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August 22, 2010
This week, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov once again cracked down on booze in the Russian capitol, signing a law completely banning store sales of alcohol between 10 p.m. and 10 a.m. The ban goes into effect on Sept. 1 and strengthens an existing restriction permitting only licensed stores to sell be...
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August 21, 2010
Pakistan is awash with the worst flooding in more than a century; Russia fights wildfires stemming from unprecedented high temperatures; China faces mudslides of an intensity unseen in decades. For many scientists and political leaders, the confluence of these weather catastrophes amounts to tra...
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August 20, 2010
It is one thing for a country to crave sovereignty, and another to get it.
Iraqi government officials today welcomed news that the last U.S. combat brigade had left the country, seeing it as a symbolic milestone in Washington's plans for a full withdrawal by the end of next year. There are no...
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August 18, 2010
A man has taken hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said.
Israeli police officers are seen in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostage...
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August 18, 2010
In an attempt to present themselves to new husbands as virgins, sexually active Chinese women are getting hymen reconstruction surgery. The Washington Post offers anecdotal evidence that the procedure is becoming more popular in China. (But if offers the big caveat, often implicit in such trend ...
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August 16, 2010
Asia paused on Sunday to remember Japan's surrender to the allied forces which ended World War II 65 years ago, as the Japanese prime minister apologized for wreaking suffering on the region and the South Korean president said Tokyo's remorse was a step in the right direction.
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