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Iran has confiscated a Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi in 2003, Norway says. The seizure is the first in the history of the prize. Ebadi, who won the honor for her efforts in promoting democracy, has long faced harassment from Iranian authorities.
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Authorities in the Philippines plan to charge a town mayor with murder, accusing him of leading a massacre of 57 people in an election-related attack on Monday. Andal Ampatuan Jr. has surrendered, but he denies any involvement in the killings. The reason he gave himself up, he insists, is to "prove that I am not hiding and that I am not guilty."
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