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02.09.2009, 07:03
Romanian prosecutors have shut down a private fertility clinic, and its owners – two Israeli doctors – are now facing up to ten years in prison for allegedly paying women to donate their eggs.
11.06.2009, 14:06
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has demanded that a four-year-old-girl be saved from almost certain death. The girl’s parents, who are Jehovah's Witnesses, were preventing hospital doctors from treating her.
24.08.2010, 16:45
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Although the practice of female genital mutilation is illegal in the UK, thousands are considered to be at risk annually – and no one has ever been convicted of the crime.
30.05.2009, 08:53
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Proposing a solution to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS in Swaziland, which has the highest rate of HIV/AIDS in the world, has sparked public outrage and threatens to cost a government official his job.
08.04.2009, 21:23
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The unbearable cruelty of Nikita Chemezov’s parents has placed the boy on the edge, struggling between life and death. The methods used in ‘disciplining’ the child have even shocked old-salt policemen.
04.03.2010, 05:04
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Seven-year-old Ivan Skorobogatov, adopted by an American family from Russia's Chelyabinsk region, was allegedly killed by his adoptive parents, TASS news agency reports.
23.04.2010, 10:10
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A group of US lawmakers is urging Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to lift the freeze on child adoptions by American citizens - particularly for applications already being processed.
19.07.2010, 08:54
Physical penalties are still widely used by teachers in India, despite being illegal, but the story of a teenager who committed suicide after being caned at school is pushing India to criminalize corporal punishment.
17.03.2010, 09:11
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Since the presidential campaign ended, the issue of language has become divisive in Ukraine as Viktor Yanukovich is seen as a pro-Russian leader. Local nationalists want to protect their country from Russification.
17.08.2009, 11:43
There is a small fairyland in which young Egyptian men head out to build their dreams, far from the gray reality back at home.
Published: 05 July, 2009, 17:09
It is initiation season, the time when many South African males are sent away boys and expected to return as circumcised men. Some don't make the cut and end up in critical condition. Some don't return at all.
Submitting to the savagery of circumcision has nothing to do with manhood. True monogamous relationship with his wife and support for his children are measures of true manhood.