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Indian court case lifts lid on kidnappings for marriage
Asia focus, Published on 02/09/2019
» Vinod Kumar Yadav still shudders when he recalls his 48-hour long marriage ordeal in December 2017. His was no match made in heaven. On the contrary, he was kidnapped, beaten up by the bride's family and hired goons and forced to tie the knot at gunpoint.
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Taylor Swift wants case to serve as example to other victims
Associated Press, Published on 09/08/2017
» DENVER -- Taylor Swift's attorneys told jurors they aren't trying to bankrupt a former Colorado DJ accused of groping the pop superstar before a concert, but they do want others to know “that you can always say no.”
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Indonesia village grapples with trash brought in by tides
Reuters, Published on 19/03/2024
» TELUK - Solikah, an Indonesian housewife living in the fishing village of Teluk, was in tears as she pointed to piles of trash strewn on a beach close to her home of 40 years.
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Judge orders Trump removed from Illinois primary ballots
New York Times, Published on 29/02/2024
» CHICAGO — A state judge in Illinois ruled Wednesday that former United States President Donald Trump had engaged in insurrection and was ineligible to appear on the state's primary ballot.
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62 dead in Noto earthquake, search operations continue
Kyodo News, Published on 03/01/2024
» KYODO - At least 62 people were killed in the powerful earthquake that jolted the Noto Peninsula and surrounding areas in central Japan on New Year's Day, with rubble and severed roads still preventing search and rescue operations on Wednesday.
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Tuna-obsessed Tunisia in a fish funk
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/07/2023
» Perhaps you are one of the more than 5,000 subscribers to "Popping Tins," an email newsletter devoted exclusively to tinned seafood. Perhaps you belong to a tinned-fish-of-the-month club, or have leafed through a tinned-fish-focused cookbook that tells you how best to cook a food already cooked.
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All aboard a floating jungle supermarket
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/07/2023
» Up the wooden gangplank in a single-file line, nearly an entire indigenous village squeezed onto the Aquidaban's front deck. The Tomarahos had taken the boat downriver to vote in Paraguay's national elections and then had slept outside for four days, waiting for the Aquidaban to take them home.
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How Paris is remaking the Seine
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/05/2023
» An electric delivery boat pushed up the Seine, past the former palaces and elegant museums and under the low-slung stone and metal bridges before turning at the Eiffel Tower and gliding to the riverbank.
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Myanmar's young pro-democracy activists fill up prisons
Published on 14/06/2023
» MAE SOT: Police in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, came for Min Thwe Thit before dawn on Feb 1, 2021. He did not know why they had come — or what was unfolding in the Southeast Asian nation.
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Singapore jails helper for biting baby
South China Morning Post, Published on 05/04/2023
» A domestic helper who was hired to care for twin babies in Singapore bit one of them out of frustration when the toddler would not go to sleep.
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