Cuba pardons 3,522 prisoners ahead of Pope Francis visit

afpPublished Sep 11, 2015, 12:00 AM IST

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HAVANA

Cuba government pardoned 3,522 prisoners, the most since the 1959 revolution, as a gesture of goodwill ahead of Pope Francis's visit to the communist island, the official daily Granma said on Friday.

"On the occasion of the visit by His Holiness Pope Francis, the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba (the highest governmental body) ... agreed to pardon 3,522 prisoners, chosen due to the nature of the acts for which they were jailed, their behaviour in prison, the time of punishment and health concerns," the newspaper said.

Hungarian journo goes rogue

The Goan Network

Published Sep 9, 2015, 12:00 AM IST

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Agencies Budapest A camerawoman for a private television channel in Hungary was fired late on Tuesday after videos of her kicking and tripping up migrants fleeing police, including a man carrying a child, spread in the media and on the internet. In separate videos, the woman, who was not named by the channel, is seen kicking a girl and tripping up the man carrying a child as hundreds of migrants, many of them Syrian refugees, broke away from police on Hungary's southern…