Palestinians end hunger protest
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A hunger strike that, at its height, involved some 4,000 Palestinians interned in Israeli jails ends after nearly three weeks.
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Palestinians flooded the streets of the Gaza Strip by the tens of thousands Saturday in the biggest show of support for Hamas since the Islamic militants seized the territory in June.
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Swallowing their pride, thousands of Palestinian government workers who have been living without salaries for nearly four months received food packets from the United Nations.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- About 800 Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike after winning concessions from Israeli authorities, a spokesman for the men said yesterday.
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Israel agreed on Sunday to stop hunting 180 wanted Fatah militants who pledge to end attacks against the Jewish state, as part of a U.S.-led effort to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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People in many West Bank cities and towns have staged a general sit-in to express solidarity with fellow Palestinians held in Israeli jails, Aljazeera&#39;s correspondent reports.
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Serbian ultranationalist leader  Vojislav Seselj has ended his hunger strike in detention, the  U.N. war crimes tribunal said on Friday, after its Appeals  Chamber granted Seselj's request to represent himself.
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The Ukrainian pop star Ruslana Lezhychko has temporarily ended a hunger strike in support of the opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
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A Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop on a hunger strike for 23 days to protest against an irrigation project ended his fast on Thursday after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said construction will go forward.
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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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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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Israel agreed to allow supplies of some fuel and medicine into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Tuesday, easing for at least one day a blockade that plunged much of the territory into darkness and sparked international protests.
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Israel&#39;s labor unions ended a paralyzing two-day general strike on Wednesday that grounded international air traffic, shut financial markets and halted public services in a dispute over unpaid wages.
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Thousands of Palestinians streamed over the border crossing and went on a spree of buying fuel and other supplies that have been cut off from their territory by Israel.
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Anti-government protests demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany ended peacefully for the second night, apparently signalling an end to the worst street riots here since the collapse of communism.
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Israel agreed to allow some fuel, medicine and food into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Tuesday, at least temporarily easing a blockade that has plunged much of the territory into darkness and sparked international protests.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel has closed all border crossings into Gaza, cutting off food and humanitarian supplies to the coastal strip in a bid to pressure its Hamas rulers to stop a barrage of rocket attacks on Israeli towns, defense officials said Friday.