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  • Russian police detain activists, foes at gay rally

    Gay-rights campaigners and their opponents clashed at an unsanctioned rally in the Russian capital on Saturday, but a heavy police presence in Ukraine ... 

  • In Ethiopia, African Union celebrates 50 years

    The African Union on Saturday marked 50 years since the founding of a continentwide organization that helped liberate Africa from colonial masters and ... 

  • 2-child limit for Muslims in parts of Myanmar

    Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists ... 

  • Dozens march in Ukraine's first-ever gay rally

    At least 50 gay rights activists have marched peacefully in the country's first gay rally despite a court ban and attempts to disrupt the event. 

  • Haynes Johnson

    Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81

    When Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala., months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that ... 

  • Gay rights advocates rally in Georgia

    Several hundred activists defending the rights of gays have rallied in the capital of ex-Soviet Georgia, separated by police from a few hundred ... 

  • AP Source: FIFA task force seeks 5-game racism ban

    FIFA's new anti-racism task force will ask football's governing body next week to approve a mandatory five-match minimum ban for any player found ... 

  • Nick Vujicic

    Foreign preacher takes rare turn on Vietnam stage

    The 25,000 people at the soccer stadium and the millions more watching at home waited 90 minutes before the Australian evangelical preacher got to the ... 

  • Barack Obama

    Obama balances threats against Americans' rights

    Forecasting the changing nature of threats against the U.S. for years to come, President Barack Obama says "America is at a crossroads." And so, too, ... 

  • Barack Obama

    Obama sees narrower terror threat, defends drones

    President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror ... 

  • Margaret Chan

    WHO: Scientific red tape mars efforts vs. virus

    International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the ... 

  • Court cancels Ukraine's first gay pride rally

    A Ukrainian court on Thursday banned what would have been Ukraine's first-ever gay pride demonstration, upholding a suit by city authorities, who ... 

  • Afghan students protest women's rights decree

    Hard-line Islamist students protested in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is ... 

  • Report: Crisis stoking anti-migrant bias in Europe

    A top human rights group warned Wednesday that the plight of refugees and migrants fleeing wars and economic hardship is worsening in Europe as ... 

  • WikiLeaks case file fight moves to federal court

    The WikiLeaks organization and a handful of journalists asked a federal judge Wednesday to order greater transparency in the court-martial of an Army ... 

  • Kenya's truth report: Killings, land grabs, graft

    Kenya's president received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report that names the president and his deputy as being among ... 

  • Czech president settles dispute over gay rights

    The Czech president says he will no longer block a university professorship for a gay rights activist who had been critical of him. Milos Zeman has ... 

  • Young objector challenges Israeli army

    The Israeli military has jailed a young man for six months for refusing to serve because of his opposition to Israel's occupation of the West Bank, ... 

  • Sergio Garcia, Tiger Woods

    Garcia denies racism after Woods comments

    Sergio Garcia's feud with Tiger Woods has deepened, with the Spaniard denying accusations of racism after "fried chicken" comments during an awards ... 

  • Richard Durbin, Chuck Schumer

    Senate panel approves immigration bill

    Far-reaching legislation to grant a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary ... 

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