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Sacred Muslim Month of Ramadan Starts

The world's nearly 1.5 billion Muslims on Saturday began Ramadan, the holy month of dawn-to-dusk fasting and prayers.

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Kids are the Break-Out Stars of Cannes Film Festival

Young actors are making waves at this year's Cannes film festival -- often in films that are hardly suitable children's viewing.

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Gitai Film Warns of Israel's 'Suicide' at Cannes

A new documentary warns of Israel's slow "suicide" if it pushes ahead and annexes large swathes of the West Bank.

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Homosexuality: From the Death Penalty to Gay Marriage

Same-sex marriage, which Taiwan's top court ruled in favor of Wednesday, is currently legal in around 20 countries around the world, 13 of which are in pioneering Europe.

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Portrait of Myanmar's 'Buddhist Bin Laden' Chills Cannes

Barbet Schroeder spent months with Ugandan dictator Idi Amin at the height of his power, when corpses would wash up every morning on the shores of Lake Victoria and Kampala was rife with rumors that he was eating his opponents.

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Indonesian Men Caned for Gay Sex before Jeering Crowd

Two Indonesian men were caned Tuesday in front of a jeering crowd as a punishment for gay sex, in a first for the Muslim-majority country where there is mounting hostility towards the small LGBT community.

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Quality of Life on Rise for Many Africans, Report Says

Africans are seeing a steady improvement in the quality of their lives, with some countries even nearing world averages, says a wide-ranging report out Monday on the continent's future.

While large portions of the continent's 1.2 billion people live in poverty, many of Africa's 54 nations have made significant progress in health, education and standard of living.

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Gay Lebanese Scrap Pride Event Because of Threats

Gay Lebanese celebrated privately Sunday the closing ceremony of the first gay pride rally in their country and the Arab world, fearing reprisals from police or Islamists.

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Ivanka Trump Says Saudi Progress on Women 'Encouraging'

U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka said Sunday that ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia has made "encouraging" progress in empowering women but more freedom is needed.

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Indian Woman Cuts off Penis over Rape Attempt

An Indian woman cut off a man's penis after he allegedly tried to rape her at her house in the southern state of Kerala, police said on Saturday.

The 23-year-old law student was at her residence in the state capital Thiruvananthapuram late Friday when she says she was attacked by the 54-year-old man, who had claimed to her family to be a religious guru.

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