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Following the initiatives of the Afghan Taliban
government - which has banned kite-flying, TV
watching and wearing white socks - Iran is also
cracking down on its more decadent citizens.
Ayatollah Mohammed Yadzi has decreed that dog
walking is to be made illegal, saying that
taking dogs out onto the streets was 'a public
insult', as it was a blind imitation of Westerners.
Send this story to a friend 1 Thrash-happy judges in Saudi Arabia have sentenced a
Filipino man to 75 lashes for possession of alcohol
- after he was caught with two chocolate liqueurs at
an airport.
Send this story to a friend 2 An American teenager ended up in hospital
because of serious head wounds received
from an oncoming train.
When asked about how he received the injuries,
the lad told the police that he was simply
trying to see how close he could get his head
to a moving train before he was hit.
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