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Lebanon: Assassination renews threat of civil war
feature Suspicion for a massive car bombing on Beirut immediately on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Israel: Is Abbas yielding on the right of return?
feature Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is now pretending to be Israel’s last best hope for peace.
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Egypt: A revolution reversed
feature The Egyptian counterrevolution is complete. Will Egyptians renew their resistance?
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Uruguay: Getting into the marijuana business
feature Will state control over producing and distributing marijuana curb drug violence in Latin America?
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Venezuela: Training ground for terrorists
feature Two captured members of the banned Basque militant group ETA—which has been waging a fight for independence from Spain—told Spanish authorities that they had been trained in Venezuela.
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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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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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Canada: How to waste $1 billion a year
feature Even as the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s importance has plummeted, “its self-importance has skyrocketed,” said Ezra Levant at the Toronto Sun.
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South Africa: A return to the days of censorship
feature The “increasingly remote” African National Congress party drafted the bill so that anyone who exposes ANC corruption could face 25 years in prison, said Margie Orford at the Mail & Guardian.
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Chile: Repulsive honors for a murderer
feature There’s a disgusting effort afoot to rehabilitate Pinochet-era torturers, said Elias Vera Alvarez at Clarín.
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Indonesia: The dark side of Bali’s blissful allure
feature The “sense of privilege” and entitlement that our tourists project helped incite terrorist attacks in Balinese tourist zones in 2002 and 2005, said Jeff Lewis at The Sydney Morning Herald.
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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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