Nine members of a Russian white supremacist group are jailed for up to 22 years in connection with the killing of an African man.

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Russians jailed over race murder
Freedom of expression on the web has been curtailed in 2009, the US state department says in its annual human rights report.

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Web censure ‘curbs human rights’
A student at a high school in Mississippi says the school board cancelled her school’s prom rather than let her attend it with her lesbian girlfriend

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US school prom axed as lesbian student asks to bring girlfriend
Hundreds of Nigerian women protest over last Sunday’s violence near Jos, where many women and children were massacred.

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Nigeria women protest at killings
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Burma’s leaders formally annul the National League for Democracy’s 1990 election win, as more details of new poll laws emerge.

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Burma annuls 1990 Suu Kyi poll win
Mexican Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as the world’s richest man, according to the Forbes “rich list”, with a fortune of $53.5bn.

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Mexican tycoon shakes up world rich list
Japan voices opposition to a proposed ban on international trade in bluefin tuna, after the EU backs the plan.

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Japan protest over tuna ban plan
Brazil’s President Lula is criticised for comments that appear to compare Cuban dissidents on hunger strike to common criminals.

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Lula criticised for Cuba comment
An opposition leader criticises a wave of arrests in The Gambia, saying detainees do not know why they are being held.

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Gambia row over wave of arrests
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