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McKinney was supposed to be taking the hand of Joyce Ann Riley in marriage in Tulia, he found himself raising his own hands to march north.

A Palestinian teenager, Walid Ahmad, died in Israeli detention without charge, becoming the first under 18 to do so in Israeli custody. His family attributes his death to dysentery from poor prison ...

Ahmad, who was held for months without being charged, is the first Palestinian under 18 to die in Israeli detention, according to officials.

A 17-year-old from the West Bank who was held in an Israeli prison for six months without being charged died after collapsing ...

While in Liberia, she contracted malaria immediately followed by amoebic dysentery, a miserable experience that actually turned out to be a watershed moment for her career. "I caught something that ...

Amoebic liver abscess is the most common extraintestinal form of invasive amoebiasis. [67] About 20% of patients with liver abscess have previously had clinical dysentery. [67] Infection can ...