Moscow: Prisoners from two Russian penal colonies have gone on hunger strikes to draw attention to what one rights group said on Thursday were instances of "torture", humiliation and threats of rape. Earlier this week prison officials said a number of inmates had begun to refuse food in penal colonies in the Ulyanovsk region in central Russia and the Siberian region of Irkutsk.
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Sudanese soldiers guard the surrounding area of the UNMIS compound in El-Fasher, the administrative capital of North...
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US President Joe Biden during his address in California. — AFP FileWASHINGTON: President Joe Biden signed a...
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