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Sri Lanka rejects UN truce appeal
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 7 months ago
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Sri Lanka has rejected a fresh appeal by the UN to give civilians more time to leave a safe zone in the north-east, the defence secretary says. Only a few hundred civilians used the two-day unilateral government truce with Tamil Tiger rebels to escape.
Tags: Sri Lankan, tigers rebels, tamils tigers, hunger strike, Tamil Tigers, New York, tamils civilians
Bolivia congress sets date for general elections
La Paz :: Bolivia | 7 months ago
Credibility After weeks of enduring cajoling and threats that culminated in a hunger strike by President Evo Morales, Bolivia's congress on Tuesday approved a law allowing him to run for re-election in December. Bolivia's first indigenous president credited his...
Tags: Bolivian, Evo Morales, hunger strike
Granada man starts hunger strike to get his mortgage renegotiated
Humanes de Madrid :: Spain | 7 months ago
Credibility Santiago Cortés lost his job ten months ago A Granada man, Santiago Cortés, has been on hunger strike since last Wednesday in his local parish church. The priest gives him water and lemon, as he protests about his precarious economic situation and demands...
Tags: Granada, granada man, hunger strike
Bolivian president ends hunger strike
La Paz :: Bolivia | 7 months ago
Credibility Bolivian President Evo Morales has ended a five-day-long hunger strike after lawmakers agreed to allow him to run for a second term in December. Mercopress reported Tuesday that the new law also gives Bolivia's indigenous communities rights to territory...
Tags: hunger strike, Bolivian, Mr Morales, bolivians president, Evo Morales, electoral law, president evo
Morales ends hunger strike
La Paz :: Bolivia | 7 months ago
Credibility Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, has ended his five-day hunger strike after Bolivia's congress approved a new election law. The law permits Morales to stand again for election on December 6, reserves 14 congressional seats for indigenous candidates...
Tags: Bolivian, hunger strike, Evo Morales, ended hunger, president evo, bolivians president, electoral code, morales ended, decembe date, general elections
Tamil protesters target Kirribilli
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 7 months ago
Credibility The protestors are staging a sit-in in the roads outside the two buildings, calling on the Australian Government to push for an immediate and permanent ceasefire between Government forces and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. Detective Inspector David Maguire...
Tags: Sri Lanka Army, sri lankan, lankan government, protesters outside, hunger strike, Sydney, tamils tigers
President sticks to hunger strike promise
La Paz :: Bolivia | 7 months ago
Credibility President Evo Morales has vowed to continue a hunger strike now three days old until opposition lawmakers approve an electoral law seen helping allies of the former coca farmer in a December vote. The leftist President, who says he once went without...
Tags: hunger strike, Evo Morales, Bolivian, electoral law, president evo, Hugo Chávez
Bolivian leader vows to continue hunger strike
Morales :: Guatemala | 7 months ago
Credibility Morales , who was awakened by reporters as he slept on an improvised bed on the floor of the Government House, said he was "going to continue the hunger strike," the Bolivian Information Agency said. "I feel that the opposition that does not understand...
Tags: hunger strike, Bolivian Information Agency, Evo Morales, president evo, electoral law, Mr. Morales
Tamil hunger striker suspends fast
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 7 months ago
Credibility The condition of the other appeared to be worsening markedly. Sivatharsan Sivakumaraval, 20, and Prarameswaran Subramaniam, 28, who set up camp in Parliament Square, have been on hunger strike since 6am on Tuesday. They agreed to take on liquids for the...
Tags: Sri Lankan, London, tamils eelam, hunger strike, Tamil Eelam
Tamil protesters suspend hunger strike
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
Credibility Two Tamil students agreed Friday to suspend a hunger strike outside the British Houses of Parliament while one of them puts their case to the United Nations. Sivatharsan Sivakumaraval, 21, will fly to the United Nations in New York with Des Browne, a...
Tags: hunger strike, Northeastern Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan, tamils protesters, Sivatharsan Sivakumaraval, British Houses of Parliament, Central London, parliament square, tamils students, hunger strikers
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