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ATLANTA-- When Ed Buckner and his family went to a north Georgia state park to celebrate his son's birthday, he was surprised and concerned to find Bibles in the state-owned cabin he had rented.
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BUDAPEST, May 14- When Hungarian radical right-wingers rallied against a Jewish conference in Budapest in early May, a well-known Protestant pastor hid behind the stage while his wife stepped up to the podium to denounce Jews and Israel.
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SOFIA, May 8- Bulgarians go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament, the European Union member state's eighth free general election since the fall of communism in 1989.. GEOGRAPHY: Bordered to the north by Romania, to the east by the Black Sea, to the south by Turkey and Greece, to the west by Serbia and Macedonia.
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STOCKHOLM, May 7- Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour has won a share of Sweden's $150,000 Polar music prize- awarded in the past to Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan and violinist Yo-Yo Ma- for promoting understanding between faiths as well as for his music.
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*Flag carrier Turkish Airlines bans red lipstick. Turkish Airlines, Europe's fourth-biggest carrier, said the ban was aimed at keeping crews "artless and well-groomed with makeup in pastel tones", as a natural look improved communication with passengers. Turkish Airlines declined a request for further comment.
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*Flag carrier Turkish Airlines bans red lipstick* Ban sparks debate over religious conservatism* Turkey is 99 pct Muslim but has secular constitution* State-run airline is one of world's fastest-growing By Ayla Jean Yackley.
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*Flag carrier Turkish Airlines bans red lipstick. Turkish Airlines, Europe's fourth-biggest carrier, said the ban was aimed at keeping crews "artless and well-groomed with makeup in pastel tones", as a natural look improved communication with passengers. Turkish Airlines declined a request for further comment.
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More than five decades later, Kass might find another sort of celebrity this Saturday when he will have the opportunity to quiz billionaire investor Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. "I had a lot of fun going to the Woodstock music festival on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York in August 1969.
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Hedge fund trader Doug Kass will quiz billionaire investor Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc's annual meeting in Omaha this Saturday.
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More than five decades later, Kass might find another sort of celebrity this Saturday when he will have the opportunity to quiz billionaire investor Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. "I had a lot of fun going to the Woodstock music festival on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York in August 1969.
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More than five decades later, Kass might find another sort of celebrity this Saturday when he will have the opportunity to quiz billionaire investor Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. "I had a lot of fun going to the Woodstock music festival on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York in August 1969.
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DOHA, May 1- Qatar Islamic Bank, the Gulf state's largest sharia-compliant lender by assets, is not expecting to issue more Islamic bonds before 2014, its chief executive said on Wednesday.
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DUBAI/ WASHINGTON, April 29- Washington is signalling its military commitment to its Gulf Arab allies at a time of unfamiliar strain in their decades old partnership.
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President Barack Obama poked fun at the media, his critics and himself on Saturday at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a star-filled event where journalists and celebrities mixed with the Washington elite.
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*Pope mentions Vatican bank for first time since his election. *Francis says Vatican offices are necessary but "up to a point". In an impromptu sermon at a Mass for Vatican employees including staff from the bank, the pope said they should concentrate on the true mission of the Church and that Vatican departments were needed "only up to a certain point".
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China is struggling to get its estimated 100 million religious believers to banish superstitious beliefs.
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CAIRO, April 15- A law that will allow Egypt's Islamist-led state to issue Islamic bonds contravenes the sharia in numerous ways, according to a panel of senior Muslim clerics whose objections are likely to hold up ratification of the legislation.
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Pope Francis, who has said he wants the Catholic Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, could restructure or even close the Vatican's scandal-ridden bank, Vatican sources say.
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*Changes expected in dysfunctional Vatican administration. VATICAN CITY, April 2- Pope Francis, who has said he wants the Catholic Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, could restructure or even close the Vatican's scandal-ridden bank as part of a broad review of its troubled bureaucracy, Vatican sources say.
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As Pope Francis assumes leadership of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, he's got his work cut out for him on many fronts.
