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    Thailand and New Zealand sound like the best places for prostitutes in Asia and the South Pacific, because they face repressive laws and live miserable and dangerous lives in the rest of the region, where the sex trade is outlawed, according to a new U.N. report that calls for the decriminalization of the voluntary sex trade.

  • **FILE** A group of Vietnamese sex workers are given a class on safe sex by members of an HIV/AIDS outreach network at a karaoke club in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Oct. 12, 2009. (Associated Press)

    U.N. report calls for decriminalizing prostitution

    Thailand and New Zealand sound like the best places for prostitutes in Asia and the South Pacific, because they don't face the repressive laws that exist in the rest of the region, according to a new U.N. report that calls for the decriminalization of the voluntary sex trade.

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  • Workers adjust a sign outside the Olympic Stadium in London on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, to prepare for the upcoming Paralympic Games. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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    The head of the Miss World beauty queen franchise says she plans to travel to Fiji "as soon as possible" to address the problems that turned last month's pageant in the island nation into a fiasco.

  • **FILE** Tarawa atoll, Kiribati, is seen in an aerial view on March 30, 2004. (Associated Press)

    Pacific nation may buy Fiji land as climate refuge

    Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual backup plan: moving the populace to Fiji.

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    Leaders of the Pacific nation of Kiribati a considering an unusual backup plan in case climate change wipes out their entire archipelago: They may move everyone to Fiji.

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    Rep. Peter T. King: Iraq releases 3 security contractors

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  • Interests clash as climate talks near end in South Africa

    As a global climate conference enters the home stretch, it's likely that the 194 nations represented will reach some consensus on how to respond to the emissions that are warming the planet.

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