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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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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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Egypt: This nation is more than just Islam
feature Egypt is in danger of losing its identity to Islamism.
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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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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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Saudi Arabia: When vice is wearing eye makeup
feature Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice “have repeatedly shown that they do not respect the people’s right of privacy,” said Khalid Alnowaiser at Arab News.
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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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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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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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South Korea: Why can’t we stop the hazing?
feature Such shocking hazing has been reported again and again at our universities, and authorities promise in vain to stamp it out, said Kim Sang-beom in The Hankyoreh.
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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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