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Kyrgyz Sex Video: You Can Leave Your Mufti Hat On
Here's a story you don't hear every day: the grand mufti of Kyrgyzstan -- the highest Islamic authority in the country -- resigned Tuesday over a sex-tape scandal. The mufti, Rakhmatulla-Hajji Egemberdiev, admitted that the man in a white tank...
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Fri, Jan 10 2014 12:48 PM
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Hollande Tries to Kickstart His Presidency Like the Scooter He Rides to His Trysts
He's the most unpopular French president in modern memory. He's struggled to jumpstart his country's sluggish economy. And on Tuesday French President Francois Hollande faced an assembled 500 journalists to present his plan for how to bring...
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Tue, Jan 14 2014 2:14 PM
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan's 'Dirty Harry'
Karachi's famed police investigator, Chaudhry Aslam Khan was a man for whom metaphors have been mixed. He was a divisive figure, sometimes called Karachi's " Dirty Harry " because of his controversial law enforcement tactics, which many...
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Thu, Jan 09 2014 3:18 PM
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Davos Wants You to Know It Really, Really Cares About Inequality
Pope Francis would like the international business mandarins assembled at Davos for the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum to know that they really ought to be doing something about economic inequality in the world. In remarks read by an emissary...
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Tue, Jan 21 2014 2:27 PM
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At Davos, Iran Tries to Reopen the Bazaar
DAVOS, Switzerland — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is touting Iran as a prime investment opportunity to the business people and political leaders at Davos. They're definitely willing to take a look, but it's not clear yet that anyone will be...
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Thu, Jan 23 2014 5:00 PM
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At Davos, Developing Countries Advertise Themselves More Than Companies Do
DAVOS, Switzerland — As cars slalom through the steep, narrow streets of Davos shuttling world leaders and financiers to and fro, bright banners for South Africa and India stand out against the snowy backdrop, a preview of the parties and exhibitions...
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Wed, Jan 22 2014 4:25 PM
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Everything Is Terrible: Kristen Stewart Will Star in a Romantic Take on '1984'
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably noticed that kids these days are obsessed with dark, dystopian novels, especially their film adaptations. There's the Hunger Games franchise, Divergent , The Bone Season , and Ender's...
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Thu, Jan 16 2014 1:30 PM
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How ScarJo Endorsing a Soda Machine Became an International Controversy
Scarlett Johansson has decided that she'd rather represent homemade bubbles than international development. After several years as a global ambassador for Oxfam, she's chosen to part ways with the development and disaster relief organization over...
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Thu, Jan 30 2014 8:01 AM
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Exile on Jihad Street: Can Mali’s World-Famous Music Festival Ever Go Back Home?
Not even Mali’s music-hating Islamists can the keep the country’s musicians from throwing a king-sized show. Musicians in the country have been embattled since 2012, when a triumvirate of militant Islamist groups groups seized power of the country and...
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Thu, Jan 09 2014 9:34 AM
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Africa
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Seven Times Lady Grantham Completely Embarrassed Herself in Sierra Leone
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 An errant charity trip to Sierra Leone may have just ruined Downton Abbey forever. Elizabeth McGovern, who plays Cora, the Countess of Grantham on the hit British show Downton Abbey...
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Thu, Jan 23 2014 1:56 PM
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Hey Lorde, Just Who Are These Maybach-Driving New Zealanders?
It's been a little over a year since the debut of " Royals ," the smash hit from the waifish New Zealand songstress Lorde, and what a year it's been. Having charmed both critics and listeners around the world, the anti-opulence, wrong...
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Mon, Jan 27 2014 9:57 AM
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Culture
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Q&A With Filmmakers Behind Oscar-Nominated Tahrir Doc
On Thursday morning, a day before its release on Netflix, The Square was nominated for the Academy Award for best documentary. The film chronicles two and a half years of protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square, following a handful of revolutionaries through...
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Thu, Jan 16 2014 12:50 PM
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Egypt
Why Hezbollah's New Missiles Are a Problem for Israel
Israeli defense officials have eyed the nearly three-year Syrian civil war warily, concerned that a faltering Assad regime may try to offload some of its advanced weaponry to its Hezbollah allies in Lebanon rather than let it fall into the hands of rebel...
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Fri, Jan 03 2014 3:07 PM
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Coming Soon: The Holocaust Documentary Hitchcock Was Almost Too Scared to Make
Before Hollywood dubbed him the "Master of Suspense," Alfred Hitchcock made anti-Nazi propaganda films for the British Ministry of Information. Some of his work from that period, including "Foreign Correspondent" (1940) and "Saboteur"...
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Wed, Jan 08 2014 1:42 PM
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Europe
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Culture
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Germany
Japan and China Pick an Un-Davos-like Fight at Davos
DAVOS, Switzerland — Sparks are flying between Chinese and Japanese officials in this snowy Swiss town -- and not the kind that this business matchmaking soiree is meant to kindle. The two Asian powers have set aside the conference's normal air of...
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Fri, Jan 24 2014 4:34 PM
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