Please don't burn or stone women, pleads Canadian town
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Immigrant guidelines ruffle Muslim feathers The town of Herouxville in Quebec, which boasts one immigrant family among its 1,300 inhabitants, is at the centre of a race-relations rumpus after issuing a town council declaration on culture which reminds newcomers that "stoning [women] in public, burning them alive, burning them with acid, circumcising them etc", is an absolute no-no.â¦
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Community leaders in Australia protest over government plans to curb child abuse in Aboriginal areas.
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&gt; BAGHDAD, Iraq - Authorities insisted on Thursday that they won&#39;t give in to militants&#39; demands to free female Iraqi prisoners despite the plea of a tearful British hostage
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The top Israeli settler council called on Monday for settlers to resist evacuation under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza withdrawal plan, but urged only non-violent action.
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Police in eastern England are telling local women to wear nice knickers and have a wax before getting fuelled up on booze, newspapers reported.
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Canadian officials and police are  ignoring a spate of brutal attacks against aboriginal women, at  least 500 of whom have vanished or been murdered over the last  30 years, Amnesty International said on Monday.
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The Toronto Film Festival urges visiting stars to respect anti-smoking laws at this year's event.
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DAWSON CITY, Yukon Territory - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is suggesting some Dawsonites have to be told that a fairly common practice of relieving themselves in the streets is neither proper nor healthy.  Sgt.
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GILBERT, Minn. - Promoting this town's proud history is one thing. Naming the town's festival Gilbert Whorehouse Days is another thing entirely.  A group of angry citizens showed up at a City Council meeting Tuesday to protest the event.
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People in a small town in Western Canada are so fed up with the rotten state of their main road that they came up with an unusual form of protest -- a calendar that shows them posing nude in the potholes.
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By Courtney Sherwood, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb.
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The lesson in Asif  Kapadia&#39;s &quot;Far North&quot; is that when an independent and obviously  resourceful woman from the tundra says that a shaman told her  she would bring harm to anyone foolish enough to get close to  her, it&#39;s wise to listen.
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DALHOUSIE - Residents of Dalhousie are blocking the three main roads into their town to protest the Lord government&#39;s plan to downgrade the town&#39;s only hospital.
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By Tran, Tu-Uyen "I don't want to be a bad boyfriend - I keep calling you up but you don't want to hang out anymore," Grand Forks public works chief Todd Feland told an audience of mostly regional government officials Wednesday.
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Canada condemned a new outbreak of violence in Sudan's western Darfur region and urged the government in Khartoum to accept the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers.
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MAXINE WATERS. I write to urge you to take immediate action to protect the life of Father Gerard Jean-Juste, the pastor of Saint Claire Church in the Delmas area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as well as
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CALEDONIA, Ont. (CP) - Police have arrested Gary McHale, the Richmond Hill, Ont., man who organized a protest Saturday at the site of the ongoing aboriginal occupation in Caledonia, Ont.