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• Israeli president courts mystic Jews over rape charge

  - 2007-02-02

  JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli President Moshe Katsav is courting local leaders of Kabbalah, the mystical offshoot of the Jewish faith, following the announcement he faces an indictment for rape, the local press has said. Katsav, whose entourage now includes a battery of lawyers, this week visited one of the...

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• Israel leaders boycott ceremony hosted by embattled president

  - 2006-11-01

  JERUSALEM AFP — Senior Israeli officials stayed away from a ceremony hosted by President Moshe Katsav, who faces a possible rape indictment, marking the assassination of premier Yitzhak Rabin. Of the 600 people invited to take part in the annual commemoration, only around a third attended Wednesday. Among the absentees...

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• Corruption trial of top Israel lawmaker opens

  - 2006-10-17

  JERUSALEM AFP — The corruption trial of Tzahi Hanegbi, a top Israeli lawmaker and close ally of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, has opened behind closed doors in Jerusalem, judicial sources said. Hanegbi, chief of parliament's powerful foreign affairs and defense committee, is accused of corruption, fraud, abuse of authority and...

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• Freedom elusive for exiled Chinese Uighur Muslim leader

  - 2006-10-07

  WASHINGTON AFP — Twenty months after stepping out of prison, freedom remains elusive for Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled leader of China's Uighur Muslim minority and a top Asian nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. With about 100,000 Uighurs, including her three sons, languishing in jail for their political and religious...

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• US Muslims plagued by discrimination after 9/11 attacks

  - 2006-09-03

  DEARBORN, United States AFP — Discrimination and harassment by law enforcement have come to plague American Muslims in the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11. There have been suspicious looks, slurs, physical attacks, extra screening at airports and arrests on groundless charges. And it seems to be getting...

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• Tunisia refuses entry to press freedom group leader

  - 2005-11-17

  TUNIS AFP — Tunisian authorities refused to allow the head of press freedom group Reporters Without Borders RSF into the country to attend the UN communications and Internet summit. The Paris-based group said that its secretary general Robert Menard was refused entry at Tunis airport. Menard told colleagues...

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• Third day of protests and boycott threat over Liberian election

  - 2005-11-14

  MONROVIA AFP — The party of Liberian presidential candidate George Weah boosted protests against alleged vote fraud in last week's run-off, presenting their petition to the US embassy and vowing a legislative boycott. "There is a strong belief in Liberia today that the elections were rigged on behalf of...

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• Shiites fume over Bremer veto threat; Bush defends Iraq war

  - 2004-02-17

  BAGHDAD AFP ? Iraq's Shiite leaders warned top US civilian administrator Paul Bremer against blocking Islamic law as US President George W. Bush defended his war with Iraq, vowing to "defend America every time." On the ground, three Iraqi civilians, including a 10-year-old girl, were killed when a stray...

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