Putin loyalist posts chilling death threat to Russian opposition leader

MOSCOW – A year after the assassination of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, the man many blame for the killing has posted a video of Nemtsov’s closest ally in the crosshairs of a rifle. The 16-second video posted Monday by Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechnya republic, shows opposition leader Mikhail Kasyanov as viewed […]











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After escaping, some of the Islamic State’s former sex slaves were forced to have ‘virginity tests’

Some women enslaved by the Islamic State were forced to undergo grim procedures even after they escaped the jihadists' clutches. According to a dispatch from a researcher at Human Rights Watch, a group of unmarried women from the persecuted Yazidi sect were compelled to undergo invasive tests by officials in Iraq's Kurdistan regional government. "Kurdistan officials took […]











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These are the countries letting down Syrian refugees

A new report from Oxfam finds that many of the world's richest countries are not doing their fair share in  response to the ongoing crisis in Syria – even if they are directly involved in the country's military conflict. The British branch of the charity released the report  Monday as part of an appeal to the […]











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On eve of Iowa, Hillary Clinton chides China on women’s rights. Here’s why.

A day before the Iowa caucuses get underway, amid a stream of posts about the state, Hillary Clinton on Sunday blasted Chinese authorities for reportedly shuttering a women's legal clinic in Beijing. In a message to her  5.26 million Twitter followers, Clinton referenced her keynote speech at the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on […]











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For the first time in 28 years, a baby has been born in this Italian town

Since the 1980s, the Italian town of Ostana had not seen the birth of a single baby. But last week, a dream came true, as the mayor of the small town said. A baby was born. The first in 28 years. According to La Stampa, the town has only 85 inhabitants, including newborn Pablo. Its population has […]











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