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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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Australia: Where even the teachers can’t spell
feature Australia’s children are being taught by illiterate teachers.
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Israel: All bias is not equal
feature Palestinian schoolchildren are taught to view the destruction of Israel as their duty.
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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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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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Malaysia: Hiding something or just incompetent?
feature It is “painful to watch” how Malaysia has embarrassed itself before the world with its bungled response to the missing plane.
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India: After a savage rape, a nation looks inward
feature The brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman has “stirred the conscience of the nation.”
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Japan: Exporting a dangerous technology
feature Until we know all the things that went wrong with the nuclear plant at Fukushima, we have no business exporting nuclear technology, said an editorial at Shimpo Hebei Shimbun.
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Egypt: A court rules on Mubarak’s crimes
feature A judge sentenced Hosni Mubarak to life in prison.
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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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China: Staking a claim to the air and the sea
feature China has declared an air defense identification zone over the East China Sea that includes a set of islands claimed by Japan.
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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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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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Argentina: Did the pope collude in the Dirty War?
feature Old allegations have resurfaced that Pope Francis was complicit with the right-wing military junta during 1976–83 Dirty War.
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