Bahrain dissolves rights watchdog
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Bahraini authorities close a non-governmental human rights watchdog whose director has been detained.
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The Palestinian Authority decides to disband a security unit accused of human rights abuses in Gaza.
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Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and his cabinet have resigned, ending weeks of political uncertainty.
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The political movement loyal to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr quit Iraq's ruling Shi'ite Alliance on Saturday, leaving Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition in a precarious position in parliament.
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MANAMA, 22 November 2004 - Bahrainâs King Hamad yesterday ordered the release of a human rights activist who was sentenced to one year in prison earlier in the day for inciting political dissent.
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BUCHAREST  - Romania&#39;s main civil rights group said Monday it was pulling thousands of observers out of the Romanian presidential election after being submerged by an avalanche of fraud allegations.
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Members of the U.N.'s new human rights watchdog formally agreed Tuesday to continue their scrutiny of Israel while halting investigations into Cuba and Belarus &#151; a move that immediately drew fire from the United States.
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Malaysian Premier Abdullah Badawi dissolves parliament more than a year before its term was due to end.
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When a former consultant to Bahrain's government accused the island's Sunni rulers of plotting to rig a vote, he was expelled from the country &#151; but also became something of a cause celebre in the Shiite-Sunni divide.
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Dozens of people are detained following demonstrations in Bahrain after the death of a protester, reports say.
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Thai judges ordered the party of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra disbanded on Wednesday after it was found guilty of breaking election laws.
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Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc said on Friday it was suspending its participation in cabinet because of legal steps being taken against one of its ministers, deepening the sectarian gulf between the country's politicians.
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Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has resigned as head of his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party, triggering the dissolution of its entire executive in the wake of last month's military coup, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Saudi Arabia's de-facto ruler is to boycott a Gulf summit after a row over Bahrain's trade deal with the US.
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Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri of Lebanon resigned yesterday in a sign of deepening divisions within Lebanon&#39;s fragile government over the
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One of the most prominent Shia clerics in Bahrain, Abdul Amir al-Jamri, dies at the age of 69.
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BAGHDAD, July 17 -- The political bloc of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ended its month-long boycott of the Iraqi parliament, a spokesman for the group said Tuesday, a political advance amid sectarian violence that included the slaying of 29 Shiites overnight by men dressed in military uniforms.