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Deadly Attack Exposes Growing Threat in Mexico: the Military

Uniformed soldiers shot and killed unarmed civilians, including an American, then blocked medics from providing care, a top government official said. To many Mexicans, such abuse is all too familiar.

Taliban Bar Women From U.N., Threatening Afghanistan’s Last Lifeline

The Afghan government this week barred female Afghan employees at the United Nations from working in Afghanistan, according to officials, a move threatening one of the last lifelines of badly needed aid in a country where millions risk starvation.

Sentencing in China’s ‘Chained Woman’ Trafficking Case Revives Online Outrage

A Chinese court on Friday sentenced six people to prison for human trafficking and abuse of a woman found chained to a wall in a shack last year, in a case that has provoked public outrage, dealt a blow to government credibility, and reopened debate about the status of women in China.

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