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Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) -- Authorities in Venezuela are fighting to regain control of a prison complex where armed inmates and troops have been clashing for days. Some 2,500 inmates have been transferred from the Rodeo I prison to other prisons, Venezuelan Interior Minister Tareck El Aissami...

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...