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In Afghanistan domestic abuse can seem like the norm and women are often seen as little more than household chattel
World
12.08.2024
Kabul murder highlights Afghan women's plight
The largest human rights defense organization in the United States, the ACLU, has promised to file a lawsuit to block the Alabama bill's implementation, although the bill's backers have expressly said they want to bring the case to the Supreme Court
World
12.08.2024
Alabama senate passes toughest abortion ban bill in US
Investors are looking ahead to a possible meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at the G20 next month
World
12.08.2024
Asian markets tick up after Trump tweets but uncertainty remains
D-Day veteran Bill Sisk, 92, says he was too young to be a hero, despite landing on Utah Beach and fighting across France and Germany
World
12.08.2024
At 17, Bill Sisk fought from the shores of Normandy to Germany
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The cast of "The Big Bang Theory" press their handprints into the cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre
World 12.08.2024
Curtains for "The Big Bang Theory," unlikely ratings giant
A hotel on the banks of the river Ilz in Passau, southern Germany, were police are investigating the baffling deaths of three people found in a room of the Bavarian hotel with crossbow bolts in their bodies.
World 12.08.2024
Possible suicide pact in macabre German crossbow murders
A Claude Monet painting from his celebrated "Meules" (Haystacks) series drew $110.7 million at Sotheby's in New York in an auction record for the French Impressionist master
World 12.08.2024
Monet painting draws $110.7 mn at New York auction
The research shows that it is possible for coral to survive and even thrive in waters that are warmer and more acidic than where coral usually lives
World 12.08.2024
'Super corals' give glimmer of hope for world's dying reefs
British MPs have already rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal three times
World 12.08.2024
British govt to put forward Brexit bill in June
St. Peter's Square in the Vatican is pictured on Easter Sunday
World 12.08.2024
US Catholic abuse victims sue Vatican to name predatory priests
Former Brazilian president Michel Temer's case is part of the sprawling Operation Car Wash scandal, which has uncovered a vast network of bribes paid by large construction companies such as Odebrecht to politicians to obtain contracts
World 12.08.2024
Brazil court orders Temer's release for a second time
Susana Villaran (pictured September 2014), Lima's mayor from 2014-2018, is accused of taking millions of dollars from Odebrecth to finance a recall referendum in 2013 -- which she won -- and from OAS for a failed re-election bid in 2014
World 12.08.2024
Former Lima mayor jailed in Peru Odebrecht case
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has been accused by the US of escalating a crackdown against the opposition
World 12.08.2024
US at UN warns of escalating crackdown in Venezuela
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