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A bisexual male TV talk show host in Pakistan whose on-screen character is a married woman has managed to slip mention of sex into his dialogue without upsetting the Islamic fundamentalists (no mean feat at the best of times). An excerpt from the NYT story: Ali Saleem may have devised the perfect, if improbable, cover for [...]
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The big one — the only one, in NATO's eyes – is the killing of civilians by ISAF forces. An excerpt from the BBC story: A spokesman for the Nato-led force, said efforts were under way to reduce civilian deaths in military operations. But he said Nato had killed far fewer people last year than the Taleban, [...]
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In a country where only 0.1 per cent of the population has access to the Web, there are 4.6 million land lines and mobile phones in Iraq. That makes mobile phones the informal news medium of choice for Iraqis when it comes to stuff like … oh, hanging videos. :) Some excerpts from the BBC story: The [...]
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