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BBC News
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A leading Turkish gay rights group will fight a court ruling that ordered it be closed for "violating morality".
Lambda, which has become increasingly vocal in calling for gay, lesbian and transgender rights in Turkey, says it will appeal against the d..
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BBC News
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China's human rights record is getting worse, not better, because of the Beijing Olympics, a rights group says.
According to Amnesty International, China is clamping down on dissent in a bid to portray a stable and harmonious image ahead of the Games i..
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CNN
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The parish priest, a robust Spaniard in his 60s, accompanied the nuns. The group quietly observed rescue workers dig through mounds of stones and upturned tiles.
The priest said the church was more than 300 years old. He still couldn't understand how t..
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Journal Sentinel Online
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This summer's distressingly low water levels on the upper Great Lakes have a lot of people scratching their heads, but a group of Canadian property owners is pointing the finger straight at the Army Corps of Engineers - an agency it says is largely respon..
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BBC News
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The Vatican has urged all Catholics to stop donating money to Amnesty International, accusing the human rights group of promoting abortion.
The Vatican also said it was suspending all financial aid to Amnesty over what it said was the group's recent ch..
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Al Jazeera
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Demands
"We won't make an exception for anyone. If you need money to release our prisoners we will give you all you need up to the last dirham we have."
This is the first time demands have been made by Johnston's purported kidnappers since he was..
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BBC News
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A leader of Colombia's Farc rebel group has ruled out releasing a high-profile sick hostage and cast doubt on a French humanitarian mission sent to treat her.
Rodrigo Granda suggested the Farc had not agreed to grant access to Ingrid Betancourt and wou..
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BBC News
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Two Colombian women hostages freed by the Farc rebel group have been reunited with their families at an airport near the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
Consuelo Gonzalez met her granddaughter for the first time, while Clara Rojas said she felt she was be..
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CNN
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A Spanish court on Wednesday convicted 47 people who either belonged to or collaborated with the Basque separatist group ETA through a series of shadowy organizations, CNN partner station CNN+ reported.
The 47 were sentenced to a combined 500 years in..
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Yahoo News
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A U.S.-based workers' rights group said it found "brutal conditions" and labor violations at eight Chinese plants that make toys for big multinationals, and called on the companies to take steps for better standards.
China Labor Watch said in a report..
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Al Jazeera
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Giuliano Amato, the Italian interior minister, said the shootings appeared to be the latest chapter in a long-running dispute between involved two mafia clans in Calabria, home to the 'Ndrangheta organised crime group.
Shots heard
Police found the..
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BBC News
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A shadowy group in France has issued the French government with an unusual ultimatum: raise the price of wine or blood will flow.
The group's name is the Crav, which stands for nothing more threatening than the Union for Viticultural Action in the Lang..
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Al Jazeera
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In south Lebanon, a 40-member force made up of the Fatah group pf Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and three Palestinian Islamist factions deployed at the northern entrance of Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp.
Ain al-Hilweh was scene of deadly cl..
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CNN
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Three Americans and a Tibetan-American were detained on Mount Everest on Wednesday as they called for independence for Tibet and protested against the Beijing Olympics, an activist group said.
The protest was organized by Students for a Free Tibet, whi..
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News.com.au
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THE Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) said it will not help fund an advertising campaign to promote the Federal Government's controversial Work Choices laws.
Prime Minister John Howard yesterday called on Australian business to help fund the Liberal..
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CBS News
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A group of top level lawmakers from around the globe signed a resolution Thursday urging a new agreement limiting greenhouse gas emissions by 2009 to succeed the Kyoto protocol, which is set to expire in 2012. The resolution reached after a two-day for..
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Yahoo News
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After all these centuries, Zeus may have a few thunderbolts left. A tiny group of worshippers plans a rare ceremony Sunday to honor the ancient Greek gods, at Athens' 1,800-year-old Temple of Olympian Zeus. Greece's Culture Ministry has declared the cen..
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Alter Net
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The Iraq Study Group may not have a solution for how to end the war, but it does have a way for its corporate friends to make money...
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Guardian Unlimited
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A church group that protests at military funerals around the country will be barred from services for an American Indian soldier on a reservation, tribal officials say...
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Globe and Mail
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It has turned into a clash between skin and Scripture — and it's pitting a group of spandex-wearing fitness buffs in Montreal against an Orthodox sect of observant Jews...
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