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AP - Myanmar freed many of its most prominent political prisoners Friday in a long-awaited step toward national reconciliation that also has been a key condition set by Western nations for easing sanctions against the country. More...

-- Cuba is set to release seven prisoners, including a dissident arrested in a notorious crackdown on the opposition in 2003, the Roman Catholic Church said. The move is a sign that Cuba will comply with a deal brokered by Spain and the Catholic Church and empty its jails of political...

-- Two prominent Cuban dissidents who had refused to leave prison were released against their wishes on Saturday as the Cuban government continues to free opposition activists arrested during a notorious crackdown in 2003. Hector Maseda Gutierrez, whose wife Laura Pollan is one of the founders...

-- Cuba will soon release two prominent political prisoners, the Catholic Church said Friday, and will allow one of them to remain in the country in a sign that it will not require jailed dissidents to go into exile as a condition of their release. Last July, the Cuban government made a deal...

Havana, Cuba -- Cuba's Roman Catholic Church on Thursday announced the names of five more prisoners to be freed who do not belong to a group of 52 jailed dissidents originally set for release. The church identified the four men and one woman as Juana Maria Mena Nieves, Domingo Mederos Ozuna...

HARARE, Zimbabwe – A Zimbabwe official says 1,500 prisoners are being released across the country under a presidential amnesty program designed to ease overcrowding. Elizabeth Banda, manager for Zimbabwe's prisons, says 150 have already been freed from Harare Central Remand Prison, the first of...

HAVANA – Talks toward a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations seemed to be a real possibility after the new presidents of both countries reached out to each other with surprisingly straightforward language about their desire to revive a relationship frozen by 50 years of cold war. Barack Obama said...

Prisoners used nail clippers to escape -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (Reuters) - Six high-risk prisoners escaped a Canadian jail last summer after spending four months chipping a path to freedom with nail clippers and...