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• Swimming with giant humpback whales

  - 2008-08-23

  VAVA'U, Tonga AFP — The southern humpback whale lies suspended vertically near the surface just metres away from me, its ghostly white underside silhouetted against the deep blue of the Pacific Ocean. The giant mammal is nearly 16 metres (50 feet) long and weighs around 3.5 tonnes, but a...

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• France to urge UN to decriminalise homosexuality

  - 2008-05-17

  PARIS AFP — France plans to ask the United Nations to push for homosexuality to be decriminalised around the globe, a government minister said Saturday, as gays and lesbians worldwide marked the International Day Against Homophobia. Human Rights Minister Rama Yade told a delegation of French gay and lesbian...

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• US urges Zimbabwe to set presidential runoff date

  - 2008-05-14

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States on Wednesday urged Zimbabwean authorities to set a date for a presidential run-off election after they announced it would be postponed for as much as 10 weeks. "If a run-off is going to happen, there certainly is an obligation on the part of...

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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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• Japan govt, media groups concerned as shrine film pulled

  - 2008-04-01

  TOKYO AFP — A controversial documentary on a Tokyo war shrine looks unlikely to be screened in Japan amid pressure from right-wingers, prompting the government and media groups to cry foul on Tuesday. The local production office of Chinese director Li Ying said the decision by three cinemas in...

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• China crackdown flouts Olympic rights vow: activists

  - 2008-01-07

  BEIJING AFP — China's arrest of a prominent rights campaigner is part of an increasing crackdown on critics that breaks promises it made to land the Olympics, said activists who called for world pressure on Beijing. The arrest of Hu Jia, who was taken from his Beijing home on...

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• Indian police block landless protest march

  - 2007-10-29

  NEW DELHI AFP — Police prevented thousands of poor and landless farmers and tribals from marching towards the federal parliament building in the Indian capital Monday to demand land rights. An estimated 25,000 people from 15 of India's 29 states have converged in New Delhi after marching 600 kilometres...

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• Another Egypt editor faces trial over Mubarak rumours

  - 2007-09-25

  CAIRO AFP — Another Egyptian newspaper editor is facing prosecution for writing about President Hosni Mubarak's health, a judicial source said on Tuesday, a day after Washington voiced concern over such trials. A lawyer brought the case against Al-Badil's editor Mohammed Sayyed Said accusing him of "spreading false news"...

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• Pakistan police released in exchange for extremists

  - 2007-05-20

  ISLAMABAD AFP — Hardline clerics said Sunday that they had released two Pakistani policemen held hostage at a mosque here, after a deal was struck with authorities to free four extremists. The clerics said two other policemen still held captive would be released only when a total of 11...

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• Communist Vietnam legalises Bahai faith

  - 2007-03-21

  HANOI AFP — Vietnam has legalised the Bahai faith, which authorities say has about 7,000 followers in the communist country, the state-controlled media reported Wednesday. Nguyen Huu Oanh, vice chairman of the government's Religious Affairs Committee, "presented a certificate to ratify religious activities of the Vietnam Bahai religious community,"...

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