Kimel, 67, an office manager at a furniture store. Two Tamil activists who had vowed to starve themselves to death outside parliament unless Britain intervened politically in the Sri Lankan conflict were on the verge of ending their hunger strike last night as part of a deal brokered with MPs. The students, from Mitcham in south London, have been on hunger strike since Monday in Parliament Square which has been illegally occupied all week by around Tamil supporters in the largest protests since demonstrations there were banned in Supporters feared that the pair, who only began sipping liquids again late on Thursday night, were close to renal failure.
Prarameswaran Subramaniam, 28, was said last night to have agreed to begin taking liquids regularly while Sivatharsan Sivakumaraval, 21, had agreed to suspend his hunger strike to travel to New York. Other protesters, who are mainly Tamil students and young people, are to travel to meet political representatives in Washington DC, to Brussels to meet representatives of the EU's presidency and to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
Hughes said separate negotiations with police would pave the way for the protests to move to a legal, semi-permanent footing. People here want urgent political action but they realise that cannot happen if political leaders around the world cannot be mobilised.
Turkish authorities say 11 people have died after drinking bootleg liquor since March. They included three German students. A statement on Saturday from the Ministry of Agriculture, in charge of controlling alcohol sales, says authorities have been inspecting distributors since the first death on March 21 from ingesting liquor containing methyl alcohol.
After her sport utility vehicle sideswiped a van in early February, Shirley Kimel was amazed at how quickly a handful of police officers and firefighters in Winter Haven, Fla. Either they, or their insurers, are expected to pay. Such cash-per-crash ordinances tend to infuriate motorists, and they often generate bad press, but a lot of cities are finding them hard to resist.
