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Palestinian-American journalist Noor Wazwaz shares her experience of being detained after flying into Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport. Wazwaz reports that she was detained for more than four hours, followed by an interrogation by Israeli security personnel who accused her family of terrorist activity based on national and ethnic origin.
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There are some jobs in Russia that invite a daily stream of hate mail and even threats. Nina Nazarova at Afisha recently spoke to four individuals who have encountered particularly aggressive harassment—an LGBT-rights activist, a former US ambassador to Russia, a lawyer, and a journalist—and asked them what it’s like to live and work in an atmosphere of hatred.
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A ban on drones in Tokyo public parks came into effect on April 28, and comes after a drone carrying trace amounts of radioactive substances was discovered on the roof of the prime minister's official residence in central Tokyo on April 22. The culprit? A former nuclear power plant employee and aspiring cartoonist from Obama.
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For greedy politicians in the two poorest states of Central Asia, foreign aid is the gift that keeps on giving. Not for the first time, funds from The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria have been squandered by graft-prone state agencies in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
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