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By last September, the Army had had just about enough of infantryman Jacob Andrews, so it gave him a general discharge and a one-way bus ticket home to Kansas City. He had plenty to think about on the 30-hour trip from Fort Drum, N.Y.
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Colonel Hossein Hosseinzadeh, chief of the police department’s detectives bureau in Isfahan, was quoted in Iranian media as saying, “If the women at the party had worn their hijab properly, they might not have been persecuted.”
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Darwish Mohammed Fidou deserted his unit after he was given orders to fire directly on civilians. His story bolsters growing reports of dissent within Syria’s military.
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Chinese activists clone a popular Indian anti-bribery portal, but doubts linger about how long they will be allowed to operate.
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TIME has learned that a prosecutor tasked with probing the CIA — John Durham, a respected, Republican-appointed U.S. Attorney from Connecticut — has begun calling witnesses before a secret federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., looking into, among other things, the lurid Nov. 4, 2003, “homicide,”…
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Having made their point in Toronto, Melbourne and Montreal, the ‘sluts’ now plan to walk in New Delhi as part of a global campaign against sexual violence.
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The Chinese have played with homophones and near homophones (usually differing only by a tone) for a long time. (They’re a staple at the Chinese New Year.) More recently, this feature of Chinese has been particularly useful for evading the censors.
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Scenes of unrelenting degradation, torture and sexual humiliation? All in a day’s work for the film censors tasked with deciding which of the 14,000 films, videos and computer games submitted each year are unacceptable for British audiences.
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An update to the tragic story of Mohammed “Mo” Al Nabbous, founder of the Benghazi webcast “Libya Alhurra TV,” killed in a firefight this March at age 28: his baby daughter was born this week. Mo’s widow writes,
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As a consequence of the wikileaked releases, military documents in the public domain now acknowledge that fifteen children were imprisoned, at some time or another, at Guantánamo (see table below). This is three more than the twelve the State Department acknowledged to the public after our earlier report on the subject, and seven more than the eight the State Department reported to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
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