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Lebanon: Assassination renews threat of civil war
feature Suspicion for a massive car bombing on Beirut immediately on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Uruguay: Getting into the marijuana business
feature Will state control over producing and distributing marijuana curb drug violence in Latin America?
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Pakistan: Charismatic and tough on America
feature At a rally in Lahore, Khan drew some 75,000 cheering supporters to listen to him rail against the “decadent, corrupt, and sucking-up-to-America ways of Pakistan politicians,” said Sanjeev Srivastava at Firstpost.com.
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Pakistan: Is the U.S. undermining our president?
feature The Pakistani-American businessman claims that Husain Haqqani wrote a memo last May to Adm. Mike Mullen begging the Americans to intervene to prevent a military coup, said Cyril Almeida at Dawn.
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Turkey: Will these killers ever be punished?
feature The Turkish state has proved once again that it is not yet ready to render even-handed justice to those it sees as enemies, said Mehmet Ali Birand at Hurriyet Daily News.
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Japan: Limping along, one year after the tsunami
feature The people are doing their best. “If only their politicians and bureaucrats were not so incompetent.”
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Israel: Is Netanyahu moving toward the center?
feature The prime minister surprised everyone by canceling elections and bringing the centrist Kadima party into his governing coalition.
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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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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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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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Brazil: The army takes on the drug gangs
feature It’s official: The army and the police have “reconquered” two of Rio de Janeiro’s worst slums, reclaiming them from the drug gangs that have run them for years, said Rodrigo Rötzsch in Brazil’s Folha.
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Egypt: Coptic Christians under attack
feature The Egyptian army killed some two dozen Coptic Christians who were protesting the army’s failure to punish a series of Islamist attacks on their churches.
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Canada: A court that treats us like children
feature If you crumble “at a rude word from some random loser, you have problems no hate-speech judgment can begin to address,” said John Robson at the Ottawa Sun.
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Mexico: Is America going to go fascist?
feature The prevalence of “anti-immigrant demagoguery” increases the likelihood that Mexicans will be discriminated against, exploited, or abused, said an editorial in La Jornada.
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