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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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• Kenya police kill 12 in slum raid against killer sect

  - 2007-06-07

  NAIROBI AFP — Kenyan police on Thursday killed at least a dozen suspected members of a sect blamed for a string of recent murders and beheadings, on the third day of a crackdown in the city's slums. "We have killed at least 12 suspected Mungiki sect members who were...

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• Violence erupts in Gaza; photographer abducted

  - 2007-01-02

  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Violence erupted in the Gaza Strip on Monday, with warring Palestinian factions firing at each other and kidnapping rivals, and gunmen abducting a foreign news photographer. The clashes in the Jebaliya refugee camp near Gaza City broke a weeklong pause in the violent...

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• Blocked UN humanitarian chief accuses Sudan of Darfur cover-up

  - 2006-04-04

  NAIROBI AFP — Blocked by Sudan from visiting Darfur and refugees in neighboring Chad, the UN's top humanitarian official accused Khartoum of trying to hide badly deteriorating conditions there. Jan Egeland said the reasons Sudanese officials gave for denying him access to Darfur and then overflight rights to see...

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• US Muslim group reports rise in reported hate violence in California

  - 2005-07-28

  LOS ANGELES AFP — The number of hate-related incidents reported against Muslims in the US state of California jumped by 39 percent last year, a leading Islamic group said. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said 308 incidents including hate crimes, airport profiling, harassment and discrimination were reported in 2004,...

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• Rape and official harassment still widespread in Darfur: UN

  - 2004-08-30

  NAIROBI AFP ? Rape of women and girls and official harassment are still widespread in Sudan's Darfur region, a senior United Nations official said, as a Security Council deadline for Khartoum to end the violence in the western region expired. Meanwhile in the Nigerian capital Abuja, African Union mediators...

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