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Ukraine’s former female PM on ‘hunger strike’

Ukraine's jailed opposition leader and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko (AFP)

Ukraine’s jailed opposition leader and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko has been on a hunger strike since Friday to protest her treatment by prison wardens and doctors, her lawyer said. “Yulia Tymoshenko has declared a hunger strike,” Interfax quotedSerhiy Vlasenko as saying outside her prison in the eastern city of Kharkiv where Tymoshenko has been jailed since last year on…

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Black government employee group calls for end to racially biased drug war

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Blacks in Government (BIG) has become the latest national African-American group to officially call for an end to the “war on drugs” after passing a resolution at its delegates meeting last week. The resolution (PDF), which will be delivered to President Barack Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, blames…

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