KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 16 (Bernama) — In conjunction with the Deepavali celebration next week, the Prisons Department is allowing family members of prisoners, as well as inmates at the reform centres and Henry Gurney School to visit them. According to a statement from the department issued today, t …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The last U.S. prisoner of war from America’s waning Afgan war, was handed over to U.S. Special Operations forces in Afghanistan on Saturday in a dramatic swap for five Taliban detainees who will be handed over from Guantanamo Bay prison to Qatar. Army Sergeant Bowe …
Read More »Boko Haram rebels say ready to exchange kidnapped Nigerian girls for prisoners
PARIS (Reuters) – Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Nigeria’s Islamist Boko Haram militants, said on Monday he would release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters in exchange for prisoners, according to a video seen by Agence France-Presse. The French news agency said the 17-mi …
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