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Defeated Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko "will never recognise" the victory of her rival Viktor Yanukovich in Sunday's closely-fought election, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday.
A Chinese activist who was investigating whether shoddy construction caused school collapses in the massive 2008 Sichuan earthquake was jailed Tuesday for five years for subversion, his lawyer said.
Pope Benedict XVI on Monday again condemned Roman Catholics who have violated children's rights, a week before a meeting with Irish bishops over a sex abuse scandal.
Cuba has released the last five of a group of 35 dissidents it arrested last week for demonstrating on behalf of a conscientious objector, a Cuban human rights group said Monday.
Sri Lanka's former army chief and defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka is to be court-martialled, officials said Tuesday, a day after he was hauled away from his office by armed troops.
The former president of Britain's National Black Police Association was found guilty on Monday of misconduct in public office and perverting the course of justice.
Kazakhstan, chairing Europe's main democracy and security watchdog this year, was criticised by the organisation on Monday for using censorship to silence dissenting views.
The Gulf kingdom of Bahrain resumed torturing detainees in 2007 after about a decade of not engaging in the "scourge,” US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Monday.
Hamas's Palestinian rivals denounced the Islamist movement on Saturday for expressing regret over the deaths of Israeli civilians during the Gaza war a year ago.
Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich claimed a slender victory in a presidential poll on Monday that could tilt the ex-Soviet state back towards Moscow, but bitter rival Yulia Tymoshenko had yet to concede defeat.
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