Kuwaiti parents angry over 'Satanic' music classes
Cairo - Parents have protested against government-funded music classes outside a Kuwait city school, calling the courses Satanic, a regional daily newspaper reported Monday. Music is not part of our tradition and religion, and we totally reject it...
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2009-11-16 ] Category : [
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Student protests spread in Germany and Austria
Berlin- Protests by university students in Germany and Austria against overcrowding and overwork spread Thursday, with one university calling police to evict demonstrators from a main lecture hall. The students are upset at pressure-cooker courses in...
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2009-11-12 ] Category : [
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Teaching kindergarten kids to play chess
Berlin - Benjamin and Keiko stare deeply into one another's eyes. The boy would very much like to know what she is thinking and she would love to find out what he has up his sleeve. Suddenly, Benjamin makes a move, taking one of Keiko's white pawns w...
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2009-11-12 ] Category : [
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Student protests spread across Austria - Summary
Vienna - Thousands of student demonstrated in Vienna and other Austrian towns Wednesday, calling for better conditions at their universities. Protesters at Vienna University issued an open letter to the government, calling for free access to higher e...
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2009-10-28 ] Category : [
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Student protests spread across Austria
Vienna - Student protests in Vienna have spread to other Austrian universities, media reported, as students were preparing for demonstrations later on Wednesday to call for better conditions at their institutions. For the past days, protesters have s...
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2009-10-28 ] Category : [
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First acting school in the Palestinian territories
Ramallah - Twenty-two-year-old Jasmin is visibly proud to be a student at the first professional acting school in the Palestinian territories. The young Palestinian woman with a green nose ring and her 10 fellow students have just completed their fir...
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2009-10-22 ] Category : [
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US universities hike tuition fees despite recession
Washington - Tuition fees at US universities have risen sharply over the past year as college boards hoped to recoup some of their losses from the country's deep recession, according to a report by a private education group Tuesday. The College Board...
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2009-10-20 ] Category : [
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