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Sexual violence rates double against Native American women

By Auburn Wilcox
January 23, 2019 12:00 AM
The U.S. is currently facing a little-known crisis: Native American women are twice as likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than other women in the U.S., according to theU.S. Department of Justice.
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World

Witnesses: Boko Haram returns Nigerian kidnapped schoolgirls

By Associated Press
March 21, 2018 12:00 AM
FILE - This image taken from video on Thursday Feb. 22, 2018 shows the exterior of Government Girls Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Nigeria. Nigeria's security forces failed to respond to several warnings that suspected Boko Haram extremists were on their way to a town where 110 schoolgirls were abducted last month, rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday March 20, 2018. (AP Photo, File)
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World

Amnesty: Nigeria massacre deadliest in history of Boko Haram

January 09, 2015 12:00 AM
YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of bodies — too many to count — remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested Friday is the 'deadliest massacre' in the history of Boko Haram.
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