Associated Press – June 23, 2008 TIJUANA, Mexico – The rusty fence may divide the beaches of U.S. and Mexico, but it can’t break up a yoga class. A few dozen yoga aficionados rolled out their mats Sunday on both sides of the wall between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego. The international group stretched and…

Associated Press – June 24, 2008 BEIJING – Shanghai has banned dissidents, Falun Gong members and other regime critics from leaving the city during the August Olympics, a human rights group said Tuesday. The Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said the Shanghai Public Security Bureau sent notices to dissidents, petitioners and…

By ERIC GORSKI, AP Religion Writer Tue Jun 24, As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement’s biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a “fruitcake interpretation” of the Constitution. The criticism, to be aired Tuesday on Dobson’s Focus on the…

Associated Press – June 23, 2008 YANGON, Myanmar – In helping others, Myanmar’s saffron-robed Buddhist monks have helped themselves. The monks’ critical role in providing relief after Cyclone Nargis has galvanized their ranks and strengthened their political voice – just months after the junta quashed the democracy uprising spearheaded by the monks last fall. The…

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