Students in NE Ukrainian city go on hunger strike
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A group of students in the northeast Ukrainian city of Sumy has gone on a hunger strike demanding a release of their comrades, whom a local court sentenced to ten days under administrative arrest.
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Residents of the Russian town of Beslan,  scene of a hostage bloodbath at a school last year, took to the  streets on Friday to protest at what they consider an official  cover-up of the tragedy.
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A convoy of supporters of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko on Sunday moved deeper into the eastern stronghold of his opponent despite fears of violence, activists said.
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Ukrainian police and state security agents searched the apartments of two opposition activists Friday, just over a week before the country's hotly contested presidential election, a news report and an ...
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Hunger-striking television journalists at Channel 5 in Ukraine ended their week-long fast last week after authorities unfroze the station's bank account, meeting one of the strikers' demands in regards to a ...
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Vasyl Fylosov and Sofiya Kirichenko came to Kyiv from different regions to join round-the-clock protests in support of opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
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MOSCOW, Jan. 30 -- Imprisoned Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Wednesday that he is going on a hunger strike to demand that another jailed executive receive medical care that the two men contend is being withheld to compel testimony.
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The United Nations on Friday voiced concern at a reported hunger strike by over 2,900 Palestinian prisoners which was launched two weeks ago to demand an end to inhuman conditions.
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Afghan asylum seekers in a Dublin cathedral enter the seventh day of a hunger strike.
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It's hard to find people who want to work on the killing floors at Maple Leaf Foods so the company has turned to Ukraine for workers.
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Ukraine is campaigning for a U.N. General Assembly resolution that would declare the 1932-33 famine that killed up to 10 million people a genocide, Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk said.
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Students are stirring over cancellation of their public transport privileges and a new draft law.
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Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are said to have resumed a hunger strike protest after a weekend break. An Israeli prison service official confirmed that between 350 and 400 prisoners were again refusing meals at Shikma prison in the town of Ashkelon.
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Four Latvian human rights advocates began a hunger strike Monday to protest their government's insistence on teaching Latvian instead of Russian in schools.
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Children are being presented with healthier choices for school dinners and in vending machines.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Thousands of Palestinian  prisoners in Israeli jails began a hunger strike for better  conditions on Sunday, but Israel's security minister said he  didn't care if they starved to death.
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Ball State undergraduate Andriy Kurasov and graduate student Svitlana Kominko regret not being able to stand on the streets of Kiev, Ukraine, with fellow citizens who are protesting the declared presidential ...