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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, left, escorted by his bodyguards as he walks between the crowds (tmg1)

Israel says it has prisoner swap deal with Hezbollah

San Fransisco Chronicle (07-08) 04:00 PDT Jerusalem -- Israel's military said it began digging up the bodies of Lebanese fighters Monday after the government struck a deal with Hezbollah guerrillas to swap five living... (photo: AP / Hussein Malla)

A girl supporter of Hezbollah holds a picture of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah during a Hezbollah "Victory over Israel" rally, in Beirut´s bombed-out suburbs, in Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 22, 2006. Nasrallah said Friday his guerril

Israel, Hezbollah Move Toward Prisoner Swap

Chosunilbo Israel and the Islamic guerrilla group Hezbollah in Lebanon are moving toward a prisoner swap. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. An Israeli negotiator went to Europe to receive a... (photo: AP/Petros Karadjias)

Prison food 'should be enjoyable'

BBC News Prisoners, patients and public sector workers should be offered "appetising and enjoyable menus" at mealtimes, the government says. Canteens should provide healthier food based on "choice and... (photo: WN / james)

Diego Garcia: looking west over the Indian Ocean from Cannon Point at sundown. jsa1

British lawmakers to check on possible prisoner transfers
International Herald Tribune : British lawmakers pledged Sunday to study the movements of planes and ships traveling to the remote British outpost Diego Garcia amid persistent suspicion that it is used by the U.S. authorities to... (photo: public domain)

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A Lebanese activisit from the leftist Popular Democratic Party, attaches pictures of Samir Kantar, who is serving multiple life terms in a 1979 infiltration attack on a northern Israeli town, as she decorates with other activists the Martyrs square in the northern city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Sunday June 29, 2008. Israel's Cabinet voted overwhelmingly on Sunday in favor of an emotionally charged deal to swap a notorious Lebanese prisoner for the bodies of two soldiers declared earlier in the day to be dead. Hezbollah said Sunday that the Israeli government's approval of a prisoner swap shows the strength of the Lebanese militant group as its supporters and allies began preparations for major celebrations

Hezbollah confirms prisoner swap

BBC News The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group has said it will hand over two captured Israeli soldiers in exchange for five Lebanese prisoners. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah... (photo: AP / Mohammed Zaatari)

Israelis hold banners of captured Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser,right, and Eldad Regev outside the cabinet meeting in the Israeli Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem Sunday, June 29, 2008.

Israeli Cabinet approves Hezbollah prisoner deal

San Diego JERUSALEM - Israel's Cabinet overwhelmingly backed a deal Sunday with Hezbollah to swap a Lebanese prisoner convicted of a brutal 1979 attack for the bodies of two... (photo: AP / Dan Balilty)

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Drunk driver gets 43 years in prison for killing mom, children

CNN TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- A Michigan man was sentenced to 43 years in prison Friday for driving the wrong way on an interstate and slamming his pickup truck into a minivan,... (photo: WN / patricia)

Baghdad's walls keep peace but feel like prison
The State BAGHDAD -- Baghdad hasn't been this quiet in years. But the respite from bloodshed comes at a high price. Up to 20 feet high in some sections. Rows after rows of barrier... (photo: U.S. Army / Spc. Charles W. Gill )

Prisoner's mother accused of trying to smuggle drugs

Buffalo News THOROLD, Ont. - The 68-year-old mother of a southern Ontario man serving a life sentence for a series of... (photo: Public Domain)

Australian Schapelle Corby, center, is escorted by prisoner guards (mj1)

Depressed Schapelle Corby taken to hospital from prison

The Australian CONVICTED drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been hospitalised, suffering depression. A Kerobokan prison official said Corby was taken to a Bali hospital yesterday... (photo: AP / Firdia Lisnawati)

Govt failing to deal with problem of drugs in prison

Belfast Telegraph The Government is failing to deal with the problem of drugs in Irish prisons, according to a report being published by a campaign... (photo: Public domain photo / )

Israeli soldiers escort blindfolded Palestinian prisoners from an armored vehicle after a military operation in the southern Gaza Strip, on the Israel-Gaza Border, Friday, May 23, 2008

Israeli army abuses Palestinian prisoners
Gulf Daily News JERUSALEM: An Israeli anti-torture watchdog said in a report yesterday Israeli soldiers routinely abuse bound Palestinian detainees and it accused the military of... (photo: AP / Tsafrir Abayov)