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Around 120 million girls around the world, close to one in 10, have been raped or sexually assaulted by the time they turn 20,...
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After surviving a harrowing rape attempt, Any Hurtado took up boxing — and found herself surrounded by other Ecuadoran women using their fists for...
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Sexual violence now may be prosecuted as a crime against humanity in Colombia, where President Juan Manuel Santos signed a law to stem assaults...
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The cry of the grandmother was gut-wrenching as she watched the burial of her grandson, the second killed in just days in a horrific...
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An internal power struggle within a drug cartel has left 28 people dead in gunfights in Mexico’s northeastern coast this week, authorities said Thursday....
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Violent feuds broke out Sunday in Turkish local elections for village and neighbourhood leaders, leaving eight people dead and 13 wounded, media reports said....
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At least 20 people died when extremists threw hand grenades at a crowd of mourners during a funeral service in the Central African Republic...
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Separatists from China’s northwest region of Xinjiang orchestrated the attack on a train station which left 29 dead, the Xinhua news agency reported Sunday,...
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A mass stabbing at a Chinese train station late Saturday left 28 people dead and 113 injured in a “violent terrorist attack”, state media...
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A Brazilian police commander said Tuesday that there was strong evidence that fellow officers may have been involved in a spate of killings in...