Afghans stage Dublin hunger strike
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Afghan asylum seekers in a Dublin cathedral enter the seventh day of a hunger strike.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Oct. 6, 2004 - Campaigning for Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election ended with a burst of violence Wednesday as attackers set off a bomb in a failed effort to kill interim
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A group of pro-democracy protesters detained in military-ruled Myanmar launched a hunger strike Thursday, demanding that authorities provide medical treatment for a wounded colleague, activists said.
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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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More Guantanamo Bay detainees protesting their indefinite confinement joined a hunger strike, raising the number of those refusing food to 89 from 75, the U.S. military said Thursday. Six of the hunger strikers at the isolated U.S. naval base in southeast Cuba were being force-fed, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand.
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6 October 2004 -- Campaigning in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election drew to a close today amid violence, as the nation prepares to cast ballots in its first democratic vote on 9 October.
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SRINAGAR, India  - Leaders of Kashmir's main  political separatist alliance on Wednesday threatened to go on  hunger strike to protest against alleged human right abuses by  Indian soldiers posted in the disputed region.
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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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US and Afghan forces looking for hostages today raided houses in the Afghan capital of Kabul, officials and witnesses said. About ten people were detained in the pre-dawn operation by
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A diplomatic row erupted on Wednesday  between Afghanistan and key aid partners after Kabul declared  "persona non grata" a Briton and an Irishman working for the EU  and the U.N., accusing them of threatening state security by  meeting Taliban insurgents.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Thousands of Palestinian  prisoners in Israeli jails began a hunger strike for better  conditions Sunday, but Israel's security minister said he  didn't care if they starved to death.
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University students in Indian-administered Kashmir start a hunger strike to try to save endangered chinar trees.
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A commando-style suicide raid on Afghanistan's top hotel, frequented by foreigners and diplomats, shows a new method of Taliban attack aimed at soft civilian targets, diplomats and analysts said on Tuesday.
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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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Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland, Filipino Angelito Nayan and Kosovan Shqipe Habibi were kidnapped in the Afghan capital, Kabul, last week.
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Doctors at India's top medical institute begin a hunger strike to protest against quotas for low-caste Hindus.
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Grieving relatives of people who have disappeared in Kashmir's 17-year insurgency took their protests to the doorsteps of the Indian government on Thursday, staging a day-long hunger strike to press for information.