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Activists say it’s time to do away with Le Sauvage, a Belgian festival’s traditional blackface character

In Belgium, people have dressed up in blackface at festivals for decades. But in recent years, a push to end the practice is gaining steam.

Turkish Islamist protesters shout slogans against Noel celebrations as they hold an inflatable Santa Claus toy during a demonstration at Beyazit Square in Istanbul December 26, 2013. The sign (front, 2nd) reads: "Christmas is a blow to our Islamism".

Santa has a complicated relationship with his hometown

Culture

Iranian dissident cartoonist warns the West about shaking hands too quickly on a nuclear deal

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