Survivors
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Search and rescue efforts are ongoing for the missing yacht in Palermo. Divers, a motorboat and a helicopter from Catania, one of Sicily’s bigger cities, have been deployed to look for the six missing people above the surface of the sea. Cave divers are arriving from Napoli, as well as Cagliari and Sassari in Sardinia,…
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Winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Beatrice Fihn, told newsmen at a press conference in New York that the United Nations will continue in its effort to eliminate nuclear weapons, and urged nations to embrace the organization’s Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Image shows Beatrice Finn (center) at the UN event in New…
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In 2009, more than 150 people were killed at Conakry’s football stadium when a peaceful opposition protest was attacked by the ruling junta’s elite police. In the crackdown that followed, “officers of the law” allegedly raped and assaulted many more on the streets of Conakry. Over 100 women were raped and hundreds of people were injured…
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Talking about the death penalty for capital crimes, rape is a capital offence which, in my opinion, deserves execution. We shall pay no attention to whatever factors that push one to rape another – male or female, psychological or otherwise. Rape comes with a stigma that tortures the victims every night and day. It is…
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