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Somali lawmakers reject troops, then fight
Mar 17 2005 10:14PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Somali lawmakers-in-exile fought each other with clubs, chairs and walking sticks Thursday after a hotly disputed vote rejecting the use of troops from neighboring countries in a force planned to secure a transitional government in Somalia.
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UNICEF head seeks help for Zimbabwe kids
Mar 17 2005 1:35PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Zimbabwe's children are paying the price of attempts to punish their government for its human rights violations, the head of UNICEF said Thursday.
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Students protest for democracy in Nepal
Mar 17 2005 11:09AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Police in riot gear broke up pro-democracy demonstrations in the Nepalese capital on Thursday and detained dozens of students protesting King Gyanendra's seizure of power last month.
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Nigeria proposes tribunal for Sudan
Mar 17 2005 1:50AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Nigeria has proposed setting up an African-run tribunal to prosecute human rights violators and war crimes suspects from Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region, a possible bid to break an impasse in the U.N. Security Council.
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Angola's returning refugees see little aid
Mar 17 2005 12:45AM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Three years after the end of a brutal civil war, Angola's government is failing to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees returning to a devastated homeland riddled with land mines, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
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