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Best columns . . .
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Why we only need one political party; How lawlessness breeds more lawlessness
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India
feature Shelving a nuclear deal with the U.S.
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China: Land of mystery meat
feature What are you supposed to feed your family when you can’t trust the labels on meat?
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India: Mocking our rape culture
feature Instead of another strident editorial, a group of Indian comics has captured the nation’s attention with a satirical video.
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The West inspired Africa’s violent homophobia
feature Many African countries view homosexuality as an import from the immoral West, said Thomas Hofnung in France’s Libération.
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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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Climate change: An agreement to make an agreement
feature In Durban, South Africa, participants extended the Kyoto Protocol for another five years, but negotiating a legally binding deal on reducing emissions was put off to the future.
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Indonesia: Persecuting a Muslim splinter sect
feature This year, more than two dozen regions and cities have enacted laws banning or restricting the Ahmadiyah sect, said Ati Nurbaiti at The Jakarta Post.
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East Africa: Not a lot to show for a half century
feature All three countries—Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya—are still in the lowest tier on the U.N.’s Human Development Index, which measures standards of living, said Joachim Buwembo at The East African.
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Russia: The beginning of the end of Putin?
feature Putin's United Russia party won the parliamentary election and will keep control of the State Duma, but it lost the two-thirds majority that allows it to change the constitution at will.
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