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  • WORLDNOTES, Lithuania, China, Uganda, Global, Iraq, and Cuba

    WORLDNOTES, Lithuania, China, Uganda, Global, Iraq, and Cuba

    June 26, 2009

    Lithuania: Anti-gay legislation protested Parliament last week banned discussion of homosexuality in schools and in literature available to children. Viewing the legislation as discriminatory, gay rights and human rights groups including Amnesty International launched a campaign...

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  • Venezuela and US to restore diplomats

    Venezuela and US to restore diplomats

    June 26, 2009

    Original source: Venezuela and the United States have agreed to restore their ambassadors more than nine months after President Hugo Chavez expelled the US envoy from Caracas. Mr Chavez signalled that he still had major differences...

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  • No peace, no silence in Colombia

    No peace, no silence in Colombia

    June 26, 2009

    New documentation is available on the precariousness of life and pall of terror weighing upon Colombia. Why has deadly conflict persisted for decades? Why have rich nations turned a blind eye, or lent a hand? Britain’s...

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  • Angry wife puts hubby to sleep, cuts off testicles

    Angry wife puts hubby to sleep, cuts off testicles

    June 26, 2009

    BEIJING, June 19 -- To protect her marriage, a gynecologist in Xiaoxian, Jiangxi province, sliced off of her hubby's testicles. Li, a hardworking doctor, takes good care of her two children. But her husband surnamed Huang...

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  • Hunger drives man to jail

    Hunger drives man to jail

    June 26, 2009

    BEIJING, June 18 (Xinhuanet) -- A jobless Taiwanese national stole a box of cotton swabs to get arrested again and have free lunch in jail. Tsou Hao-lan from Taipei first stole a pair of shoes Sunday....

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