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• Australian plan to create 'homophobia-free zones' attacked

  - 2008-08-24

  SYDNEY AFP — Australia's gay capital Sydney came under attack from a rebel city councillor on Monday over its plans to create 'homophobia-free zones' in the heart of its bar and nightclub precinct. The City of Sydney Council this month voted five-to-four for the special designation for parts of...

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• Egyptian Christian killed by Muslim neighbour: security official

  - 2008-06-06

  CAIRO AFP — A Coptic Christian youth has been stabbed to death by a Muslim neighbour in southern Egypt, the latest violent incident between members of the two faiths, a security source said on Friday. Milad Ibrahim Farag, 20, was attacked overnight in the village of Dafash by Khamis...

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• Palestinian pilgrims stuck in Egypt refuse to be moved to camps

  - 2007-12-30

  EL-ARISH, Egypt AFP — Over 1,000 Palestinian pilgrims stuck in Egypt refused Sunday to be moved into camps until they are given clearance to return to Gaza without going through Israel, a security source said. "They are refusing to get off the buses and the situation is very tense,"...

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• Egypt detains seven after sectarian clash

  - 2007-12-16

  ISNA, Egypt AFP — Seven Muslims were detained in southern Egypt on Sunday after setting fire to a church and shops owned by Christians in retaliation for the alleged rape of a Muslim girl, a security source said. The seven set fire to 13 shops owned by Egyptian Christians...

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• Gaza journalists sit-in for press freedom

  - 2007-08-26

  GAZA CITY AFP — Dozens of journalists staged a sit-in in Gaza on Sunday, protesting against pressure on the media by the Islamist Hamas movement that took over the territory in mid-June. More than a 100 reporters gathered in front of the journalists union building in central Gaza City,...

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• US urges Russia to back off in war memorial dispute with Estonia

  - 2007-05-02

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States called on Russia Wednesday to back off an escalating dispute with Estonia that saw pro-Kremlin militants attack the former Soviet republic's consulate in Moscow. Estonia closed the consulate after youth activists who had been blockading the diplomatic compound for days scuffled with the...

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• Belarus security forces thwart opposition rally

  - 2007-03-25

  MINSK AFP — Belarussian security forces beat back dozens of opposition activists protesting against President Alexander Lukashenko on the first anniversary of unprecedented rallies in this former Soviet republic. Hundreds of protesters were attempting to enter the vast Oktyabrskaya Square in central Minsk, site of a four-day rally following...

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• Maoists kill MP, five others during riotous Indian spring festival

  - 2007-03-04

  NEW DELHI AFP — Maoist rebels shot dead a federal MP and five others Sunday while they attended celebrations of the Hindu festival of Holi in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, police said. Parliamentarian Sunil Mahto was killed instantly in the attack, which occurred in the village of...

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• Prince's girlfriend puts paparazzi under the lens: report

  - 2007-01-14

  LONDON AFP — Paparazzi trailing Kate Middleton, the girlfriend of Britain's Prince William, are under the lens after her lawyers secretly filmed the photographers as evidence for a possible complaint, The Daily Telegraph reported. The lawyers for Middleton, 25, have written to the Press Complaints Commission PCC after filming incidents...

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• China closes down HIV/AIDS group

  - 2006-10-19

  BEIJING AFP — A non-government organization in China dedicated to fighting HIV/AIDS and other health problems said it had been shut down because local authorities wanted to silence it. Chang Kun, a volunteer and organizer of the Xuelianhua AIDS project based in the western region of Xinjiang, said he was...

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