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'Like a saviour': Japanese women fall prey to host clubs
AFP, Published on 20/12/2023
» TOKYO - Growing up, Mirai Kisaragi fled her abusive parents, survived homelessness and contemplated suicide. At 18, she met her "saviour" at one of Tokyo's hundreds of host clubs, where men entertain women.
'No job for humans': the harrowing work of content moderators in Kenya
AFP, Published on 15/06/2023
» NAIROBI - Trevin Brownie's first day as a content moderator for Facebook is etched in his memory, working out of a subcontractor's nondescript office in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
India arms Hindu village militias to combat Kashmir rebels
AFP, Published on 28/04/2023
» DHANGRI (INDIA) - Brandishing a bolt-action rifle, civil servant Sanjeet Kumar is one of 5,000 Kashmir villagers who have joined all-Hindu militia units armed and trained by Indian forces to fight off rebel attacks.
French teen charged with murder in teacher killing
AFP, Published on 24/02/2023
» BAYONNE, France: Prosecutors on Friday charged a 16-year-old boy with murder over the fatal stabbing of his Spanish teacher during class earlier this week in southwest France, his lawyer said.
Ten years after Sandy Hook, a mother's grief and healing
AFP, Published on 14/12/2022
» NEWTOWN (UNITED STATES) - Jenny Hubbard struggles to believe that 10 years have passed since her six-year-old daughter's murder at Sandy Hook Elementary during the deadliest school shooting in US history.
Memory of macabre cult massacre buried in Guyana jungle
AFP, Published on 01/12/2022
» JONESTOWN, Guyana: Deep in the Guyanese jungle, only a signpost and a nondescript plaque serve as reminders of a cult settlement where one of the most spine-chilling mass murder-suicides in modern history took place almost five decades ago.
Two decades of deadly gun violence in US schools
AFP, Published on 25/05/2022
» WASHINGTON - Fourteen students and a teacher were shot dead Tuesday when an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at their Texas elementary school, the latest in the United States' relentless cycle of school mass shootings.
The war crime that goes mostly unpunished
Published on 19/04/2022
» The dark red billboards in the Ukrainian city of Lviv present a powerful image: Russian President Vladimir Putin is on his knees, a woman stands above him and pushes a gun into his mouth. The caption reads: “I am not a beauty for you.”
Witness remembers 'model' Nuremberg trials, 75 years on
AFP, Published on 11/01/2021
» SAUVETERRE-DE-BéARN (FRANCE) - He looked Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess in the eyes and saw them plead "not guilty", without so much as blinking.
'A total lie': False ads, bad advice puts China's mums off breastfeeding
AFP, Published on 20/08/2020
» BEIJING - Unregulated, aggressive promotion of formula milk, poor medical advice, short maternity leave and workplaces hostile to nursing mothers mean China has among the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world and is falling well short of its own targets, experts warn.