Hunger strike inmate dies as protests spread in Turkey
A former prisoner in Izmir died after a six month hunger strike linked to Turkey’s new maximum security prisons. The death raises toll to 27 inmates and relatives. activists report 200 plus participants enduring sugar water and vitamins amid transfers to high security cells. In Switzerland, a nurse admits killing nine Alzheimer’s patients, claiming pity as motive, with police probing prior jobs for similar cases.
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Mahmut Gokhan Ozocak
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party Front
Aegean
Izmir
Human Rights Assa
Ozocak
Orvo Nieminen
Lucerne
Nieminen
Daniel Bussman
Lucerne Criminal Police
Jumbo elephant relocation shifts habitat to Meru Park
In Kenya, 56 elephants from Ol Pajeta sanctuary were moved over three weeks to Meru National Park to ease human elephant conflicts in Laikipia district. The 4.2 ton bull Mzee led the trek, aided by rangers and a helicopter. The $150,000 project aims to restock Meru and reduce crop damage while wildlife officials monitor the herd.
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Kenya
Mzee
Africa
Richard Kosgey
Pajeta Sanctuary
Meru National
Patrick Omondi
Kenya Wildlife Service
Meru Park
Laikipia
Omondi
Ol Pajeta
Elizabeth Wambua
The
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Kosgey
International Fund For Animal Welfare
Liz Wamba
Sweetwaters National Park
KWS
Sweetwaters
Meru National Park
Kohl’s wife Hannelore Kohl dies by own action in despair
Berlin AP Hannelore Kohl 68 wife of former chancellor Helmut Kohl died by her own hand after years of sun allergy and anxiety over daylight. She avoided light for 15 months and left farewell letters to her husband and family.
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Hannelore Kohl
Helmut Kohl
Kohl
Ludwigshafen
Gerhard Schroeder
Peter
Istanbul
Turkey
Peter Boenisch
Schroeder
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
Widespread witch killings surge in Congo villages
Ugandan army says about 200 people have been hacked to death in rebel-held northeastern Congo since mid June. Villagers blamed diseases on witchcraft amid war disruptions, with displaced persons targeted as illness spread and health services collapse.
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Kampala
Uganda
Congo
Henry Tumukunde
Tumukunde
Aru
Sudan
Typhoon Utor Leaves Deadly Mudslides Across Asia
Typhoon Utor swept southern Taiwan and northern Philippines, killing 37 and triggering floods and mudslides. In the Philippines, a mudslide buried a hut killing a taxi driver, his wife, and two daughters. 16 missing and 25,000 displaced nationwide. In Taiwan one man died near Hualien and six were injured as the storm hovered over the region. Losses to farm lands and fisheries were estimated at $2 million. Separately in Vietnam, Durian related floods killed 22.
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Utor
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Duque
Marshall Islands
Hualien
Wu Chiao-wen
South China Sea
Joint Typhoon Warning Center
Pearl Harbor
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Council of Agriculture
Cris Cuyao
Baguio City
Cuyao
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