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Boston Globe
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By day, Alireza Samiei covers banking and insurance for an industry newspaper. By night, he writes a daring online blog about Iran's social and political ills...
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Washington Post
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With two new manuals for high school history and social studies teachers, written in part by Kremlin political consultants, Russian authorities are attempting to imbue classroom debate with a nationalist outlook.
The history guide contains a laudatory..
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BBC News
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Iran's Interior Minister, Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, has started promoting temporary marriage as a solution to the country's social problems.
Shia Islam allows a man and woman to marry for a fixed period of time, ranging from an hour to a century.
A ma..
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FOX News
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A North Carolina mom has two months to get her 250-pound son's weight down before Polk County social workers decide whether to remove him from her home.
Justin Painter is only 7 years old but already weighs more than many adults.
Joyce Painter said..
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Yahoo News
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Iran's judiciary is to launch a fresh clampdown on women it deems are inappropriately dressed and "spreading prostitution," the state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday. "The ones who spread prostitution and intentionally seek to disturb social and..
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BBC News
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Dozens of street children have invaded a five-star hotel food tent and feasted on meals meant for sale at the World Social Forum in Kenya's capital...
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