Concessions End Serb Suspect's Hunger Strike
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THE HAGUE, Dec. 8 -- A Serb war crimes suspect ended his nearly month-long hunger strike Friday after judges allowed him to conduct his own defense and granted several other demands, the U.N. Yugoslav tribunal announced.
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Serbia yesterday signalled the start of greater co-operation with the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, surrendering a former Bosnian Serb general whose troops held Sarajevo under siege during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.
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A Cuban dissident demanding unfettered  access to the Internet ended a seven-month hunger strike on  Thursday after fellow dissidents convinced him to give up.
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A Serb ultranationalist could die within two weeks if he continues his hunger strike at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal's detention unit, a French doctor said after visiting him Tuesday.Comment
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A Serbian leader accused of war crimes at The Hague could be freed on a Serbian guarantee pending his trial.
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Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails  Thursday have effectively ended an 18-day-old hunger strike  after most of their demands for better conditions were met, a  Palestinian cabinet minister said.
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A top Serbian general accused of playing a role in the murder of hundreds of Kosovo Albanian civilians during a 1998-99 crackdown surrendered Thursday to the U.N. tribunal in the Hague.
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A group of Afghan asylum seekers who had spent a week on a protest hunger strike in a Dublin cathedral were removed without incident by Irish police, a spokesman said.
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FIGHTERS loyal to firebrand Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have been allowed to keep weapons such as AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenade launchers as part of secret provisions in a deal that ended the 22-day siege of the holy city of Najaf.
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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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KABUL -- Taliban-linked militants holding three UN hostages said yesterday the Afghan government has agreed to free some of their jailed comrades to prevent the killing of the foreign captives. Afghan state television reported that President Hamid Karzai had decreed the release of prisoners for Eid, the end of the Muslim fasting month, expected on Sunday. But there was no ...
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands  - A top Serbian general accused of playing a role in the murder of hundreds of Kosovo-Albanians during a 1998-99 crackdown surrendered Thursday to the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague.
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About 30,000 Serbs protested in front  of the United States embassy on Saturday in defense of Radical  Party leader Vojislav Seselj, now 22 days into a hunger strike  at The Hague's war crimes tribunal.
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Two years ago, Croatia's prime minister dropped in on Sofia Skoric's home and munched on bread she had baked for him. It was a gesture intended to show that the hard feelings many harbored toward minority Serbs after the country's bloody 1991 war were gone.
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Serbian war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj has ended a month-long hunger strike after winning back the right to defend himself before the UN tribunal in The Hague, the court said.
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A dissident journalist who refused to eat solid foods for nearly seven months in his demand for full Internet access for all Cubans has ended his hunger strike, his mother said Thursday.
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Bosnian Serb police acting on a tip from the U.N. war crimes tribunal sealed off part of the northern town of Bijeljina on Saturday and searched homes but found no fugitives.