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China is all set to give out its own first-ever peace prize, the Confucius Peace Prize, on Thursday - an apparent knock against the Nobel which is to be awarded to imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo on Friday. China, along with 18 other countries, is planning to boycott the ceremony in Oslo, but is conducting a widespread crackdown on dissent at home in the days prior.
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Dull but important:
The Irish have received their sentence for all crimes economic. Finance Minister Brian Lenihan announced the harshest budget in the 90-year history of the state, which is to last four years and ranges from cutting the minimum wage to the salaries of top officials.
In Italy, proposed cuts to arts spending led to scuffles outside the opera La Scala.
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Just because:
Kenyans like their beer. Tusker, the most popular brand, advertises under the banner "My Country, My Beer," and every night the bars stay open until the last man leaves. But a new law, if implemented, would change all that. Bars would close at 11, supermarkets couldn't sell alcohol and, gulp, kids wouldn't be allowed to even step foot in a bar.
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Wacky:
The most expensive sandwich ever. A musician who went into a central London sandwich store to grab something to eat had a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin worth $1.9 million stolen.
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| GlobalPost invites: On Thursday Dec. 9 at noon, GlobalPost will host a free web-chat with Jason Rezaian in Tehran. He'll answer questions about the increasingly tense situation in Iran - the WikiLeaks allegations, the bomb targeting nuclear scientists, and the shadowy Stuxnet virus.
The chat is open to the first 100 respondents. If you'd like to join us, please email passport@globalpost.com for instructions. |
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