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24 Guantanamo Detainees on ‘Hunger Strike-Lite’
Posted by admin on March 21st, 2013
Twenty-four of the 166 detainees at the Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba are said to be on a hunger strike, but maybe not in the truest definition of the phrase. In a briefing with Pentagon reporters today, Gen. John Kelly, the commander of U.S. Southern… Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Filmmaker Lori Silverbush Tackles Nation’s Hunger Problem in ‘A Place at the Table’
Posted by admin on March 5th, 2013
While she was mentoring a young girl in East Harlem, N.Y., filmmaker Lori Silverbush received a disturbing call from a teacher who said the 12-year-old was spotted foraging through the trash at school for food. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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No Comments »China’s Bo Xilai not cooperating on probe, been on hunger strike: sources
Posted by admin on February 21st, 2013
BEIJING (Reuters) – Disgraced former senior Chinese leader Bo Xilai is refusing to cooperate with a government investigation into him and has staged hunger strikes in protest and at one point was treated in hospital, sources with knowledge of the matter said. Almost a year after Bo's fall from grace under a cloud of lurid [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Been, China's, cooperating, hunger, probe, Sources, Strike, Xilai No Comments »Mexican president vows to end hunger for millions
Posted by admin on January 22nd, 2013
LAS MARGARITAS, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto launched a campaign against hunger on Monday, pledging to transform the lives of nearly 7.5 million of the country's poorest, though he gave few details, prompting criticism that the plan was a "rehash" of old policies. Tackling the poverty that blights Mexico has been a [...]
Hunger strike pressures Canada PM, aboriginal protests spread
Posted by admin on December 28th, 2012
OTTAWA (Reuters) – A Canadian aboriginal chief in the third week of a hunger strike is urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to "open his heart" and meet with native leaders angered by his policies as small impromptu protests spread beyond Canada's borders. Chief Theresa Spence from the remote northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat has been [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: aboriginal, Canada, hunger, Pressures, protests, spread, Strike No Comments »Kurd militants end hunger strike in Turkey, deal seen
Posted by admin on November 18th, 2012
ISTANBUL/DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) – Hundreds of Kurdish militants ended a hunger strike in jails across Turkey on Sunday after an appeal from their leader, fuelling hopes a deal had been struck that could revive talks to end a decades-old conflict. Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his supporters to end their protest after [...]
Militant chief Ocalan wants end to Turkey hunger strike
Posted by admin on November 18th, 2012
ISTANBUL/DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) – Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called for an end to a hunger strike by hundreds of his supporters in prisons across Turkey on Saturday, raising hopes of a push to end a decades-old conflict. The hunger strike by at least 1,700 people to demand an end to Ocalan’s isolation is in [...]
Second Islamist dies in Tunisian prison after hunger strike
Posted by admin on November 17th, 2012
TUNIS (Reuters) – A second Tunisian Salafist held in custody since protesters ransacked the U.S. embassy in Tunis in September has died after a hunger strike, his lawyer and the Justice Ministry said on Saturday. Muhammed Bakhti died in hospital on Saturday, two days after 26-year-old student Bechir Gholli. They were among dozens of Salafists, [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: After, Dies, hunger, Islamist, prison, second, Strike, Tunisian No Comments »Turkey to allow Kurdish in court as hunger strike enters day 56
Posted by admin on November 6th, 2012
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The Turkish government has said it will soon submit to parliament a reform allowing defendants to use languages other than Turkish in court, a key demand of jailed Kurdish militants whose hunger strike entered its 56th day on Tuesday. The refusal of courts to allow defendants who speak Turkish to use Kurdish [...]
