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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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Qatar: Arab tyranny, brought to you by the West
feature The U.S. is, of course, by far the biggest arms dealer, selling or giving more than $1 billion worth to Egypt alone in the past five years, said Gregg Carlstrom and Evan Hill at AlJazeera.net.
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Turkey and Israel: A friendship destroyed
feature Relations between Turkey and Israel have reached a crisis point over Israel's attack on the Turkish ferry Mavi Marmara.
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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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Jamaica: An attempted arrest turns into a bloodbath
feature A battle erupted in the Kingston neighborhood of Tivoli Gardens when soldiers and police tried to seize gang leader Christopher “Dudus” Coke to turn him over to the U.S. on extradition charges.
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Cambodia: Where corporal punishment is ingrained
feature Most teachers resist any suggestion that corporal punishment is counterproductive, and opponents have an uphill fight, said Ung Chansophea in Cambodge Soir Hebdo.<
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Israel: Blowback from creating Hamas
feature Israel is to blame for the hate-mongering entity that is Hamas, said Anat Saragosti in Yedioth Ahronoth.
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Pakistan: Where gang rapists walk free
feature All but one of 14 men accused of arranging and executing the rape of a village woman were acquitted by Pakistan's Supreme Court.
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China: Why are men slaughtering schoolchildren?
feature In the past three months, six different middle-aged men have burst into a school and stabbed little children at random.
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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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Afghanistan: Where boys are kept as concubines
feature The practice of bacha bazi, which means “boy for play,” was banned by the Taliban during its rule in the 1990s, but it has returned in recent years, said Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in The Guardian.<
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Philippines: A land of fanciful monikers
feature One politician is named Jejomar, “a name made up of the first few letters of Jesus, Joseph, and Mary,” said Nury Vittachi in The Jakarta Post.
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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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Philippines: A calamitous response to calamity
feature “Where is the food, where is the water? Where are the military collecting the dead?”
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