Marrakesh snake charmers' spell fails to work on activists
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The men working in Marrakesh's Djemma el Fna square may be able to charm the snakes and tourists, but their magic fails to work with the animal rights activists pushing to have the practice banned as cruel.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Her full, traditional veil, which stands out even here in the religious capital of the socially conservative Shi'ite south, makes it hard for Anwar Uboud-Ali to see on the campaign trail.
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TEHRAN -- Emad Baghi is a human rights activist who spent three years in prison for his writings. Shadi Vatanparast is a promoter of underground Iranian rock bands who, in the semi-privacy of her office, throws off her government-mandated headscarf. And Fazel Mehbadi is a mullah who preaches a message that's dangerously dissident in the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran: ...
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Morocco counted votes on Saturday after a record low turnout in parliamentary elections, with Islamists saying they expected to boost their representation thanks to a popular anti-corruption message.
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Environmentalists win legal round to protect a reptile, but off-roaders push to keep desert areas open.
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ADEN, Yemen  - Yemeni Islamists have defaced  billboards promoting an Arab diva and an Islamist lawmaker  dubbed her planned concert as an "invitation for vice," raising  concern among liberals in the conservative Arab country.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - Perhaps they should have seen it coming, but Afghanistan's traditional fortune tellers are under fire from religious elders who have branded their ancient practice as backward and un-Islamic.
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Tribal animosities are flaring anew just as security forces seem stretched too thin to react.
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Despite ongoing turmoil between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, ecologists are finding time to give endangered sea turtles a boost in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Viewpoint: Author Germaine Greer stirs up a storm with her criticism of Steve Irwin as vulgar and self-delusional. But she fails to understand his Aussie boisterousness and  his efforts to protect animal habitat
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NEW YORK - Snake's alive! A boa constrictor was recovering Friday at a Manhattan animal shelter, one day after it was injured by a man who was waving the six-foot snake at passers-by on a Brooklyn street, authorities said.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Two years before he allegedly killed a Dutch filmmaker in the name of radical Islam, Mohammed Bouyeri volunteered at his local community center and was a promising member of the second generation of Moroccan immigrants to the
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Like an electioneering candidate, Steve Zaillian's version of ÂAll the KingÂs MenÂ makes a lot of promises but fails to deliver the goods.
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Neurosis has its Masonic tendencies. Thereâs an obsession with craft, and with mysticism â or at least the puniness of manâs will against larger forces.
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The relations of French officialdom have been uneasy of late. First there was the matter of the headscarf, which has been followed by a row over whether or not to ban broadcasts by the Al-Manar (The Beacon
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The nicknames of dates sold to break the Ramadan fast are a key gauge of the political mood on Cairo's streets.
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The veil that cloaks the head of Zafran Mukanwali is a modest symbol of a potentially dramatic shift in religious affiliation in Africa.