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An All Afghan Women's Summit is held in Tirana, Albania, where more than 130 Afghan women gathered to protest the crackdown on women's rights by the Taliban.
2024-09-11

At least six people die due to heat-related illness in the Phoenix metropolitan area in Arizona, United States, as temperatures reach 115 F.
2024-06-21

An Afghan Tajik asylum seeker who has been held in immigration detention by Australia for eight years sues the Australian Government in the Federal Court. A former employee of the Islamic Republican government, the man fled an assassination attempt by the Taliban and argues that his family is still being targeted in Afghanistan and that his indefinite detention prevents him from organising their escape from the violence. The Government has requested the case be dismissed and denied they had any legal obligations towards Afghan citizens.
2021-07-22

The death toll rises to 16 from this week's flash flood along the Utah – Arizona border in the United States.
2015-09-16

The United States Federal Government recognizes same-sex marriage in Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, North Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming, bringing the total number of states with recognition of gay marriage to 32.
2014-10-25

A U.S. Border Patrol agent is shot dead near the U.S.-Mexico border in the state of Arizona. A second agent was shot and is being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
2012-10-2

Voters in the US states of Michigan and Arizona go to the polls for Republican Party primaries. Mitt Romney wins both states.
2012-02-28

26 Pakistani soldiers are killed after a NATO helicopter opens fire on a Pakistani checkpoint, sparking outrage from the Pakistani government.
2011-11-26

A jury in the US state of Arizona convicts Mark Goodeau on all charges related to the Baseline Killer murders. [http:--www.ajc.com-news-nation-world-jury-convicts-arizona-man-1214008.html (AP via "Atlanta Journal Constitution")]date=August 2019
2011-10-31

Hacker group LulzSec releases material belonging to the Department of Public Safety in the US state of Arizona in response to immigration law SB 1070.
2011-06-23