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World
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3/12/2023 6:03:47 PM
Iran's top diplomat claimed Sunday that a prisoner swap was near with the US, though he offered no evidence to support his assertion. The US immediately dismissed his comments as a “cruel lie.”
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World
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Region
3/11/2023 2:55:37 PM
Yemen’s warring sides began talks Saturday aimed at implementing a U.N.-brokered deal on a prisoner exchange, the United Nations said.
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World
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Region
3/11/2023 1:43:25 PM
Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons say they will intensify their protest against measures taken by Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA.
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World
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Region
2/15/2023 11:11:30 AM
Israel's far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, long accused of inflaming Jewish-Arab tensions, has set his sights on one of the conflict's most sensitive issues: Palestinian prisoners.
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World
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War in Ukraine
2/4/2023 8:07:52 PM
Dozens of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war have returned home following a prisoner swap, officials on both sides said Saturday.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
1/25/2023 7:33:49 PM
Egypt’s Ministry of Interior has announced the release of 2,194 prisoners as per a presidential pardon on the occasion of the National Police Day.
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World
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Region
1/19/2023 2:40:16 PM
Palestinian prisoner jailed for alleged killing an Israeli soldier was released on Thursday after serving 40 years, officials said, with Israel warning, it would not tolerate celebrations glorifying "terror".
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World
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War in Ukraine
1/12/2023 4:00:03 PM
Russia and Ukraine have not reached a new prisoner exchange agreement during talks in Turkey, Moscow's envoy told AFP on Thursday, saying her earlier remarks about a swap were misinterpreted.
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World
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War in Ukraine
1/11/2023 8:04:00 PM
Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday agreed a new prisoner swap during rare talks in Turkiye during which they also discussed the creation of a "humanitarian corridor" in the war zone.
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World
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International
1/4/2023 9:22:07 AM
Myanmar's junta announced an amnesty for 7,000 prisoners to mark Independence Day on Wednesday following a show of force in the capital, days after increasing democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi's jail term to 33 years.
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World
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Region
12/26/2022 7:55:46 PM
Libya's unity government has carried out a prisoner exchange with Libyan National Army, releasing a pilot captured during LNA’s 2019 attack on Tripoli, local media reported Monday.
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World
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Region
12/21/2022 12:39:35 PM
Israel's defense minister said Wednesday that the remains of a Palestinian prisoner who died a day earlier from lung cancer would not be released for burial.
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World
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International
12/20/2022 10:42:46 PM
All 33 suspected militant prisoners who seized a Pakistan police station over the weekend were killed and their hostages freed in a clearance operation by special forces on Tuesday, the defence minister said.
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World
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Region
12/20/2022 9:43:21 PM
Hundreds of Palestinians, including dozens of masked gunmen firing into the air, took to the streets and stores shuttered across the occupied West Bank to protest the death of a veteran prisoner in Israeli captivity.
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World
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War in Ukraine
12/14/2022 9:28:01 PM
Ukraine said Wednesday that it had secured the release of a US citizen as well as 64 Ukrainian members of the military in its latest prisoner swap with Russian forces.
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World
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War in Ukraine
12/14/2022 7:49:05 PM
The new head of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday said she was prepared to go to Moscow to discuss access to prisoners of war (POWs).
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World
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Region
12/14/2022 6:42:42 PM
Hamas will end talks on securing a prisoner exchange with Israel unless there is progress soon, the militant group's leader in the Gaza Strip said Wednesday.
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World
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International
12/9/2022 2:11:29 PM
American basketball star Brittney Griner returned to the United States early Friday after being freed in a high-profile prisoner exchange following nearly 10 months in detention in Russia.
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World
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Region
12/8/2022 1:14:12 PM
Iran said Thursday it executed a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the country's ongoing nationwide protests, the first such death penalty carried out by Tehran.
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World
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Region
11/29/2022 7:37:40 PM
A Belgian aid worker detained in Iran is on a hunger strike over the "inhuman" treatment by his captors, his family said on Tuesday, expressing worries about his failing health.
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