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Tajikistan fails to curb abuse of women - Amnesty
Reuters - Tuesday, November 24ALMATY (Reuters) - The government of the Central Asian state of Tajikistan is failing to protect women from violence and abuse, human rights group Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday.
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Belgian says he was alert but mute for 23 years
AP - Tuesday, November 24BRUSSELS - For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out.
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Japanese engineer released by Yemeni tribesmen
AP - Tuesday, November 24SAN'A, Yemen - A Japanese engineer seized by Yemeni tribesmen seeking to swap him for a prisoner with al-Qaida links was released Monday after a week in captivity.
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Canadian woman loses benefits over Facebook photo
AP - Tuesday, November 24BROMONT, Quebec - A Canadian woman on sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits after her insurance agent found photos of her apparently having fun on Facebook.
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Camus' children torn over Pantheon transfer bid
AP - Tuesday, November 24PARIS - Albert Camus' children are torn about whether to allow the Nobel Prize-winning author's remains to be moved from southern France to Paris' Pantheon, the final resting place of other French greats like Voltaire and Victor Hugo.
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France shows off cutting-edge navy ship in Russia
AP - Tuesday, November 24ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - A cutting-edge French warship sailed into St.
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Two Afghan ministers suspected of embezzlement
Reuters - Tuesday, November 24By Hamid Shalizi
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Pirates free hijacked ship bound for Somali port
AP - Tuesday, November 24MOGADISHU, Somalia - A Somali businessman says a ship hijacked by pirates off East Africa two weeks ago has been released.
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Germany criticises Israel settlement plan before visit
Reuters - Tuesday, November 24BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany on Monday criticised Israeli plans to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank, in unusually explicit terms a week before the two countries' leaders meet in Berlin.
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Sri Lanka sets date for presidential poll
Reuters - Tuesday, November 24By Ranga Sirilal
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Iran police arrest 12 couples for partner swapping
AFP - Tuesday, November 24TEHRAN (AFP) - - Iran's moral police have arrested a dozen couples for engaging in illicit sexual acts, including swapping of partners, the conservative Jomhuri Eslami reported on Monday.
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Incumbent Basescu tops Romanian poll first round
Reuters - Tuesday, November 24By Radu Marinas
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Mexico City's famed dance-for-peso halls fading
AP - Monday, November 23MEXICO CITY - Mirna Torres salsas with a gray-bearded man for $1.50 a dance in the Barba Azul, a dark yet garish cabaret decorated like an erotic carnival fun house.
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Tensions between British, US military over Iraq
AFP - Monday, November 23LONDON (AFP) - - Hostility between US and British military leaders in Iraq ran deep, with one describing his US counterparts as "group of Martians," a newspaper reported Monday, citing leaked government documents.
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Swimmers, poets among 2010 Rhodes Scholars from US
AP - Monday, November 23When Henry Spelman found out he'd won a Rhodes Scholarship, his first call was to his girlfriend.
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Somali pirates holding 12-year-old hostage: Spanish skipper
AFP - Monday, November 23MADRID (AFP) - - A Spanish trawler captain released by Somali pirates said he is haunted by his failure to save a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl held captive for more than six months, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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Albania opposition protests to demand vote recount
Reuters - Saturday, November 21By Benet Koleka
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AP Exclusive: Muslim countries seek blasphemy ban
AP - Friday, November 20GENEVA - Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery _ essentially a ban on blasphemy that would put them on a collision course with free speech laws in the West.
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