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A Tajikistan-born former researcher at the University of Western Australia has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to inciting terrorism abroad.
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Female activists in four major cities in Kazakhstan have taken to the streets to protest the government’s ongoing program to gradually raise the retirement age for women in the Central Asian nation.