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• Indian capital locked down for tense torch relay

  - 2008-04-16

  NEW DELHI AFP — India's capital was barricaded and flooded with police and soldiers on Thursday for the latest and most sensitive leg of the protest-hit Beijing Olympic torch relay. With India home to more than 100,000 Tibetan refugees, including exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and radical youth...

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• Eldest daughter of Martin Luther King dies

  - 2007-05-16

  MIAMI AFP — Yolanda King, the eldest child of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, has died, family friends said on Wednesday. King, 51, who pursued her father's civil rights advocacy and worked as an actress, died in California. The cause of death was not given. ...

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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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• French socialists hold primary to choose presidential candidate

  - 2006-11-16

  PARIS AFP — Members of France's Socialist Party voted to choose their candidate for presidential elections due next April, with the favourite Segolene Royal wanting a clear-cut victory over her two rivals. A total 218,711 card-carrying activists in the party were being called on to cast ballots in 4,000 party...

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• Former Australian FM, ex-Finnish president could win Nobel

  - 2006-10-12

  OSLO AFP — Former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans and Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari are the favourites to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Norwegian TV said. The winner will be announced in Oslo at 11:00 am (0900 GMT) on Friday. Evans could win the award "for his role in the...

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• 15 activists held after European Social Forum demo in Athens

  - 2006-05-06

  ATHENS AFP — Greek police detained at least 15 people during a large anti-war demonstration in Athens peppered with firebomb assaults and vandalism outside foreign embassies and government offices. The unrest flared as several thousand activists participating in this year's European Social Forum marched in front of the Greek...

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• US nuclear reprocessing shipment heads through France by road

  - 2004-10-07

  CHERBOURG, France AFP — A lorry suspected to be carrying a shipment of plutonium from US weapons arsenals, to be reprocessed in southeast France, left a retreatment plant in the country's north under heavy escort, a French television journalist at the scene said. The 140 kilogrammes (300 pounds) of...

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• In 1971, President Nixon worried about young war opponent Kerry - tapes

  - 2004-03-17

  WASHINGTON AFP ? In 1971, then president Richard Nixon was concerned about a young Vietnam veteran and peace activist named John Kerry, today the Democratic presidential candidate, according to tapes. "We'll keep hitting him, Mr. President," White House special counsel Charles Colson says to the late president on the...

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