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Iranian serial rapist sentenced to death
TEHRAN - An Iranian man has been convicted and sentenced to death for kidnapping and raping an estimated 340 young girls, media reports said on January 27. "Along with my wife I used to hunt girls under 12 years old," the man, who was only identified as 33-year-old Behrouz, was quoted as confessing. His wife, identified as Anahita, was also given an unspecified jail term for working as his accomplice. The crimes took place in different Iranian cities, and the sentence passed down by a court in the central city of Isfahan.
Kurdish rebels release kidnapped policeman
ANKARA - Turkish Kurdish rebels have released a Turkish policeman in northern Iraq after keeping him hostage for almost four months, human rights activists said on January 27. The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party abducted the officer, Hakan Acil, in early October near a small village in the southeastern province of Sirnak, which borders Iraq and Syria.
Turkey on energy alert in bad weather
ANKARA - Turkey was on the alert on January 27 for a possible energy shortage after harsh winter conditions reduced natural gas supplies from Russia and Iran, officials said. The shortfall forced the authorities to cut the natural gas flow for several hours on January 26 to several factories in the northwest, Turkey's industrial hub. The biggest concern is electricity production, 44 percent of which depends on natural gas, he said.
Girl shot dead by Israeli troops in Gaza
GAZA CITY - A nine-year-old Palestinian girl was shot dead by Israeli troops in the southern Gaza Strip late on January 26. "The young girl got lost in the [border] area to the east of Khan Younis and Israeli troops opened fire at her," a security source said. An Israeli military source said that soldiers had opened fire at a suspicious shadow carrying a bag, without seeing a young girl and after firing warning shots. The girl was killed by two bullets.
Algeria, Libya expel 6,600 Africans
NIAMEY - Libya and Algeria last year expelled more than 6,600 illegal African immigrants, the majority of them citizens of Niger, a government official in the capital of Niger said on January 26. "Since January 2005, some 6,641 West African nationals, most of them from Niger, were expelled from Libya and Algeria," Lawai Dan Azoumi, secretary-general of the Agadez provincial government said.
Egypt may have eradicated the polio virus
GENEVA - Scientists believe that the world's first cases of polio occurred about 5,000 years ago in Egypt, but now that nation has apparently eradicated the virus. The Geneva-based World Health Organization says that no new cases of poliomyelitis have been reported in Egypt during the past year, the Boston Globe reported on January 25. Only four nations that have yet to stop transmission: Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Egypt frees most Islamists detained during polls
CAIRO - Egypt freed on January 26, 260 supporters of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood arrested during the November-December parliamentary polls, a human rights organization said. Another 450 had been freed a week earlier, which leaves only 26 of the hundreds of Muslim Brothers rounded up during the polls behind bars, the organization said.
Turkey denies new radar for US use
ISKENDERUN, Turkey - The Turkish government is denying claims that a new radar base being built in a southern province bordering Syria will be used by the US military. The radar will be situated on Amanos Mountain in Hatay province, TurkRadio.us reported. The new facility has raised questions in parliament, where the opposition Republican People's Party recently tabled a question calling for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to respond to claims that US forces would use the facility, making it a potential threat to Turkey.
US used wrong terrorist photo
WASHINGTON - The CIA said on January 26 that it has been circulating the wrong photo for more than a year in the search for one of its most-wanted terrorists, NBC News reported. The US government had been offering a $5 million reward for help in the capture of Abu Khabab Al Masri, 52, an expert in explosives and poisons. NBC News has reported that the photo that it showed was not Abu Khabab Al Masri, but Abu Hamsa Al Masri - a militant imam currently on trial in England on charges including incitement of racial hatred and calling for the killing of non-Muslims.
Germany gives 10,000 guns to Afghans
KABUL - Germany has donated 10,000 Walther P-1 pistols to the Afghan security forces. The weapons were handed over at a ceremony in the Afghan capital Kabul on January 24. They were all 9mm German-made Walthers from the German Armed Forces. The donation is the result of a weapons request made by the US embassy in Berlin one year ago.
Re-jailed Agca's family on hunger strike
ISTANBUL - The Turkish family of Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot Pope John Paul II, began a hunger strike on January 26 to protest against Agca being returned to an Istanbul jail. Agca, 48, was freed on January 12 after serving nearly 25 years in jail, but a week later, a court ruled that he should serve more time for killing a Turkish journalist in 1979. He will remain in prison until January 2010. Agca's sister, Fatma Yildirim, speaking from her home in Malatya, said that 15 family members, including nine children as young as 4 had started the hunger strike to demand his release.
British troops in Afghanistan to peak at 5,700
LONDON - British troop numbers in Afghanistan will peak this year at 5,700 following the deployment of thousands of fresh soldiers as part of a NATO expansion there, British Defense Secretary John Reid said on January 26. The figure includes 3,300 additional troops for a special task force charged with reconstruction and fighting the drug trade in the volatile southern Helmand province.
Israeli cabinet holds early Holocaust meeting
JERUSALEM - The Israeli cabinet, with all its members wearing black, held a special meeting on January 26 at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem for the UN day of remembrance for the Holocaust victims. The day is to be marked around the world on Friday in line with a UN resolution adopted last November to mark the January 27, 1945, liberation of the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the date this year falls on the Jewish Sabbath, the cabinet decided to meet on the eve of the event.
Egypt to mediate Lebanon, Syria on security
CAIRO - Egypt's intelligence supremo is due to conduct a mediation between Syria and Lebanon that will include the issue of weapons in Palestinian camps, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora said on January 26. "Palestinian weapons in camps should be brought under control and should not leave these camps," he said, in reference to the refugee camps in Lebanon that house an estimated 400,000 Palestinians.
Sudan aid worker killed in copter crash
KHARTOUM - A Sudanese woman working for a humanitarian agency was killed when a helicopter evacuating aid workers from a conflict zone in Darfur crashed shortly after takeoff, her employers announced on January 26. "A nutritionist attached to the aid agency GOAL, Miss Hadja Hamid, was killed ... in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, when a UN emergency evacuation helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff," the agency said.
Afghan soldiers killed, tanker blown up
KABUL - Suspected Taliban fighters ambushed an army post in southeastern Afghanistan and killed two local soldiers, while a bomb destroyed a tanker supplying fuel to US-led troops, defense officials said on January 26. The army post was attacked late on January 24 in troubled Paktika province. The army blamed "the enemies of Afghanistan", a term commonly used to refer to guerrillas from the Taliban regime that was ousted four years ago.
Bird flu found in northern Cyprus
NICOSIA - Bird flu has been detected in poultry in the Turkish-held north of Cyprus, but it was not yet clear whether it was the highly infectious strain of the virus that is deadly to humans, a senior Turkish Cypriot official said. It is the first time that avian influenza has been spotted in Cyprus, the Mediterranean island that lies only 65 kilometers (40 miles) off Turkey, where the virus has already claimed four lives.
US jury convicts man of violating Iraq sanctions
WASHINGTON - A US jury has convicted a Palestinian born man of violating US sanctions against SADDAM HUSSEIN'S regime and other laws but deadlocked on the charge that he had tried to sell the names of US spies to Baghdad. The federal jury in Indianapolis found Shaaban Hafez Ahmed Ali Shaaban, 53, a US resident, guilty on six of seven counts including conspiracy, acting as an agent of a foreign government without registering and doing business with Iraq despite strict US sanctions, authorities said on January 25. Shaaban was also convicted of securing US citizenship illegally.
Pakistan hunts entrepreneurs over Taliban financing
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani investigators said on January 26 that they are searching for two brothers who allegedly used their food businesses to finance Taliban rebels in Afghanistan. Interpol issued arrest warrants for Abdul Bari and Abdul Baqi, both Afghans, who had been operating from the northwestern Pakistani border city of Peshawar since 2003, they said. Pakistan has also frozen the accounts of the two companies run by the pair, the foreign ministry said.
Hijacked fishing boat freed in Somalia
TAIPEI - One of the four Taiwanese fishing boats hijacked off the coast of Somalia last year was released on January 26, the government said. "Chung Yi 218 had safely set sail from Somali waters and was on its way home," the fisheries administration said. The ship and two other vessels, the Cheng Ching Feng and Hsin Lien Feng 36, were seized separately on August 16 while the Feng Rong 16 was hijacked in November. "The crews on the other three ships are safe and we will continue the rescue efforts," the statement said.
Israel to evict two West Bank outposts
JERUSALEM - The Israeli authorities on January 25 handed eviction orders to Jewish settlers living in two illegal outposts built on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, the army said. "We have notified residents of these two unauthorized outposts that they have until Sunday to evacuate the premises by their own free will, after which time they will be removed by force," Lieutenant Adam Avidan said. The two wildcat outposts are in the northern West Bank area of Nablus, one near the hardline settlement of Elon Moreh and the other near Itzhar.
Lapid resigns as head of Israel's Shinui
JERUSALEM - Tommy Lapid, chairman of Israel's Shinui party, resigned as party leader on January 25, saying that he was stepping down from political life. Speaking at a press conference, the 73-year-old politician explained that his secular party "in its present format does not have the public's trust", adding, "As for me, I am turning over a new page in my life."
Since ailing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon set up the centrist Kadima party in November, Shinui has slumped in the opinion polls and looks set to disappear altogether from political life in the March general elections. Lapid's resignation came just one day before senior party members were set to vote on a resolution to oust him.
Sharon's son to be sentenced on Valentine's Day
TEL AVIV, Israel - An Israeli court will on February 14 sentence stricken premier Ariel Sharon's son Omri, who was convicted last year on charges of corruption, legal sources said on January 25. The Tel Aviv district court has been hearing witness testimony since January 23 in order to weigh up what punishment to mete out to the disgraced former MP who was found guilty in November.
Iran ready to 'investigate' Nazi death camps
TEHRAN - Iran said on January 25 that it was willing to send a team of "independent investigators" to visit former Nazi deaths camps across Europe. "We welcome the proposal by British Prime Minister Tony Blair to visit the Holocaust sites," Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said. "We are ready to send teams of independent investigators to the places Mr. Blair speaks of," he said, but said that these teams would comprise of people "who are not sympathetic to those who committed the crimes and who are not sympathetic to the Zionist regime [Israel]".
Jordanians jailed for trying to join insurgents
AMMAN - Four Jordanians on trial for trying to join the insurgency in Iraq were sentenced on January 25 to between four and five years in jail, judicial sources said. The state security court, a military tribunal, condemned Ayad Al Aswad, 34, and Omar Al Falugi, 19, to five years behind bars for trying to infiltrate Iraq via Syria to fight against US troops. But the court reduced the teenager's sentence to three years "to give him a chance to mend his ways".
Libya releases 14 political prisoners
CAIRO - Libyan authorities have freed 14 political prisoners, Human Rights Watch announced on January 25, describing the releases as a very positive step. Eight of released detainees were supporters of the Libyan city of Benghazi's Al Ahly football club who were arrested in 2000 over their involvement in riots that broke out after their team lost a game.
As well as smashing cars and ransacking shops, some of the disgruntled supporters chanted political slogans critical of the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi, resulting in 17 arrests. Three of them were sentenced to death but their sentences were commuted and others were later released.
Snow, ice slows Turkey
ANKARA - Air, road and sea transport throughout Turkey were in a state of semi-paralysis on January 25 after three days of bitter cold and heavy snows, with more freezing weather forecast. Authorities have barely been able to keep the international airports in Istanbul and capital Ankara open, and many flights to other Turkish cities have been canceled. Sea lanes between Istanbul and nearby cities have also been shut down, and ferry transport across the Bosphorus between the city's European and Asian sides has been disrupted.
Convicted Iranian publicly hanged
TEHRAN - An Iranian man convicted of murder has been publicly hanged in Isfahan, the Iran newspaper reported on January 25. The 27-year-old man, only identified as Arash, had stabbed another young man, Ehsan Hajmomen, in a fight in 2003, the report said.
Turkey 'in breach' on military objector
STRASBOURG, France - The European Court of Human Rights on January 24 found Turkey in breach of international law for having given a conscientious objector repeated prison terms. The plaintiff, Osman Murat Ulke, 35, an active member of anti-war organizations, was jailed in 1997 for refusing to join the military, which he was subsequently forced to do. He was later convicted eight times for refusing to don his uniform and twice for desertion. In all he spent some 700 days in jail. Wanted by the Turkish authorities, Ulke now lives in hiding.
Morocco arrests seven after boat capsizes
RABAT - Seven Algerian would-be immigrants were arrested on the northern Morocco coast after their boat sank in stormy seas in an attempt to reach the Spanish coast, a local official said on January 24. Moroccan security forces overnight Monday picked up the group that had set off from Ben Saf in northern Algeria in an inflatable boat. In a similar incident along the same coast the previous day, three people died and five others were reported missing when their inflatable craft carrying 57 Moroccans capsized.
British men in court over 'bomb Al Jazeera' memo
LONDON - Two men appeared in court in Britain on January 24 in connection with the alleged leak of a memo in which US President George W. Bush is said to have talked about bombing Al Jazeera television. David Keogh, 49, a former cabinet office civil servant, and Leo O'Connor, a 42-year-old former parliamentary researcher, are both accused of breaching Britain's Official Secrets Act. A judge at London's Central Criminal Court released the pair on bail and told them to reappear at a hearing on April 25 when they will enter pleas to the charges. Tuesday's hearing was purely administrative.
Fatah campaign staffer killed
NABLUS, West Bank - A member of the ruling Fatah faction's campaign team in the largest West Bank city was shot dead on January 24 on the eve of the Palestinian election. Ahmed Hassuneh, 36, who was working on the campaign for Fatah's main candidate in Nablus, Ghassan Al Shakaa, was shot in the head in the early hours after confronting gunmen who had opened fire on his house.
Gamal Mubarak says he will not run
CAIRO - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's son Gamal denied rumors that he was being groomed for succession in an interview published on January 24 and insisted that he had no desire to run in the next presidential poll. "I neither have the intention nor the desire to be a candidate, my words are very clear," the 42-year-old told the state-owned daily Rose El Youssef.
WFP says 'put food first'
KHARTOUM - The United Nations food agency on January 23 urged African leaders meeting in the Sudanese capital to boost support for its efforts to tackle hunger and poverty on the continent before millions of people die. "We're afraid that Africa's food crises are becoming accepted as 'normal'," World Food Program (WFP) executive director, Jim Morris, said in a statement, which made a similar appeal to international donors.
11 on trial for Turkish 'coup'
BRUGES, Belgium - A group of alleged Marxist revolutionaries went on trial on January 23 in Belgium for allegedly trying to overthrow the Turkish government. Eleven men are accused of being members of the group, DHKPC, which has pledged to overthrow the Turkish government by any means possible and has claimed responsibility for a number of terrorist attacks in Turkey and Germany.
31 arrested in Morocco for torture
RABAT - Moroccan security forces have arrested 31 of their own colleagues in the police and prison administration on charges of torture, a justice ministry spokesman said on January 23. The kingdom was the first Arabic-speaking nation in North Africa to introduce legislation outlawing torture, which was passed by parliament in October 2005.
WFP donates food for Sudanese in Egypt
CAIRO - The World Food Program (WFP) will donate food rations over at least three months for 4,000 Sudanese refugees in Egypt - including some of those who staged a three-month sit-in in central Cairo that was violently dispersed by the Egyptian police last month - the UN agency said on January 23. "It's a symbolic gesture by the WFP to alleviate the pressure on the most vulnerable people," WFP spokesman Khaled Mansour said. The $125,000 donation amounts to 200 tons of food consisting mainly of wheat, flour, oil, sugar and lentils.
Court hears Sharon son arguments
TEL AVIV, Israel - An Israeli court on January 23 heard arguments over the sentencing of Omri Sharon, the son of stricken Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who faces possible imprisonment after pleading guilty to corruption charges. Attorney General Menachem Mazuz intends to ask the Tel Aviv court to jail Omri to make an example out of the former MP, judicial sources said. Omri, who pleaded guilty to providing false testimony and falsifying documents, has tried in vain to reach a bargain in which he would be sentenced for a symbolic six-month stint of community work.
Snow in Istanbul, Bosphorus boats canceled
ANKARA - Snow reached Istanbul and temperatures in the east of Turkey dropped to minus 30 Celsius (minus 22 Fahrenheit) as the nation suffered a freezing blast of Arctic weather, Turkish media reported on January 23. Snow fell in Ankara overnight but main roads remained open. In Istanbul, Turkey's biggest city, which also saw snow falls early on Monday, several universities were closed and authorities canceled boat services over the Bosphorus separating the city's European and Asian sides.
Philippines seeks to save Filipina from Kuwait gallows
MANILA - President Gloria Arroyo on January 23 ordered Philippines diplomats to do everything that they could to save a Filipina teacher who is set to hang in Kuwait for killing her boss there. Ranario, 33, was sentenced by a Kuwaiti court last year to die by hanging for stabbing her employer to death. Circumstances leading to the stabbing were not made public.
Netanyahu 'ready to offer concessions' to Palestinians
JERUSALEM - Likud party chief Binyamin Netanyahu said on January 22 that he was prepared to make territorial concessions within the framework of peace arrangements with the Palestinians. "We want an arrangement with the Palestinians based on reciprocity and if they renounce terrorism. We are ready to make real concessions, but we will give up nothing regarding our security," the rightwing leader said during round table talks in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, a meeting that was televised. "If there is no partnership [from the Palestinian side] we are ready for unilateral withdrawals" from sectors or settlements in the West Bank, Netanyahu said.
At least 22 dead after smuggler boat sinks
GENEVA - A people-smugglers' boat carrying about 120 Ethiopians and Somalis capsized near the Yemen coast leaving at least 22 people dead and 28 missing, the United Nations refugee agency said on January 22. According to the survivors, the boat sank in the Gulf of Aden after setting out from a village near the town of Bossaso, a major departure port for refugees trying to reach Yemen. Authorities recovered 22 bodies, 13 of them those of women, on January 21, with survivors reporting that 28 more were missing. Police arrested two crewmembers but three others fled.
Algeria prepares for bird flu
ALGER - Algeria has set aside funds to import some 7 million doses of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu, in the event of a bird flu outbreak, Algerian health minister Amar Tou said on January 22. That number of doses would provide protection for about 25 percent of the Algerian population, Tou said, according to the Algerian press agency APS. Algeria so far has not reported any cases of bird flu.
One killed in airstrike in Gaza
GAZA CITY - A Palestinian man was killed in an Israeli airstrike to the east of Gaza City on January 22, the Israeli army and Palestinian medics said. An army spokesman said that troops had launched an airstrike against gunmen near the Karni crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel, while a militant faction said that a passerby had been killed in a failed assassination bid against their group.
Saddam lawyers seek to try Bush, Blair
AMMAN - Toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's lawyers said on January 22 that they are seeking to file a case against US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. President of the Jordan Bar Association, Saleh Armouti, who recently joined Saddam's defense team, told journalists that the attorneys would seek Saddam's approval this week to file a lawsuit in a European international court. The lawyers want to try them on charges of illegally invading and occupying a sovereign country.
Kurdish demonstrators clash with police in Istanbul
ISTANBUL - Protestors calling for the release of jailed Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan clashed with police on January 22 in a working-class district of Istanbul. The police fired tear gas grenades and plastic bullets against some 100 protestors, but no one was hurt in the melee in Dolapdere, located in Istanbul's western side.
Zawahiri tape appears on Internet
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Ayman Al Zawahiri, second-ranking leader in Al Qaeda, made an Internet appearance, reciting poetry in a tape dedicated to the "mujahideen brothers". On the tape, Zawahiri recites a poem called "Tears in the Eyes of Time". A US official suggested that the tape is an old one, since Zawahiri does not talk about any recent events.
Bahraini Shia cleric detained in Kuwait
MANAMA - A Bahraini Shia cleric was detained in Kuwait after arriving in the Gulf emirate on January 21, a Shia opposition source said. Sheikh Mounir Al Maatuk was arrested after arriving in Kuwait, said the source from the Islamic National Accord Association (INAA), the main political formation of Bahrain's Shia Muslim majority.
Franklin sentenced for Israeli leak
ALEXANDRIA, VA, USA - Former US Defense Department analyst Lawrence Franklin has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months for passing information to Israel. Franklin, 59, was sentenced on January 20 in Alexandria, Va., after admitting to passing classified military information about Iran and Iraq to two pro-Israel lobbyists and an Israeli diplomat. He pleaded guilty in October to three felony counts under the Espionage Act in exchange for his cooperation and the government dropping three other charges.
Libyan HIV fund set up in jailed Bulgarian nurses' saga
TRIPOLI - An international fund to help HIV-infected Libyan children, whose plight originally led to death sentences on five Bulgarian nurses, was set up in Tripoli on January 21 but without a cash figure being settled. Charitable organizations from the European Union, United States, Libya and Bulgaria are all taking part in the fund.
Muslims threaten boycott over Prophet cartoons
CAIRO - An international group of Muslim scholars threatened on January 21 to call for a boycott of Danish and Norwegian products following the publication of cartoons that they deemed offensive to Islam. "The International Union of Muslim Scholars calls on the leaders of Denmark and Norway to take a firm stance against these repeated attacks on the Muslim nation and the Prophet," said a statement released in the Egyptian capital. "Otherwise the union will be forced to urge millions of Muslims across the world to boycott Danish and Norwegian products and activities," said the Dublin-based body.
Iranian couple hanged for murder-burglary
TEHRAN - A young Iranian young couple convicted of killing a mother and daughter during a burglary has been hanged in Tehran's Evin prison, the Iran newspaper reported on January 21. The husband, identified only as Babak, and his wife, Raheleh, had broken into the house of the victims and killed the 60-year-old woman and her 13-year-old daughter in July 2003. The killers, who stole gold and jewelry, were apprehended by police after they made a getaway in the victims' luxury car.
Father of murdered MP takes his seat
BEIRUT - The father of a leading anti-Syrian journalist and MP murdered last month has taken his son's seat in the Lebanese parliament, the interior ministry announced on January 21. Ghassan Tueni, 79, was the only person to register as a candidate for a by-election to replace his son, Gibran, and so automatically succeeded him. Gibran Tueni, 48, and three other people were killed on December 12 when a car bomb exploded in a Beirut suburb.
Iran rejects Israel's accusation on bombing
TEHRAN - Iran on January 21 dismissed as "baseless" remarks by Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz accusing Iran and Syria of being behind a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv that wounded 19 people. "Shaul Mofaz's comments are baseless," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said in a statement. "Iran's support to the Palestinians is merely a moral support," he said.
Egyptian Christian dies after clashes
CAIRO - A Coptic Christian injured when clashes broke out between Muslims and Christians in southern Egypt died on January 20, police said. The clashes flared on January 18 when Muslims tried to torch a house that Copts were using as a church without approval from the authorities. The death of Kamal Shaker Meglaa in Odayssat village, near Luxor, has raised fears of further violence.
Red Cross helicopter missing in Pakistan
KABUL - Rescue crews were searching for a Red Cross helicopter that disappeared while returning from an earthquake relief mission in Pakistan. A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, which chartered the helicopter, said that radio contact was lost on January 20 after it left the northwestern city of Peshawar, the BBC reported.
Israel breaks up barrier protest
BILIN, West Bank - Several demonstrators were lightly injured on January 20 as Israeli troops broke up a weekly protest against Israel's West Bank separation barrier and made arrests, witnesses said. Troops used tear-gas and truncheons to disperse hundreds of demonstrators in the village of Bilin, near Ramallah, as they protested against the enormous barrier that Israel is building along the occupied Palestinian territory.
British suspend Ethiopian aid
LONDON - Britain has suspended all aid to the Ethiopian government over concerns about human rights. The funding instead will be given to aid agencies or local authorities, British development minister Hilary Benn announced on a visit to Ethiopia. Benn said that there had been a "breach of trust" since more than 80 people were killed in opposition protests following disputed elections.
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