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*Myanmar president in first visit to Washington. *Washington wants to foster ally on China's border. WASHINGTON, May 20- President Barack Obama will walk a fine line between fostering a U.S. ally in China's backyard and trying to defend human rights on Monday when the president of Myanmar becomes the first head of his country to visit the White House in 47 years.
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*Myanmar president in first visit to Washington. *Washington wants to foster ally on China's border. WASHINGTON, May 20- President Barack Obama will walk a fine line between fostering a U.S. ally in China's backyard and trying to defend human rights when the president of Myanmar becomes the first head of his country to visit the White House in 47 years on Monday.
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DAKAR, May 7- Equatorial Guinea's elections this month are unlikely to be free as the organising body is controlled by the government and the work of observers will be severely restricted, three human rights organisations said on Tuesday.
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DAKAR, May 7- Equatorial Guinea's elections this month are unlikely to be free as the organising body is controlled by the government and the work of observers will be severely restricted, three human rights organisations said on Tuesday.
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"The independent international Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic wishes to clarify that it has not reached conclusive findings as to the use of chemical weapons in Syria by any parties to the conflict," it said in a statement.
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"The independent international Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic wishes to clarify that it has not reached conclusive findings as to the use of chemical weapons in Syria by any parties to the conflict," it said in a statement.
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GENEVA, May 5- U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria's civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday.
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JUBA, May 4- South Sudan's police have detained a newspaper editor without charge and refused him access to a lawyer for three days, he told a Reuters reporter who visited him in a crowded police cell on Saturday.
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*Canada's Loblaw says will add "building integrity" to audits. DHAKA, May 3- Police investigating the collapse of a Bangladesh factory building that killed more than 500 people have arrested an engineer who warned the day before that the eight-storey complex was unsafe.
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WASHINGTON, May 2- The United States on Thursday lifted another set of sanctions against Myanmar to support reforms in the formerly army-ruled country, while retaining visa and investment bans against individuals accused of human rights abuses.
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SEOUL/ WASHINGTON, May 2- North Korea sentenced an American citizen to 15 years of hard labor on Thursday for crimes against the state, prompting a U.S. call for his amnesty in hopes of avoiding him becoming a bargaining chip between the two countries.
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By Mitra Taj and Teresa Cespedes. LIMA, May 1- Peru's mining minister is winning a crucial cabinet battle by swaying President Ollanta Humala to water down a law that gives indigenous groups more say over new mines and oil projects- and a deputy minister will likely resign in protest.
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*Obama says Guantanamo situation "not sustainable". WASHINGTON, April 30- Saying it was damaging to U.S. interests to keep holding prisoners in legal limbo at Guantanamo, President Barack Obama renewed an old vow on Tuesday to close the camp, where about 100 inmates are on hunger strike to protest against their years in detention without trial.
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*Sri Lanka intensifying crackdown on dissent-Amnesty. *Space for criticism decreases, climate of fear in Sri Lanka. *Urges Commonwealth members to pressure Sri Lanka* Sri Lanka government condemns Amnesty report By Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal.
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*Three British citizens say were tortured in UAE. LONDON, April 30- The president of the United Arab Emirates met Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday on a visit to Britain where Prime Minister David Cameron is under pressure to raise allegations that UAE police tortured British citizens.
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BEIRUT, April 29- Syria's prime minister survived a bomb attack on his convoy in Damascus on Monday, as rebels struck in the heart of President Bashar al-Assad's capital. Six people were killed in the blast, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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*ISTANBUL- Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to attend a symposium on global alcohol policies. *ISTANBUL- Shares in low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines. *ALMATY- Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to attend a ministerial conference on the " Istanbul process" on Afghanistan.
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April 24- The United Nations' top human rights official urged Angola's government on Wednesday to reduce the huge disparities between rich and poor that have developed in the oil-rich country despite considerable progress since the end of a 27- year civil war in 2002..
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*Rights group accuses Myanmar authorities of crimes against humanity. LUXEMBOURG, April 22- The European Union agreed on Monday to lift all sanctions on Myanmar, except for an arms embargo, despite a Human Rights Watch report which accused authorities of complicity in the mass killing of Muslims in the west of the country last year.
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WASHINGTON, April 22- The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear Daimler AG's appeal of a lawsuit claiming the company violated human rights against workers at an Argentina plant in the 1970 s. Workers or relatives of workers at an Argentina- based plant operated by Mercedes-Benz, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler, sued over the alleged conduct.