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Charles Oliver | 1.27.2005 12:00 AM

Dubai is one of the most liberal Arab nations, but there's a limit to its freedom, as two tourists found out. An unidentified Italian man and an Egyptian woman were fined for hugging and kissing each other in the back of a taxi. The man was forced to pay $3,000, and the woman $500.

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