Crime
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Senators strike bipartisan gun safety agreement
Negotiators’ next challenge: writing legislation that can get 60 votes. John Burgess Everett and Marianne LeVine Politico A group of…
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Palestinian probe finds journalist ’murdered’ by Israeli soldier
The Palestinian Authority (PA) and Al Jazeera have accused Israeli forces of killing Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11 when she…
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A Culture That Kills Its Children Has No Future
The grieving people of Uvalde, Texas, a town in the Hill Country about 80 miles west of San Antonio, now…
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Ecuador declares state of emergency in three provinces over drug violence
Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso announced on April 29 he had decreed a state of emergency for two months in three…
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On the Front Lines of the Hot Land: Mexico’s Incessant Conflict
Mexico’s crime wars are hottest in the hinterland. In this photo essay, part of a larger project on deadly violence…
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Australia’s secret interrogation centre
The detainees, suspected of being pro-Indonesian militia, say they were stripped, assaulted, deprived of food, water and sleep and forcibly…
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Umbrage as Turkey braces to hand over Jamal Khashoggi’s trial to Saudi Arabia
Turkey is set to hold the final stage of the trial in absentia of 26 suspects linked to the killing…
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Mali: Massacre by Army, Foreign Soldiers
(Nairobi) – Malian armed forces and associated foreign soldiers allegedly summarily executed an estimated 300 civilian men, some of them suspected Islamist…
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Rape as a weapon: huge scale of sexual violence endured in Ukraine emerges
Women across Ukraine are grappling with the threat of rape as a weapon of war as growing evidence of sexual violence emerges…
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Rights groups urge Turkey not to abandon Jamal Khashoggi’s murder case
Rights groups have urged Turkey not to transfer the trial of 26 Saudi nationals charged in the killing of Middle East Eye columnist Jamal Khashoggi to…
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UK’s Homes for Ukraine scheme risks operating as ‘Tinder for sex traffickers’, say charities
Michael Gove’s Homes for Ukraine scheme risks operating as “Tinder for sex traffickers” according to experts. Mark Townsend The Guardian The warning…
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‘She was facing a real monster’
In a country gripped by violence against women, a new femicide detective squad seeks to make the killers pay. Sarah…
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Justice Reform Initiative wants prison reform to support vulnerable community members
Justice Reform Initiative chairman Robert Tickner and executive director Mindy Sotiri say they want to change the conversation about who…
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1 in 3 uni students have been sexually assaulted in their lifetime.
One in three university students (30.6%) have experienced sexual assault at least once in their lifetime. Anastasia Powell The Conversation…
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Ethiopia says it will act after video shows uniformed men burning civilians alive
Ethiopia’s government said on Saturday it would act against the perpetrators after a video appeared on social media showing armed…
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Documents reveal violence, self-harm and chaos inside Melbourne’s Parkville Youth Justice Precinct
The WorkSafe documents reveal a disturbing picture of life inside the facility with both young people and the staff who…
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