Turkmen Leader Scolds Presenters on Makeup
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ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Turkmenistan's authoritarian leader has scolded national television presenters for wearing too much makeup and told them to look natural.   "Female presenters wear too much whitening powder...
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A Muslim leader blames Jack Straw's comments about veils for an attack on a woman in Liverpool.
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State propaganda called him "the light of new Turkmen literature" and even after his death the writings of late President Saparmurat Niyazov take precedence over other subjects in Turkmenistan's schools.
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The leader of the main opposition party in the Bahamas scolded the government Monday for not acting sooner to remove the country's immigration minister over his seemingly preferential treatment to Anna Nicole Smith.
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The British ambassador to Uzbekistan could be facing the sack for his outspoken criticism of the regime in Tashkent which he accuses of widespread torture of opponents.
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The BBC is criticised after rock star Iggy Pop used a racist term during coverage of the Glastonbury Festival.
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Uzbekistan's president threatened on Friday to crack down on Western aid groups whom he accuses of engaging in opposition-oriented political activities in the tightly controlled ex-Soviet country.
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Key ministers and aides in South African  President Thabo Mbeki's government were heckled by delegates on  Sunday as the ruling African National Congress prepared to open  a leadership congress that could see Mbeki lose control over  the party.
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There are YouTube videos that may be described as "un-tasteworthy in the extreme," and then there are those that draw the attention of world leaders for precisely that reason. Today, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith of Australia issued an (audio statement) condemning a video that accuses his country of racism, according to Agence France-Presse: "It is un-tasteworthy [...].
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Turkmenistan's new president has called for the abolition of state-funded concerts and dances in his honor during tours of the country, state media reported Saturday.
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One of their legislators was suspended for fraud. Another outraged women by saying only brainless businessmen would hire "a lady of child-bearing age." And their most prominent face is a former BBC talk show ...
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The Malaysian government's plans to reduce the number of Eurasian faces in advertisements have triggered outrage among models and presenters in the multicultural country.
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A politician was charged Friday with inciting hatred and threatening public safety after suggesting that fellow Kurds would rise against the state and fight if Turkey ever attacked their Kurdish brethren in neighboring Iraq.
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Among the locals, retired truck driver Pyotr Gagarin says he's known as a man who doesn't mince his words. Now he's known around Russia as a man who called his governor "scum" and wound up accused of extremism.
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ASHGABAT  - Polls closed in Turkmenistan at parliamentary elections denounced as a farce by exiled opponents of President Saparmurat Niyazov and seen as likely to reinforce his isolation from the outside world.
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The Speaker of Britain's House of Commons ticked off Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday for accusing the opposition head of misleading MPs -- deemed a grave offence in the mother of parliaments.
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Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Thursday he asks Muslim women visiting his office to remove their veils, drawing criticism from some Muslim groups.