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Polish priest's dismissal exposes rift over dialogue with Jews

JASIENICA, Poland - When the outspoken Polish priest Wojciech Lemanski returned with his parishioners to his church near Warsaw after holding a prayer vigil at the Treblinka Nazi death camp in early July, a dismissal notice awaited him.

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Trade union backs strike action at UK's Royal Mail before float

LONDON - Trade union representatives at Britain's Royal Mail postal service voted unanimously in favor of holding a strike ballot, just months before a planned privatization they strongly oppose.

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Vodka boycott in U.S. spreads on concerns over gay rights in Russia

- Gay rights activists in New York City dumped vodka onto the street on Wednesday to protest new laws in Russia targeting homosexuals, as a growing number of gay bar owners across the United States vowed to stop pouring Russian vodka.

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Boos at Bayreuth, but Brunnhilde shines for Wagner 200th

BAYREUTH, Germany - The gods did not go up in flames but the audience erupted in a fury of booing on Wednesday night as an unorthodox new staging of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle for his 200th birthday at his opera house in Bayreuth came to a near-riotous conclusion.

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Reformist priest praises pope's new tone but wants more

CHICAGO - An Austrian priest who has stirred controversy in Europe with his challenge to Catholic church teachings on taboo topics suggested on Wednesday that women should be allowed to become priests and said that gays need justice, not just mercy.

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UK's multitaskers take to Twitter to swap TV talk: report

LONDON - Tweeting and texting while watching TV is supplanting the traditional water-cooler chat about the previous night's viewing among increasingly media-savvy Britons, the country's telecoms regulator has found.

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Anti-fracking protests Wed, Jul 31 2013

Demonstrators oppose the controversial "fracking" process used in shale gas exploration, as Cuadrilla Resources readies a site to drill a well in West Sussex, England.

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