When Fabrice was brutally outed by his uncle, the young Cameroonian was immediately evicted from his rented room in the port city of Douala. “I had always managed to hide my homosexuality until the day my uncle beat me up in public,” he said, after seeing Fabrice with his gay companion….
French President Hollande talks of human rights during China visit
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French President Francois Hollande, who is in China to meet his counterpart Xi Xingping, has said his talks touched upon Beijing’s human rights record.
Nearly 100 Tibetan monks have set themselves on fire since 2009, after calling for religious freedom and the return of their exiled leader the Dalai Lama.
Hollande said the recent self-immolations “created some legitimate emotion,” adding:
“Regarding human rights and democratic principles, they are both part of the dialogue that we are having. It should not be seen as an obligation, we should simply put this issue as it should be: as part of frank and respectful political dialogue.”
Hollande is travelling with a delegation representing dozens of French businesses on a mission to boost trade amid worsening economic troubles.
He is therefore taking a sizeable risk by speaking of Tibet or the country’s human rights record and must tread carefully.
Chinese officials have shunned high-level meetings with their British counterparts since Prime Minister David Cameron met with the Dalai Lama last May.
And relations with Norway have also been frozen since the Scandinavian country awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiabo.
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Iraq in first vote since US troop withdrawal
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has cast his vote in the country’s first provincial election since the departure of US troops.
Voting has been marred by violence with reports that a dozen small bombs have exploded and mortar rounds fired at polling stations across Iraq.
Authorities say around four people have been injured.
Security is tight as more than 8,000 candidates battle for 450 seats on provincial councils.
Iraqi politics is split along sectarian lines with the Shi’ite majority government in crisis over how to share power with Sunnis and Kurds.
More that a dozen candidates, mostly Sunnis, have been killed during the campaign.
Iraqis remain frustrated by the unemployment, lack of infrastructure and corruption more than a decade after the invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein
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French hostages freed in Cameroon back in France
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Seven members of a French family freed after being kidnapped by gunmen in Cameroon have arrived back in France.
French President François Hollande greeted them as they landed in Paris.
The Moulin-Fournier family were taken hostage by armed men on motorbikes in northern Cameroon on February 19.
Tanguy Moulin-Fournier expressed his relief at being back home:
“It was yesterday that I learned about French solidarity. I am pleased that France can act. There was so much emotion. I am so glad to be back in France.It is a great moment.
The father Tanguy, his wife, four children and his brother were held by the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram.
Boko Haram are engaged in an insurgency against the government of Nigeria following a crackdown on their members in 2009.
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‘He put a shame on this family’, says uncle of Boston bomb suspect
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Details are beginning to surface about brothers Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the two suspects in the Boston marathon bombing. Now that suspects have been identified, questions are being asked about what motivated them.
Ruslan Tsarni, the suspects’ uncle claims to have last seen his nephews in 2005 and last spoke to them two years ago. Speaking from Maryland he had this message:
“Ask for forgiveness, from the victims, from the injured and from those who left, ask for forgiveness from those people. We’re not requiring for forgiveness in this family. He put a shame, he put a shame on this family, Tsarni family, he put a shame on the entire Chechnyan ethnicity cause everyone now names, they play with word Chechnyan”.
When asked what had provoked the brothers, Tsarni replied ‘being losers’ and cited an inability to integrate as possible reasons. He rejected all suggestions that their muslim beliefs lay behind the attacks.
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Poland marks 70th anniversary of Jewish Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazis
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The Polish capital Warsaw has commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Jewish Ghetto uprising against the Nazi occupiers during World War II.
European, Polish and Israeli officials were present as a new museum was opened to remember the Jewish community that lived in Poland for centuries beforehand.
The uprising against German troops followed a decision to liquidate the ghetto and kill all its residents.
“We knew that the end would be the same for everyone. The thought of the uprising came from our determination. We wanted to choose the way we would die, that’s all,” Simcha Rotem, a veteran of the uprising, told the ceremony.
The Israeli Education Minister who was at the ceremony recalled the diversity of the Jewish people before hundreds of thousands were incarcerated behind the Ghetto walls.
Many were sent in trains bound for death camps; thousands died of starvation and disease.
The uprising, which claimed 13,000 lives, saw groups of young Jews fight the Nazis with improvised weapons before it was crushed one month later.
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