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• Activists aim to break Gaza blockade by boat

  - 2008-07-31

  NICOSIA AFP — Two boatloads of several dozen activists are to leave Cyprus next week bound for Gaza in a bid to break an Israeli blockade of the poverty-stricken Palestinian territory. "We want to bring it to the world's attention that Gaza is virtually an outdoor concentration camp," Greta...

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• Iran's Ahmadinejad arrives in Rome for food summit: agency

  - 2008-06-03

  ROME AFP — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Rome on Tuesday to attend the UN food agency summit amid protests from Jewish groups and Italian activists. Ahmadinejad's plane touched down at Rome's Ciampino airport shortly after 9:00 am, the airport news agency reported. The Iranian leader said...

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• Tired of paying through the nose, Americans try praying at the pump

  - 2008-05-04

  WASHINGTON AFP — At a Shell gas station in Washington, Rocky Twyman and an unusual group of activists were mad as hell about soaring fuel prices. "Last week, this station was 3.51 dollars. Now it's practically 3.60. So it's gone up nine cents in one week," Twyman said as...

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• Police arrest animal rights activists at Indian bullfight

  - 2008-01-18

  NEW DELHI AFP — Police arrested three animal rights campaigners for protesting bullfighting in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Press Trust of India reported Friday. Ingrid Newkirk, president of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals PETA, an international animal welfare group, was taken into...

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• Japanese whalers take two activists captive

  - 2008-01-15

  SYDNEY AFP — Japanese whalers said Tuesday they are holding captive two activists who "illegally" boarded their vessel in the Southern Ocean, in a dramatic escalation in the battle between the two sides. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said its members boarded the ship to tell the whalers of...

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• Airline pilots call for talks with climate change protesters

  - 2007-08-18

  LONDON AFP — The British Airline Pilots' Association called Saturday for talks with demonstrators staging an ongoing climate change protest at Heathrow airport west of London. Several hundred activists have set up temporary home near the village of Harlington, close to Heathrow, in a tented village called the "Camp...

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• Four more arrested over Myanmar protest

  - 2007-02-26

  YANGON AFP — Four more people have been arrested in military-ruled Myanmar over a small protest last week against high food prices, an activist said Tuesday, bringing to nine the number in custody. The protest by about 25 people in a Yangon market on Thursday was the first time...

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• Indonesia's police to seek US help over activist's death

  - 2006-11-22

  JAKARTA AFP — Indonesia's police said they will seek assistance from the United States to speed up their probe into murder of respected Indonesian human rights activist Munir Said Thalib. National police chief General Sutanto said he was committed to solving Munir's death. "We are going seek technical assistance from...

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• Microcredit campaigners claim success in helping world's poorest

  - 2006-11-01

  WASHINGTON AFP — A program aimed at helping the world's poorest people with small business loans is well on its way to achieving its goal of reaching 100 million people, US-based activists said. Campaigners with the Microcredit Summit Campaign set an ambitious goal in 1997 of advancing tiny loans to...

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• US wants full probe into Indonesian rights activist's murder

  - 2006-10-20

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States will press for a no-holds-barred probe into the murder of respected Indonesian human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, the State Department said. It made the statement after Munir's widow Suciwati held talks Thursday with acting deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian affairs...

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