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Israel: Preventing the next war in Gaza
feature Israel has put a dent in the "terror infrastructure" that Hamas has built up and sent a signal to the Arab world. What's next?
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Egypt: This nation is more than just Islam
feature Egypt is in danger of losing its identity to Islamism.
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A once-great nation is dying out
feature Russia is literally dying, said Nicholas Eberstadt and Hans Groth in The Wall Street Journal Europe. The
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Israel: Stop paying for subversive teachings
feature The Haredim sponge off the rest of us, benefiting from huge state handouts as a reward for helping to keep the right-wing Likud party in power, said Nehemia Shtrasler at Ha’aretz.
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Russia: The Putins call it quits
feature Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife announced they were getting an amicable, “civilized” divorce.
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India: The seamy side of Mumbai on display
feature Slumdog Millionaire, which was directed by Danny Boyle, an Englishman, was released in India just this week. The last Indian movie to deal with life in the slums was Mira Nair’s 1988
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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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Tunisia: The only bloom of the Arab Spring
feature After years of “stormy discussions and intellectual tug-of-war,” Tunisia has emerged as a secular democracy.
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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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Russia: Putin, the womanizer in chief?
feature The glimpse of Lyudmila Putina at her husband’s presidential inauguration was only the third sighting in years.
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Israel: Killing protesters in the Golan Heights
feature Israeli troops killed at least 20 people when they opened fire on hundreds of unarmed protesters who crossed into the Golan Heights.
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Philippines: A calamitous response to calamity
feature “Where is the food, where is the water? Where are the military collecting the dead?”
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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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