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Tunisians Get Jail Terms for Eating during Ramadan

A court in northern Tunisia handed one-month jail terms Thursday to four men for eating in public during the Muslim dawn-to-dusk fasting month of Ramadan, a spokesman said.

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Israel Minister Says State Won't Fund Shows with Nudity

Israel's outspoken culture minister is threatening to withhold funding from two productions showing at a top festival because they contain nudity, provoking mockery and claims of censorship.

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Lebanon Officially Bans the New 'Wonder Woman' Movie

Lebanese authorities banned the new "Wonder Woman" movie Wednesday hours before it was due to premiere in the capital and following a campaign against its lead actress, Gal Gadot, who served in the Israeli army, a security official and activists said.

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Iran TV Uses Green Screen to Bypass Headscarf Rules

For Iranian viewers sitting down for this year's primetime historical drama during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, there was a shock: you could see women's hair. 

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Lebanese Ministry Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman Movie

Lebanon's ministry of economy is seeking to ban the 2017 Wonder Woman movie because its lead actress — Gal Gadot — is an Israeli, though a formal request for a ban has not yet been received, a Lebanese security official said Tuesday.

A ban would require a recommendation from a six-ministry-member committee, a process that also has not yet began, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.

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Generation Homeless: Trying to Help Egypt's Street Kids

Barefoot and wearing shabby clothes, the two-year-old wanders through the dirty streets of Cairo alongside her mother, who has also spent all her life without a home of her own.

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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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