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LEBANON
Rich Feast Through Month of Fasting
By Mona Alami
BEIRUT - Although not a celebration in the traditional sense, Ramadan in Lebanon is a time of joy for many, during which families reconnect and share their wealth with the poor. But in this country of extremes, not everyone has the luxury of celebrating the holy month.
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Thai Buddhists on a Long March to Muslim South
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
SONGKHLA, Thailand - Wearing a floppy cotton cap for shade, an exhausted Sarawut Kunrapang enters the compound of a mosque in the blistering afternoon sunshine. It is the latest stop for this 27-year-old Thai Buddhist in his walk for peace since mid-July from Bangkok.
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MIDEAST
Darkness Dawns at Ramadan
By Eva Bartlett
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip - "It's been days without electricity and water. We can't do anything, and it's unbearably hot now." Abu Fouad, 83, speaks of the power cuts plaguing all of the Gaza Strip.
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MIDEAST
Barriers Rise Between Ramadan Gatherings
By Mel Frykberg
AZZUN ATMA, Occupied Northern West Bank - For seven years Majda Abdul Qader Sheikh, 38, has not been allowed to visit the home of her parents, just a few hundred metres from her house.
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MIDEAST
God Grant Us a Permit to Pray
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
HIRBET DEIR, Occupied West Bank - For Muhammad el-Baradiyeh, 38, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan is always a blessing.
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Food Cartels Feast on Ramadan Profits
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - Opportunistic food traders have been blamed for soaring food prices across the Middle East that have added a financial burden on families observing the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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BALKANS
The Turks Return
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - It's not often that the leading Belgrade daily Politika devotes two of its four foreign pages to the praise of one nation, but it did so for the visit of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last month.
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COSTA RICA
Gays Unite Against Referendum on Civil Unions
By Daniel Zueras
SAN JOSÉ - Human rights organisations and the gay community in Costa Rica have joined forces to try to block a referendum on a law for civil unions between partners of the same sex.
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MALAWI
Vaccination Foiled by Divine Intervention
By Claire Ngozo
LILONGWE - Dowa, central Malawi: medical staff struggle to vaccinate frightened children clinging to their parents, as an armed policeman stands guard.
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Muslim Centre Prevails in Battle over Site Near 'Ground Zero'
By Aprille Muscara
NEW YORK - In a case viewed by many as a test of religious tolerance in the post-9/11 era, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted unanimously Tuesday morning against designating the future location of a Muslim-led community centre as a historic landmark.
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ISRAEL
Women Take On the Orthodox
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - Jerusalem is a city blessed but also cursed by its own holiness. No more so than here at 'Ground Zero', the religious epicentre within the walled Old City, beneath the most disputed holy site -- the Haram al-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary as known to Muslims, Har Habayit or the Temple Mount for Jews.
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Dutch Christian Group Backs Settlements
By David Cronin
NIJKERK, The Netherlands - Sandwiched between giant car and furniture stores on a motorway stop-off, a blue-and-white Star of David flag droops nonchalantly on a stifling summer's day. The factory-like building beside it could easily be missed by a traveller who blinks too soon, yet the work undertaken here in the Israel Centre is far from commonplace.
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Trinidad Seeks to Close the Book on 1990 Coup Attempt
By Peter Richards
PORT OF SPAIN - For the past 19 years, Wendell Eversley has been staging a one-man protest calling for a public inquiry into the failed coup by a group of radical Muslims against the then Trinidad and Tobago government headed by Prime Minister Arthur N.R. Robinson.
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