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| Aged lady faces Saudi lashes |
| Saudi Arabia has sentenced a 75-year-old widow to 40 lashes and four months in prison for mingling with two young men who were reportedly bringing her bread, sparking new criticism of Saudi Arabia’s ultraconservative religious police and judiciary.
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| Scarf bar on US woman |
| A Muslim woman was asked to leave her place in line at a credit union in Southern Maryland and be served in a back room because the head scarf she wore for religious reasons
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| Effort on to avert Pak showdown |
| Pakistan once again stands at a dangerous flashpoint of its nascent parliamentary democratic history with chances of an imminent showdown between ruling Pakistan Peoples
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| YouTube bars music videos |
| Music fans will no longer be able to watch their favourite videos on YouTube after Google blocked viewings during a dispute over licensing.
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| Lanka suicide blast kills 15 |
| A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed 15 people and wounded 35, including Sri Lanka’s telecommunications minister, during a Muslim festival in the island’s
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| Don’t rely on Bush statements: Obama |
| Calling into question the legitimacy of all the signing statements that former President George W. Bush used to challenge new laws, President Obama yesterday ordered exec
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