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‘Judith never came home’: deadly fate of ‘disappeared’ women in Peru
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Judith Machaca was last seen on her way home from work in her home town of Tacna in southern Peru. The environmental engineering student had been working part-time at a mobile phone shop and would always send a messag...
‘Narcos are looking for me’: deadly threats to Peru’s indigenous leaders
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“We’re looking for you, dead or alive,” is one of the daily threats that Herlín Odicio receives on his mobile phone. The leader of the indigenous Cacataibo people in Peru’s central Amazon has been forced into hiding f...
‘A bloodbath’: refugees reel from deadly Melilla mass crossing
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Seconds after Mohamed stepped on to Spanish soil, he turned around to see how his friends had fared along the metres-high chain link fence that slices off the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco. “It was horrible,...
‘A bloodbath’: refugees reel from deadly Melilla mass crossing
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Seconds after Mohamed stepped on to Spanish soil, he turned around to see how his friends had fared along the metres-high chain link fence that slices off the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco. “It was horrible,...
‘A deadly combination’: excessive heat adds to Arizona opioid epidemic’s toll
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Andy Brack was out cold with his head slumped back on the driver’s seat of a white pickup truck, a faint blue tinge around his lips. His friend, Ellen, had called 911 after the 50-year-old lost consciousness while dri...
‘A sample of hell’: Rohingya forced to rebuild camps again after deadly floods
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The process of rebuilding has begun once again for Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh after a week of heavy rains made thousands homeless. The chest-high waters that flowed through parts of Cox’s Bazar ha...
‘Ek is bang!’: body-cam video wys die dodelike inhegtenisneming van die swart man in Louisiana
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Louisiana staat troepe is vasgevang op die liggaam-kamera video verbluffend, met 'n swart man geslaan en gesleep terwyl hy om verskoning gevra het dat hy hulle op 'n vinnige jaagtog gelei het - beeldmateriaal van die man se laaste oomblikke wat die Associat ...
‘It’s unfathomable’: Israel mourns after deadly crush at holy festival
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Signs of the night’s tragedy were scattered everywhere. Crushed plastic bottles lined the narrow sloped path, barely 3 of 4 metres across. A metal handrail lay bent, completely ripped from the ground by the force of t...
‘Lives are at stake’: hacking of US hospitals highlights deadly risk of ransomware
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Verlede week, the US government warned that hospitals across the US have been targeted by an aggressive ransomware campaign originating from North Korea since 2021. Ransomware hacks, in which attackers encrypt computer ...
'Hulle vermoor die persoon twee keer': die polisie het valshede versprei nadat hulle dodelike geweld gebruik het, ontleding bevind
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Op die dag van George Floyd se moord, Die polisie in Minneapolis het 'n kort persverklaring gepubliseer met die titel "Man sterf na mediese voorval tydens polisieinteraksie". Die nuuswaarskuwing aan 25 May het gesê dat 'n naamlose man "aan b..
‘Too much suffering’: survivors talk of quake’s deadly toll in Afghanistan
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Sitting on a hill overlooking the remote Gayan district, Abdullah Abed pointed towards several freshly dug graves. “They screamed for help,” he said of his son Farhadullah, 10, and daughter Basrina, 18. “We tried to s...
‘Too much suffering’: survivors talk of quake’s deadly toll in Afghanistan
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Sitting on a hill overlooking the remote Gayan district, Abdullah Abed pointed towards several freshly dug graves. “They screamed for help,” he said of his son Farhadullah, 10, and daughter Basrina, 18. “We tried to s...
‘Too much suffering’: survivors talk of quake’s deadly toll in Afghanistan
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Sitting on a hill overlooking the remote Gayan district, Abdullah Abed pointed towards several freshly dug graves. “They screamed for help,” he said of his son Farhadullah, 10, and daughter Basrina, 18. “We tried to s...
‘Too much suffering’: survivors talk of quake’s deadly toll in Afghanistan
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Sitting on a hill overlooking the remote Gayan district, Abdullah Abed pointed towards several freshly dug graves. “They screamed for help,” he said of his son Farhadullah, 10, and daughter Basrina, 18. “We tried to s...
‘We have to do something’: calls mount for Texas gun control laws after latest deadly attack
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Texas leaders are under growing pressure to increase gun control measures in the face of data indicating the state leads the US in mass shooting deaths, while Republicans have steadily eased restrictions on weapons an...
A deadly ideology: how the ‘great replacement theory’ went mainstream
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Aan 14 Mei, in Buffalo, New York, 10 Black people were shot and killed in a grocery store. The 18-year-old alleged shooter is said to have endorsed the “great replacement theory” – the racist premise that white America...