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AP – Documents federal agents left behind during a September raid of an anti-war activist’s home shed some light on the evolution of an investigation into apparent connections between local activists and radical groups in Colombia and the Middle East.

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AP – A leading human rights activist says Syrian security forces have killed 30 people during widespread protests.

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AP – Syrian security forces detained dozens of opposition activists and others in raids Sunday launched less than a week after President Bashar Assad’s regime abolished emergency laws used for decades to crush dissent, a human rights activist said.

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AP – A prominent Syrian rights activist says protesters in the coastal town of Latakia have set fire to offices of the ruling Baath party.

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AP – In his youth, Jigme Norbu was an American “bad boy” who thought his relationship to his uncle, the Dalai Lama, gave him a special status. Over time, acquaintances say, Norbu’s sense of entitlement turned into an embrace of the work of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader and his own father, as Norbu walked thousands of miles to promote awareness of Tibet’s struggle for independence from China.

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AP – An American activist convicted of aiding leftist rebels surrendered to police on Wednesday after a court ordered her arrest and struck down a decision granting her parole.

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AP – A court in Peru revoked parole for American activist Lori Berenson and ordered that she be arrested Wednesday and sent back to prison to finish the last five years of her 20-year prison sentence for aiding leftist rebels.

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