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Mauritania and Slavery: An Epidemic
Abdel Nasser Ould Ethmane received his first slave when he was seven years old. It was the afternoon of his circumcision - his right of passage into early manhood - and he had the liberty to pick any gift imaginable. “It was as if I were picking out a toy,” he recalls. "It was as if he were a thing - a thing that pleased me."
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10 Eerie Slave Hauntings From The Deep South
The northeast of the US has plenty of hauntings due to the length of time Europeans have been settled there. The South, however, has its dark history of slavery to bring up its ghost numbers. Given that millions of people were dehumanized, abused, and killed on the South’s plantations, it’s no surprise that tales of angry spirits abound. And, yes, some of them want revenge.
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America's 11 Most Powerful Prison Gangs
Several are tied to Mexican drug cartels.
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Smallpox: Last refuge of an ultimate killer
If a virus has killed hundreds of millions of people, why keep it alive? Two places on Earth guard the last remaining vials of smallpox, but as Rachel Nuwer discovers, they may not be there for long.
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China's 'airpocalypse' kills 350,000 to 500,000 each year
Between 350,000 and 500,000 Chinese die prematurely each year because of the country's disastrous air pollution, says China's former health minister
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10 Tragedies Caught on Film
British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck. From Franz Reichelt's death jump off the Eiffel Tower to the Hindenburg Disaster, here are 10 tragedies caught on film.
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21 Images of Where Children Sleep Around the World Paints A Powerful Picture of Inequality
These images offer a window into a world you've never seen.
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NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show
Snowden documents show agency is collecting billions of records on whereabouts of mobile devices.
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World’s Deadliest Drug: Photos and Video Inside a Krokodil Cookhouse
Photographer Emanuele Satolli has spent the past year chronicling a group of Russians addicted to krokodil, a lethal opiate made with ingredients from hardware stores and pharmacies that causes skin to become scaly, rot and fall off the bone.
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The Spy Who Saved The World—Then Tried To Destroy It
Meet the Russian spy who saved the world from disaster during the Cuban Missile Crisis—and then almost provoked the West into launching a preemptive nuclear attack.
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Nearly 30 million people in slavery.
Nearly 30 million people are living in slavery across the globe, many of them men, women and children trafficked by gangs for sex work and unskilled labor, according to a global slavery
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Escaping North Korea: The Long Road to Freedom
Over a decade ago, a former North Korean military officer fled south after being accused of negligence and threatened with death. Now he coordinates the escapes of fellow North Koreans. But the price of freedom is often the lives of loved ones left behind.
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North Korea using political prisoners for chemical weapons tests: U.S. report
North Korea is using political prisoners held in its extensive gulag network as subjects for chemical weapons tests, according to a report in the U.S.
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I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss
Meem, 9, works 12-hour shifts at a factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She dreams of becoming a sewing operator, buying more hair clips and helping her family.
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For sale: Chinese babies and children
As many as 70,000 Chinese children are abducted and sold each year. Some end up in the US.
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Hundreds feared dead from Italy boat
At least 130 African migrants have died and many more are missing after a boat carrying them to Europe sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.
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KFC Invented A Way For Americans To Eat Fried Chicken From The Cupholders Of Their Cars
KFC's new "Go Cups" let you eat fried chicken in your car.
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World's most dangerous food destinations
A high murder rate, common kidnappings, and violent riots are probably not things that anyone wishes to see at the top of a travel description. But what if you were to find out that along with the potential risk of danger, these destinations could provide you with exceptional local eats? Could the quest for finding new culinary adventures make you overcome the fear of hazardous situations?
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Criminal Pulls Gun In Back Seat of Police Car
An intoxicated man pulled a loaded handgun on two Metro Transit police officers while in the back of their squad car, after a pat-down by the officers failed to find the weapon.
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Tropical Storm Karen headed for U.S. Gulf Coast
The first cyclone to threaten the U.S. coast this year formed over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday and was forecast to sweep through offshore oil installations before hitting the mainland between Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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Edward Snowden To Reveal NSA's 'Central Role In The US Assassination Program'
Over the weekend, investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill told an audience in Brazil that he and Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald are working on a project involving "how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role in the U.S. assassination program."
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Sonar Noise Behind Whale Deaths
The deaths of over 100 melon-headed whales, which stranded on the shores of a lagoon in northwest Madagascar in 2008, were likely primarily triggered by a form of sonar being deployed by an ExxonMobil survey vessel, according to a scientific review panel.
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FBI shuts alleged online drug marketplace, Silk Road
U.S. law enforcement authorities have shut down "Silk Road," an anonymous Internet marketplace for illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine and criminal activities such as murder for hire, and arrested its alleged owner.
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Report: Cheaper and purer illegal substances suggest global war on drugs is failing
The global war on drugs is failing, new research suggests, as the price of heroin, cocaine and cannabis has fallen while their purity has increased. Using seven sets of government drug surveillance data, a team of Canadian and U.S. researchers reviewed drug supply in the United States, Europe and Australia and drug production in regions such as Latin America, Afghanistan and Southeast Asia.
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NSA employee spied on nine women for six years without detection
A National Security Agency employee was able to secretly intercept the phone calls of nine foreign women for six years without ever being detected by his managers, the agency's internal watchdog has revealed.