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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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North Korea: Kim sets a surprising new tone
feature Under its young new leader, North Korea’s closed society is starting to open up.
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Egypt: Same as the old boss?
feature President Mohammed Mursi surprised everyone by firing the top brass in the military and issuing a decree to restore presidential powers.
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Russia: Cracking down on musical dissent
feature Last month, members of the punk band and activist group Pussy Riot were sentenced to prison for their protest against Vladimir Putin.
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Saudi Arabia: When vice is wearing eye makeup
feature Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice “have repeatedly shown that they do not respect the people’s right of privacy,” said Khalid Alnowaiser at Arab News.
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Canada: Include us in ‘Buy American’
feature Many U.S. goods are jointly produced with parts from both Canada and Mexico, and acting as a single large market would help all three economies, said Robert Pastor at The Globe and Mail.
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Japan: Exporting a dangerous technology
feature Until we know all the things that went wrong with the nuclear plant at Fukushima, we have no business exporting nuclear technology, said an editorial at Shimpo Hebei Shimbun.
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Australia: Pressing the self-destruct button
feature Putting Labor’s infighting on display for the whole country to see is bad for the brand, said Nicolas Stuart at the Canberra Times.
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India: A quota for women in Parliament
feature Male members of Parliament are shrieking with horror, said Jayanthi Natarajan in The Asian Age, because a bill to establish a minimum quota of seats for women in Parliament is ready to come up for a vote
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Honduras: The world shrugs at a coup
feature More than a month after Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted, the countries of the Americas are still dithering and there is no concerted international effort to reinstate him.
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Russia: Silencing Chechnya’s human-rights hero
feature What the murder of human-rights activist Natalya Estemirova says about the politics of Russia's Caucasian republics
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Egypt: Freeing ourselves from U.S. influence
feature Egypt is finally liberating itself from the Mubarak regime’s legacy of subservience to the U.S., said Hassan Badi at Moheet.
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Russia: Rallying for the status quo
feature “The majority of the population of Russia is not yet ready for a revolution," said Dmitry Babich at The Moscow News.
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Turkey: Too quick to take offense
feature Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is far too thin-skinned, said Orhan Kemal Cengiz at Today’s Zaman.
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