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A South African traditional king from Nelson Mandela’s Thembu ethnic group began a 12-year prison sentence Thursday for arson, kidnap and assault of his...
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Peru warned the public Tuesday against its popular New Year tradition of burning national hate figures in effigy, saying the smoke poses a cancer...
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Bare-foot, with rattles on his ankles and wearing a colourful beaded ceremonial skirt, a white boy with short blond hair makes shamanic-like dance moves...
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Guatemalan Catholics gathered across the country as part of a centuries-old tradition to “burn the devil”, lighting bonfires in the street to mark the...
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As millions elsewhere celebrate Halloween in fancy costume dress, for the Misak people of southeastern Colombia the coming of November is a solemn occasion...
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Traditional rite-of-passage ceremonies in South Africa left 32 boys dead and more than 150 hospitalised, local authorities said Tuesday, as the annual initiation season...
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Ukrainians led by President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday donned the country’s traditional embroidered dress — a yearly celebration that has become a manifestation of...
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In the middle of the dusty California desert, a group of Cahuilla Native Americans gather, as they have for generations, for the annual agave...
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More than five million barefoot devotees paraded a centuries-old icon of Jesus Christ through Manila Friday in a loud, heaving paroxysm of religious fervour...
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His figure-hugging black speedos at the ready, fast-food vendor Marco Fois is preparing to uphold a New Year’s tradition and take the plunge into...