Five Palestinians, who were among the 26 Palestinian detainees Israel decided to release, arrived Tuesday at the Erez crossing point between Gaza and Israel on their way home, witnesses said.
An Israeli ministerial committee approved on Sunday a list of 26 Palestinian prisoners to be released on Tuesday amid the renewal of the peace talks between the two sides.
Over 2,000 prisoners were released in Sri Lanka on Thursday to mark World Prisoner's Day, an official said here, assuring that the offenders were incarcerated for minor offenses.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday expressed deep concerns about Israel's new settlement plans.
Al-Qaida militant group in Iraq on Tuesday claimed responsibility for recent coordinated attacks on two prisons near the capital Baghdad, the group said in a statement posted on an Islamist website.
At the age of 88, Li Lishui still remembers every detail of his heroic assistance to an Allied prisoner of war (POW) held almost seven decades ago at a Japanese internment camp in northeast China's Liaoning Province.
The U.S. government welcomes Myanmar's release of over 90 prisoners under a fresh presidential amnesty order, a spokesman said here on Tuesday.
A strike, rallies and protests on Sunday dominated the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, in support of a hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons which protested against a Palestinian inmate's death one day ago.