Saddam aides launch hunger strike
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A year after he was captured by US troops, some of Saddam Hussein&#39;s old lieutenants have stirred up new interest in his fate by going on hunger strike
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The US military denies reports Saddam Hussein is on hunger strike, but says some former aides are refusing food.
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Some of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein&#39;s aides will go on trial next week, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD  - The US military in Iraq denied that ousted president Saddam Hussein , captured a year ago and awaiting trial for crimes against humanity, was on hunger strike in his secret American detention centre.
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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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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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The World Food Programme has launched an urgent appeal for funds to feed North Korea, saying more than one third of its children are badly malnourished.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Some 12,500 Argentine prisoners are staging a hunger strike to demand quicker action in their court cases, government officials said on Tuesday.
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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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Some of Saddam Hussein&#39;s top aides are refusing meals in their secret US detention centre, the US army acknowledged on Sunday after a detainee&#39;s lawyer said Iraq&#39;s ousted leaders were on hunger strike.
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The ousted president of French Polynesia Oscar Temaru started a hunger strike Monday in protest at his controversial ejection from office last weekend.
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The number of Guantanamo Bay detainees staging a hunger strike has grown from three to 75, the U.S. military said Monday, reflecting increasing defiance among men who have been held for up to 4 1/2 years, most without charges and with little contact with the outside world.
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Doctors have begun force-feeding a jailed former leader of the Basque separatist group ETA who is staging a second hunger strike to protest his imprisonment, a prison department spokesman said Wednesday.
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Trials of some of Saddam Hussein&#39;s aides will begin next week, Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said. Speaking to Iraq&#39;s National Council, he did not name the lieutenants that would go on trial or say when Saddam himself would appear in court.
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Eight of Saddam Hussein's jailed  deputies, who refused to eat breakfast as part of what one of  their lawyers described as a "hunger strike," are eating again,  the U.S. military said on Monday.
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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.
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WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein used illegal spoils from the UN oil-for-food program to pay cash rewards to the families of Palestinian terrorist bombers, according to congressional investigators.