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Opinion: I am starving myself until Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan is taken out of solitary confinement
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Since late spring 2015, he has been held by Turkey under total isolation from the outside world. This amounts to torture under international human rights standards

Nobby the polar bear cools down at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park during unseasonably warm weather. The park was covered in a blanket of snow at the end of February 2018 as the UK was hit by sub-zero temperatures.

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