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Canada: A titanic load of idiocy
feature A “sanctimonious Hollywood leftie” has attacked Alberta, and our leaders simply smiled meekly, said Ian Robinson in The Calgary Sun.
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World Cup: Where cheaters and fakers rule
feature “The embarrassment has gone out of cheating” at the World Cup, said Suresh Menon in India’s Tehelka.com.
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Venezuela: Training ground for terrorists
feature Two captured members of the banned Basque militant group ETA—which has been waging a fight for independence from Spain—told Spanish authorities that they had been trained in Venezuela.
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Israel: The fallout over the flotilla fiasco
feature Israel faces denunciations from the rest of the world, a possible United Nations inquiry, and pressure to relax or lift the blockade.
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South Africa: The vuvuzelas shall not be silenced
feature The five Chinese factories that produce vuvuzelas have been working overtime since last November to fill the orders pouring in from South Africa.
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Israel: Killing protesters in the Golan Heights
feature Israeli troops killed at least 20 people when they opened fire on hundreds of unarmed protesters who crossed into the Golan Heights.
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South China Sea: China takes on its neighbors
feature China is practicing an increasingly aggressive presence in the South China Sea.
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Saudi Arabia: Driving in a burqa
feature Last week, at least 29 women defied Saudi Arabia’s unwritten law against women driving.
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Egypt: Have Islamists hijacked the revolution?
feature The latest Al-Jazeera poll shows that nearly 50 percent of Egyptians support the Muslim Brotherhood, while another 27 percent support the Saudi-backed Salafists.
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Middle East: Lawlessness in Sinai
feature An incident in the Sinai peninsula at the border between Israel and Egypt reveals the uneasy peace between the two countries.
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Australia: We need peace between the U.S. and China
feature Our prosperity depends on a handful of big mining companies “and their immense exports of resources, especially to China,” said Hugh White in The Age.
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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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