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Weinstein Effigy to be Torched at British Bonfire Party

An effigy of disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein will be torched this weekend as part of a British town's Bonfire Night celebrations, organizers revealed on Wednesday.

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Banksy Holds Balfour 'Apology Party' for Palestinians

Secretive British street artist Banksy held an event to apologize for the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration on Wednesday outside his hotel in the occupied West Bank.

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India's Top Court to Hear Woman in 'Love Jihad' Case

India's Supreme Court has ordered a 24-year-old woman whose marriage to a Muslim man was annulled at her Hindu father's request to give evidence in person, saying only she could decide her own fate.

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Legal Ballet to End New York Prohibition on Dancing

Dancing is technically illegal in thousands of bars, clubs and restaurants in the city that never sleeps, but New York campaigners are finally in sight of getting the law overturned.

The "cabaret law," passed in 1926, requires public spaces that sell food and drink to acquire near impossible-to-obtain permits to authorize dancing indoors.

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Culture in Crosshairs of Sisi's Egypt

In movie theaters, concert halls or out on the streets, culture in Egypt is faced with increasing curbs as the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi expands censorship, critics say.

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Taiwan Holds Asia's Largest Pride Parade as It Waits for Gay Marriage

A sea of rainbow flags and glitzy costumes filled downtown Taipei Saturday as tens of thousands marched in Asia's largest gay pride parade, the first since Taiwan's top court ruled in favour of gay marriage.

The island looks set to become the first place in Asia to legalise gay marriage after the constitutional court said in May that laws preventing same-sex unions violated the guarantee of freedom of marriage.

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S. African Pair Jailed for Forcing Black Man into Coffin

A South African judge on Friday handed down jail terms of 19 and 16 years to two white farmers who filmed themselves forcing a black man into a coffin and threatening to burn him alive.

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Art Exhibit in Lebanon Takes on Civil War's Old Wounds

Zena El Khalil's art exhibit has tapped into wounds that are more than 40 years old in war-scarred Lebanon.

"Sacred Catastrophe: Healing Lebanon" is being hosted in a landmark building in the center of Beirut that is a powerful reminder of the country's 1975-1990 civil war. Pockmarked and riddled with bullet holes, the building stands on the former demarcation line that bisected Beirut into warring sections: east and west, Christian and Muslim.

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Venezuelan Opposition Wins European Rights Prize

The European Parliament on Thursday awarded the prestigious Sakharov human rights prize to the beleaguered Venezuelan opposition, calling for a "peaceful transition to democracy" in the crisis-hit country.

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SGBL Supports the Embellishment of the Walls of Tripoli Public Schools

Solidarity being a major focus of SGBL's sponsorship policy and as part of its actions of social responsibility, SGBL committed in the project of embellishment of the walls of the schools of Tripoli, North Lebanon, in order to contribute to improve the daily life of the populations of the neighborhood, a press release said.

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