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The three were held after they strayed into Iran fr..........................." target="new">Iran charges three detained Americans with espionage - </a><br /><div class="rss-body">TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has charged three detained U.S. citizens with espionage, the official IRNA news agency quoted a judiciary official as saying on Monday.  The three were held after they strayed into Iran fr...........................</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/world_news/Nose_Piercing_Gets_12_yo_Utah_Girl_Suspended_From_School" title="To 12-year-old Suzannah Pabla, piercing her nose was a way to connect with her roots in India. To Suzannah\'s school, it was a dress-code violation worthy of a suspension. \"I wanted to feel more closer to my family in India because I really love my family,\" said Suzannah. 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Perhaps an insular worldview simply cannot stand in a mobile, interconnected world." target="new">Why fundamentalism will fail</a><br /><div class="rss-body">The world\'s major monotheistic religions have all witnessed shifts back to \"basics,\" to the exclusion of all else.  But such hardline insistence on simplistic interpretations leaves them open to fractiousness and infighting.  Perhaps an insular worldview simply cannot stand in a mobile, interconnected world.</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/world_news/NYPD_takes_on_Indians_to_halt_billion_flow" title="MOHAWK NATION OF AKWESASNE -- The NYPD has gone on the reservation -- sending its drug czar upstate to try to help cut off a massive pipeline of pot and ecstasy to the city run by Mohawk Indian" target="new">NYPD takes on Indians to halt billion-$$ flow</a><br /><div class="rss-body">MOHAWK NATION OF AKWESASNE -- The NYPD has gone on the reservation -- sending its drug czar upstate to try to help cut off a massive pipeline of pot and ecstasy to the city run by Mohawk Indian</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/world_news/LA_Sheriffs_Unlawfully_Detain_Photographers_RIghts_Advocate" title="On October 31, 2009 while on the way home from the Hollywood and Highland area, he was unlawfully detained for 25 minutes by LASD Officers for taking two photographs of the turnstiles located at the Hollywood and Western Metro Station — an act that is completely legal and occurred in public space." target="new">LA Sheriffs Unlawfully Detain Photographers\' RIghts Advocate</a><br /><div class="rss-body">On October 31, 2009 while on the way home from the Hollywood and Highland area, he was unlawfully detained for 25 minutes by LASD Officers for taking two photographs of the turnstiles located at the Hollywood and Western Metro Station — an act that is completely legal and occurred in public space.</div></li>');document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a href="http://digg.com/world_news/Powerhouse_Priests_Spar_Over_What_it_Means_to_Be_Catholic" title="The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church traditionally couch even the harshest disagreements in decorous, ecclesiastical language. 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