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Egypt: Bloodbath for the Muslim Brotherhood
feature The Egyptian army turned the Rabaa al-Adawiyah Mosque into a scene worse than the massacre in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
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Iran: Facebook friends with Israel?
feature The entire cabinet of President Hassan Rouhani has signed up for Facebook over the past month.
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Japan: Radiation damage to a national reputation
feature Japanese authorities have botched the containment effort at Fukushima and tried to hide these failures from the world.
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Iraq: Undermining the sanctions on Iran
feature The Iraqi prime minister has become Iran’s proxy.
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Canada: Is Toronto’s mayor a crackhead?
feature We have seen a cellphone video of what looks very much like Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack.
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Russia: Happily hosting Edward Snowden
feature The fugitive NSA contractor has asked Russia for temporary asylum until he can work out an arrangement to get to Latin America.
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Japan: Does an economic plan mask a nationalist push?
feature Now that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ended Japan's legislative gridlock, he can push through his ambitious economic reform program.
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Zimbabwe: Preparing for a post-Mugabe future
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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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Russia: Lighting a ‘powder keg’ in the Caucasus
feature How should the world react to strife between Georgia and Russia?
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Let’s swap land for peace with Syria
feature Golan Heights has brought Israel nothing but trouble—it's time to exchange it for peace with Syria.
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Middle East: Who assassinated Hezbollah’s assassin?
feature Syria now stands exposed as a protector of terrorists, said Britain’s The Times in an editorial. The assassination last week of Imad Mughniyah in Damascus proved that “Syria was harboring the terrorist who ranked second only to Osama bin Laden on Western
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Gaza: Can the peace process survive the latest violence
feature The Israeli incursion into Gaza has backfired, said Nehemia Shtrasler in Israel
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The Arab League: Who’s to blame for a dismal summit?
feature This year’s Arab League summit was a dismal failure, said Sulayman Taqiy-al-Din in the United Arab Emirates’ Al-Khalij. It’s true that the summit, held in Syria last weekend, came at a time of “escalation of inter-Arab discords” over such issues as Palest
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