid-March in the conservative town of Daraa, have turned into the biggest crisis President Bashar al-Assad has faced since he succeeded his father 11 years ago.
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Guatemala: Divorce is not the way to win power
feature The constitutional court should put the kibosh on the idea: It shows a “complete lack of ethics” in the very person we rely on to uphold them, said Alfred Kaltschmitt in Prensa Libre.
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Middle East: What comes after Syria’s collapse?
feature The quicker the Assad regime crumbles, the better off the whole region will be.
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Canada: Obama’s Keystone cop-out
feature Obama played politics and nixed Keystone on environmental grounds, a cynical move designed to win the votes and money of the green movement, said Ezra Levant at the Calgary Sun.
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Pakistan: Is civilian government doomed again?
feature President Asif Ali Zardari, who was elected amid public outrage at the assassination of his wife, Benazir Bhutto, has aroused both the enmity of the courts and the military.
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