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Raped Doing Her Job, Colombian Journalist Fights for Women
In 2000, when Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima was 26, she was abducted, tortured and gang-raped while reporting a story on alleged arms trafficking by state officials and a far-right...
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(Reuters) - Twitter Inc on Thursday announced the resignation of its chief operating officer, who had been responsible for the social media company's efforts to revive flagging user growth.Ali...
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Last night Kara Swisher Re/ported that Twitter COO Ali Rowghani was on his way out, and what Swisher writes, the tech world hastens to make true. This morning Rowghani tweeted his farewell:Goodbye...
View ArticleLibya Set to Pay Reparations to Victims of Rape as a War Crime
A decree issued Wednesday in Libya would recognize rape committed during that country’s revolution as a war crime and pay rape survivors reparations, according to two sources who have worked closely...
View ArticleBowe Bergdahl Arrives at Texas Hospital
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who spent five years as a Taliban prisoner of war before being released on May 31, has arrived at an Army medical center in Texas where he will...
View ArticleAlarmed by Iraq, Iran Might Join U.S. in Defense of Baghdad, Iranian Official...
ANKARA (Reuters) - Shi'te Muslim Iran is so alarmed by Sunni insurgent gains in Iraq that it may be willing to cooperate with Washington in helping Baghdad fight back, a senior Iranian official told...
View ArticleEgypt Asks YouTube to Remove Video of Sexual Assault Victim
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has asked YouTube to remove a video showing a naked woman with injuries being dragged through Cairo's Tahrir Square after being sexually assaulted during celebrations for...
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Brazil's 'Cup to End All Cups' Has a Long Way to Go to Recoup $11.3 Billion
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Plagued by delays and opposition at home, the World Cup in Brazil might be a turning point for sporting mega-events, forcing soccer's governing body and the International...
View ArticleThe Case of the Progressive Plagiarist
In a lengthy article that was obviously thoroughly researched and was, just as obviously, a long time in the making, New Republic contributor Christopher Ketcham convincingly argues that the firebrand...
View ArticleSurge of Violence Against Women in Indian State
(Reuters) - A woman was hanged from a tree in India's state of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday and another was allegedly raped in a police station, police said, the latest incidents in a wave of crimes...
View ArticleWorld Cup Recap, Day 1: Brazil Benefits From Ref Madness
To simply peruse the box score would be to assume that Brazil’s 3–1 defeat of Croatia in Thursday’s World Cup opener was business as usual—in a nation where the conducting of business is anything but...
View ArticleObama: U.S. Reviewing Its Options to Help Iraq Fight Insurgency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday he will take several days to review options for how the United States can help Iraq deal with a militant insurgency, saying any action would...
View ArticleU.S. Joins Jolie's Call to End Use of Rape in War
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry joined Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie and the British government on Friday in calling for action to end the use of rape as a weapon of...
View ArticleRaising a Teenage Boy Can Be Tough, Especially in Baghdad
A.K., an Iraqi who works as a translator for a private company in Baghdad, was lying on the couch at home watching Jack Nicholson in As Good as It Gets a few days ago when the early evening calm was...
View ArticleIn Baghdad, a Vietnam Flashback
This is exactly what was feared. The dramatic capture of large swaths of Iraq’s territory by Islamists bent on violent Jihad and advancing fast on the nation’s capital, Baghdad, threatens an all-out...
View ArticleWhat They Said: America's Political Legacy on Iraq
As Iraq descends further into sectarian conflict and chaos, the world is witnessing what many view as a fundamental failure of American foreign policy in the region, one pressed by two successive...
View ArticleDoes This Mean Osama Bin Laden Has Won?
In the end, Osama bin Laden may achieve the goal that inspired the 9/11 attacks after all. And, strangely, one of the best ways to thwart that dream is for the United States to anger some of its...
View ArticleLinkedIn Faces Lawsuit Over Sending Unsolicited Emails to Customer Contacts
(Reuters) - A federal judge said LinkedIn Corp must face a lawsuit by customers who claimed it violated their privacy by accessing their external email accounts, downloading their contacts' email...
View ArticleUkrainian Forces Reclaim Port City From Rebels
MARIUPOL Ukraine (Reuters) - The Ukrainian flag fluttered over the regional government headquarters in the strategic port city of Mariupol on Friday after government forces reclaimed the city from...
View ArticleQuora Question: What Does a Deaf Person With a Cochlear Implant Hear?
Quora Questions are part of a partnership between Newsweek and Quora, through which we'll be posting relevant and interesting answers from Quora contributors throughout the week. Read more about the...
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