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Spain: Is the queen entitled to her opinion?
feature In an authorized biography published to coincide with her 70th birthday, Queen Sofia of Spain broke the monarchy's traditional silence on social issues by giving her opinion on everything from gay marriage to abortion.
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Britain: Where nothing you say is private
feature Two sportscasters were suspended after an off-camera conversation of theirs was made public.
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Ugly American gray squirrels must die
feature An infestation of gray squirrels is
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Ireland: Parting ways with the Vatican
feature Relations between Ireland and the Vatican have been faltering ever since the Cloyne judicial report about the sexual abuse of Irish childen by Catholic priests was published in July.
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Belgium: Euthanasia for children
feature Should terminally ill children be allowed to end their lives?
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Denmark: Revenge for the caricatures of Mohammed
feature Kurt Westergaard, the artist whose drawing of the Prophet Mohammed caused riots across the Muslim world in 2006, was baby-sitting his granddaughter when a Somali man armed with an axe and a knife burst into his home.
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Complicit in the horrors of the Nazis
feature Austrians are guilty of selective amnesia, said Egon Schwarz in the Zurich, Switzerland, Neue Z
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Ireland: Blurring the meaning of ‘alcoholic’
feature The push to relabel alcoholism as “alcohol dependence” threatens to water down the term until it loses its kick, said Declan Lynch in the Irish Independent.
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Denmark: What’s so bad about nationalism?
feature We in the DPP recognize that Denmark made a mistake when it joined the Schengen group and succumbed to the “fanatical cult of the borderless Europe,” said Jesper Langballe in Berlingske.
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France: Pension reform was the last straw
feature Poor Sarkozy “wanted to be the French JFK,” but now “he looks more like Louis XVI awaiting trial,” said Philippe Marlière in the South Africa Cape Times.
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United Kingdom: Diana’s death still questioned
feature It’s been 16 years since the erstwhile Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash in a Paris tunnel.
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Germany: Should circumcision be a crime?
feature After a 4-year-old Muslim had to be treated for post-circumcision bleeding, a court ruled that circumcising young boys was illegal.
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Britain: Pope’s visit generates reverence and revulsion
feature Pope Benedict XVI became the first pontiff to make a state visit to Britain.
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