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• Sarkozy praise for Tunisian rights 'progress' sparks outrage

  - 2008-04-29

  PARIS AFP — French President Nicolas Sarkozy's remark that "the sphere of liberties" in Tunisia is improving sparked outrage Tuesday among human rights groups and the Socialist opposition in France who accuse the North African state of torturing dissidents and blocking press freedoms. "His unacceptable declaration has led him...

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• Thousands rally in fresh Armenian election protest

  - 2008-02-21

  YEREVAN AFP — Tens of thousands of opposition supporters demonstrated in Armenia's capital Yerevan for a third day Friday vowing to keep protesting until the results of a presidential election are overturned. Opposition leader and former president Levon Ter-Petrosian sought to encourage a crowd of about 30,000 in the...

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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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• Clinton confronts anti-war liberals

  - 2007-06-20

  WASHINGTON AFP — Democratic 2008 front-runner Hillary Clinton on Wednesday bluntly said Iraq's government had failed, and condemned President George W. Bush on stem-cell research, as she wooed liberal activists. Senator Clinton attracted sporadic boos from peace campaigners angered by her past positions on the war, but repeated ovations...

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• Haitians' deaths at sea further fuels immigration debate in US

  - 2007-05-08

  MIAMI AFP — Activists pressing for relaxed US immigration policies toward Haitians say the deaths of dozens of migrants in shark-infested waters last week underscore the urgency of the issue. "It gives new impetus to the debate on Haitian immigration," said Jean-Robert Lafortune of the Miami-based Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition....

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• Giuliani woos conservatives in 2008 run

  - 2007-03-02

  WASHINGTON AFP — Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Friday launched a hard-sell effort to woo conservatives to his 2008 White House run, admitting he did not see "eye to eye" with them on some social issues. Giuliani told activists he was part of the Republican "revolution" wrought...

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• Guinean authorities arrest 'hundreds': activists

  - 2007-02-18

  CONAKRY AFP — Guinean authorities have arrested hundreds of opposition supporters since the imposition of martial law by embattled President Lansana Conte last week, activists said. "Hundreds of people have been arrested at night over the last few days, generally by order of the ruling party's leaders," Ben Sekou...

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• Argentine president blames paramilitaries for kidnappings

  - 2006-12-29

  BUENOS AIRES AFP — President Nestor Kirchner has blamed ciminal elements linked to the past military dictatorship for the kidnapping of two witnesses in the trials of suspected human rights abusers, one of whom has been released. Kirchner said the recent abductions were meant to "put the breaks on the...

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• Jacob Zuma: a president-in-waiting rises from the ashes

  - 2006-09-20

  JOHANNESBURG AFP — South Africa's former deputy president Jacob Zuma is an anti-apartheid veteran whose presidential ambitions have been resurrected after his exoneration in a sensational corruption case. Zuma, who narrowly escaped political oblivion in May when he was acquitted of the rape of a young AIDS activist, on Wednesday...

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