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MECCA, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Police in Saudi Arabia say they arrested 57 young men in Mecca for flirting with girls and playing loud music and dancing to attract the girls' attention.
The men were arrested this week at shopping centers in Mecca on the orders of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which enforces Saudi Arabia's conservative brand of Islam, Wahhabism, the BBC reported.
Earlier in the month, Saudi authorities enforced a ban on the sale of red roses used to mark Valentine's Day, which is viewed in Saudi Arabia as a "pagan Christian holiday" which encourages relations between the sexes outside of marriage, the BBC reported.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Actor Matt Bomer, star of the U.S. television series "White Collar," confirmed during the weekend he is gay and has a longtime partner.
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MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C., Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Authorities in South Carolina said they were investigating the disappearance of a woman whose fiance was found dead in the couple's home near Charleston.
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VESPER, Wis., Feb. 13 (UPI) --
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said it will not disturb a black bear that picked a drain tunnel to hibernate.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Israel's military says major cuts in defense spending will hit air-defense missile systems and halt production of tanks and a new armored personnel carrier.
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