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• World leaders call for action on World AIDS Day

  - 2007-11-30

  PARIS AFP — Activists and global leaders used World AIDS Day Saturday to warn against complacency in fighting the disease and called on governments to fill a multi-billion-dollar funding gap. "We have made tangible and remarkable progress on all these fronts. But we must do more," United Nations Secretary...

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• Bush 'deeply concerned' at Russia arrests

  - 2007-11-26

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush said Monday he was "deeply concerned" at a crackdown on opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of elections, and called for their release from detention. "I am deeply concerned about the detention of numerous human rights activists and political leaders...

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• Iran leader says open to criticism

  - 2007-10-10

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran's supreme leader said the country's political establishment should be open to criticism, following a rare protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state radio reported on Wednesday. "We should be wary of the day when our young people in universities do not have the motivation to raise...

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• Myanmar junta rounds up Suu Kyi supporters

  - 2007-05-15

  YANGON AFP — Myanmar authorities arrested 10 supporters of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi here Wednesday, bringing to 40 the number rounded up in just two days, an activist said. The apparent crackdown comes ahead of a May 27 review of her house arrest, which is expected...

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• Defiant Zimbabwe opposition chief heads to hospital

  - 2007-03-13

  HARARE AFP — Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday defiantly vowed his push to topple President Robert Mugabe would go on as he headed to treatment for a beating that he received in police custody. Amid rare criticism towards Mugabe from South Africa and a demand by US...

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• Zimbabwe opposition chief held, activist shot dead

  - 2007-03-11

  HARARE AFP — Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was arrested and an activist shot dead on Sunday after riot police thwarted a planned mass protest against President Robert Mugabe's government. Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change MDC party, was one of dozens of MDC officials and...

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• Kuwaiti Shiite leader urges removal of top Sunni cleric

  - 2007-01-25

  KUWAIT CITY AFP — A leading Kuwaiti Shiite cleric has called for the removal of top Sunni cleric Sheikh Yussef Qaradawi as head of the international federation of Muslim scholars, accusing him of spreading dissent among Muslims. "We affirm that the interest of Islam, bridging the gap between its...

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• Tibetans protest Chinese leader's visit to India

  - 2006-11-19

  DHARAMSALA, India AFP — Hundreds of Tibetans have held protests to demand Chinese President Hu Jintao hold talks on the status of their Himalayan region during his state visit to India. About 500 activists began fasting in this northern Indian alpine town, home to the Dalai Lama since 1959 when...

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• Former US white supremacist leader dies in prison

  - 2006-11-06

  MIAMI AFP — Sam Bowers, a former leader of the racist White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan KKK, died in a Mississippi prison where he was serving a life sentence for the 1966 killing of a black activist, authorities said. The 82-year-old convict died Sunday in the Mississippi State...

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• US presses Indonesian leader over rights activist's murder case

  - 2006-10-18

  WASHINGTON AFP — Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is under US pressure to get to the bottom of a leading human rights lawyer's murder case which suggested a cover up and links to the powerful national intelligence agency. The human rights arm of the US Congress held a staff briefing...

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