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Japan: Catastrophe sparks fear of nuclear power
feature To what extent will Japan ever again rely on nuclear power as a source of energy?
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India: Could a yoga guru win votes?
feature Everyone scoffed last year when wildly popular guru Baba Ramdev announced he was creating a political party, said Sudha Ramachandran in The Asia Times.
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Australia: Redheads are not oppressed
feature In fact, getting all worked up over redhead jokes simply bolsters the stereotype that redheads have “fiery tempers” to match our fiery hair, said Michelle Griffin in The Age.
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Australia: End our subservience to America
feature Australian troops have died helping the Americans in Vietnam, in two wars in Iraq, and now in Afghanistan, said Paul Sheehan in The Sydney Morning Herald, yet they continue to ignore us.
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How they see us: Harsh sentence for a Pakistani
feature The conviction of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui to 86 years in prison for trying to kill an FBI agent prompted demonstrations throughout Pakistan.
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Can Syria’s president survive the Arab Spring?
feature Street protests, which started in mid-March in the conservative town of Daraa, have turned into the biggest crisis President Bashar al-Assad has faced since he succeeded his father 11 years ago.
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Middle East: What comes after Syria’s collapse?
feature The quicker the Assad regime crumbles, the better off the whole region will be.
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India: It’s easier to move people than tigers
feature In fact, scientists say the best response to a tiger attack on humans is not to go after the animal, but to move the people, said an editorial at The Hindu.
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Israel: Stop paying for subversive teachings
feature The Haredim sponge off the rest of us, benefiting from huge state handouts as a reward for helping to keep the right-wing Likud party in power, said Nehemia Shtrasler at Ha’aretz.
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Turkey: Gingrich’s odd embrace of a secularist
feature The answer can only be that Gingrich favors secularism not for Christians but for Muslims, as a bulwark against what he sees as “creeping sharia,” said Mustafa Akyol at Hürriyet.
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Russia: The children can’t take it anymore
feature The country has long had one of the world’s highest teen suicide rates, and in the past decade it’s gotten worse, said Alexander Tretyakov at Transitions Online.
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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: Everyone else gets Sunday off…
feature The prime minister has finally formed a committee to study the two-day weekend, said Kobi Oz at Yedioth Ahronoth.
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Canada: A slap on the wrist for a pedophile
feature Canadians are outraged over the laughably light sentence given to a child molester.
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