Thousands prisoners on hunger strike in Argentina
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Some 12,500 Argentine prisoners are staging a hunger strike to demand quicker action in their court cases, government officials said on Tuesday.
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Hundreds of thousands of South African public sector workers went on strike on Thursday in the largest industrial action witnessed in the last decade.
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Prison gangs have taken more than 100 inmates and visitors hostage in two prison uprisings in El Salvador, a prison spokeswoman says.
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By Mary Milliken and Juana Casas BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Protests mounted onSunday as families and friends mourned the more than 180 youngpeople killed in a blaze at a rock club.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Thousands of Argentines  mourning almost 200 young victims of a rock club fire took to  the streets of Buenos Aires on Monday to protest the  government's safety standards, as the city mayor resisted  pressure to resign.
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Hundreds of thousands of civil servants go on strike on Friday in protest at looming job cuts.
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Some dissidents arrested in a fierce crackdown on protests in military-ruled Myanmar have gone on hunger strike over police refusal to treat a protester with a broken leg, an activist said on Friday.
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Rioting inmates at an Argentine jail release dozens of hostages as the authorities regain control, police say.
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To mark the occasion in a show of defiance, his lieutenants have staged a hunger strike. They are concerned they could be handed over to the Iraqis following elections in the country next month.
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Thousands of civil servants marched in cities across South Africa Thursday in a one-day strike over wages seen as a test of will between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and its labor allies.
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The leader of a small Australian  political party will begin a hunger strike on Saturday in  support of about 20 Iranian asylum seekers held at a rural  immigration detention center who have refused food for almost  two weeks.
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HARTFORD, Conn.  - Five prisoners sentenced to be  executed in Connecticut began a hunger strike on Thursday to  protest their solitary living conditions which they called  "inhumane and tantamount to psychological torture."
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Protests mounted on  Sunday as families and friends mourned the more than 180 young  people killed in a blaze at a rock club.
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Thousands of peasants and workers demonstrated here Monday, demanding that former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada be tried for the deaths of more than 50 people in the suppression of protests that toppled his government one year ago.
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Thousands of civil servants marched in  cities across South Africa Thursday in a one-day strike over  wages seen as a test of will between the ruling African  National Congress (ANC) and its labor allies.
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Thousands of Argentines angered over safety lapses at a nightclub where a fire killed 183 people, many of them teenagers, marched through capital streets Monday holding pictures of the victims and demanding the resignations of key city officials.
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Over 40 African illegal immigrants enter the fourth week of a hunger strike in Limoges, central France.