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JERUSALEM, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Israel said on Wednesday it will release Palestinian prisoners by the end of August as a 'gesture of goodwill' after a request from Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.

BANGKOK, August 5, 2008 (AFP) - Twenty years after Myanmar's military crushed a national pro-democracy uprising, Amnesty International on Tuesday urged the junta to release more than 2,000 political prisoners it says remain jailed.

UNITED NATIONS, July 23, 2008 (AFP) - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has spelled out his terms for further prisoner swaps with Israel, according to a letter from UN chief Ban Ki-moon to the president of the Security Council seen here Wednesday.

BEIRUT, July 18, 2008 (AFP) - As Hezbollah boasted of victory in this week's prisoner swap with Israel, analysts said that the exchange gave the Shiite group increased political leverage at home.

On Wednesday Israel handed over its last five Lebanese prisoners, including convicted murderer Samir Kantar, and the bodies of 199 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters.

BEIRUT, July 18, 2008 (AFP) - Thousands of people took part in a memorial service in Beirut on Friday for eight Hezbollah fighters killed in the 2006 war with Israel and whose bodies were returned to their homeland two days earlier.

AABEY, July 17, 2008 (AFP) - Samir Kantar, Lebanon's longest serving prisoner who was freed by Israel in a swap, said on Thursday he had no regrets over the triple murder three decades ago that put him behind bars.

AABEY, July 17, 2008 (AFP) - Samir Kantar, Lebanon's longest serving prisoner released by Israel as part of a swap deal, said on Thursday he had no regrets over the killings for which he was convicted.

TEHRAN, July 17, 2008 (AFP) - Iran said on Thursday that Israel's release of Lebanese prisoners in a swap with the Shiite group Hezbollah was an achievement both for the movement and the Lebanese people, the state news agency IRNA reported.

BEIRUT, July 16, 2008 (AFP) - Five Lebanese prisoners freed by Israel arrived to a hero's welcome in Lebanon Wednesday, hours after Hezbollah handed over the bodies of two Israeli soldiers seized by its guerrillas two years ago.