Ukraine journalists go on hunger strike
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Journalists at Ukraine&#39;s sole television channel giving the opposition air time have staged a hunger strike to denounce official pressure in the ex-Soviet state&#39;s hotly contested presidential election race.
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MOSCOW -- The editor of Russia's prominent daily newspaper Izvestia said yesterday that he is stepping down in a dispute with his publisher over the paper's coverage of the school hostage standoff, including its publication of graphic pictures of wounded and dead children and other victims.
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One of the biggest complaints made by opposition candidates in Ukraine's presidential election campaign has been lack of access to mass media.
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Jailed Russian former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky starts hunger strike in support of sick colleague.
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Plans to have Ukraine's famine declared an act of genocide anger pro-Russian politicians, Helen Fawkes reports.
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Journalists are insisting help is needed for those required to bear witness to the atrocities of war.
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By WILLIAM TINNING  BBC journalists and technical staff are to stage a 24-hour strike in a row over jobs which threatens to disrupt radio and TV news programmes, unions announced yesterday.
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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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The prisoners&#39; hunger strike in Palestine is nearing the end of its second week. Three days ago, in Askar and then Balata refugee camps near Nablus, Israeli troops ran amok in the camps, making mass arrests
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Ukraine's opposition has pushed ahead with plans for a national strike, including the blocking of highways.
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Thousands more demonstrators took to the  freezing streets around Ukraine's parliament Wednesday as  international mediators stepped up efforts to resolve the  10-day-old crisis over the disputed presidential election.
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Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko calls for a general strike as he rejects the presidential poll result.
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Ukraine's National Salvation Committee and opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko are launching "an organized, not aggressive" campaign aimed at blocking the country's government, parliament and presidential ...
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JERUSALEM -- An estimated 1,500 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons launched a hunger strike yesterday, demanding more visits with family members, an end to strip searches, and better overall conditions.
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Ukrainian politicians officially began campaigning Thursday for the upcoming parliamentary election, called to resolve a bitter political struggle between the former Soviet nation's two feuding leaders. via Pravda
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Palestinians held in Israeli jails go on hunger strike to protest at conditions but Israel says they can "starve to death".
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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."