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Three suicide bombers target Chad village market
Three suicide bombers carried out coordinated attacks Saturday at a village market in Chad, killing 27 people and wounding about 80 others, security sources said. The bombers struck three different parts of the busy weekly market in Loulou Fou, which is on an island in Lake Chad near the border with Nigeria.
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Did "electrohypersensitivity" drive Jenny Fry to try to commit suicide?
Is there anything to the parents’ claims? I’ve discussed the claims of “electro-hypersensitivity” (frequently abbreviated as EHS) before as being at the very least highly implausible, particularly the focus on wifi. In the modern world, we are bathed in electromagnetic waves from many sources, not just wifi. There are radio waves, mobile phone radiation, electromagnetic waves from electrical appliances and computers themselves, and many, many other sources.
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Brain study seeks roots of suicide
A clinical trial will look at the neurological structure and function of people who have attempted suicide. By Sara Reardon.
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Japan's Disposable Workers: Overworked to Suicide
“The cause of my depression is definitely overwork.” wrote Naoya Nishigaki, 28, a system engineer, on his blog.“I can’t do anything. I just feel irritated, exhausted, and disgusted. I try to suppress these feelings with medication, but I feel like my medication has become less and less effective lately. I’m so worried. What should I do? “ Naoya committed “karojishi” or suicide triggered by overworking in 2006.
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Suicide bomber 'blew himself up because of stress', says Ibrahim Abdeslam's family
The mother of Paris suicide bomber Ibrahim Abdeslam - whose two brothers are also suspects - has said her son "did not mean to kill anyone" and his family believes he blew himself up because of "stress". Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31, detonated his suicide vest outside the Comptoir Voltaire cafe on Friday night, but did not kill anyone other than himself. His brother Mohammed was arrested in Brussels on Saturday and a third sibling, Salah, is Europe's...
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Veterans Day: Suicide has caused more American casualties than wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
On a day like any other in America, former Navy Master at Arms Daniel Faddis, 28, put a Sig Sauer 9 millimeter pistol to his head and shot himself. Faddis took his own life on June 20, 2012 -- adding his name to the somber roll call of 22 U.S. military veterans who die by suicide every day, more than double the civilian rate. Since that day, some 27,258 of those we honor for their service on this Veterans Day have died by their own hand.
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Despair, American Style
Searching for economic and cultural reasons why middle-aged white Americans are dying sooner.
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Gun Deaths Are Mostly Suicides
When Americans think about deaths from guns, we tend to focus on homicides. But the problem of gun suicide is inescapable: More than 60 percent of people in this country who die from guns die by suicide.
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Tragic deaths expose Wall Street's ruthless culture
In retrospect, it was around Easter that John Hughes began to think something unusual was going on with his middle son, Thomas, a 29-year-old investment banker. John's former wife, Marypat, had arranged for brunch at the Yale Club, in Manhattan, with her three sons: Thomas, who worked at the Wall Street advisory firm Moelis & Co.; John III, a young lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell; and Joseph, an undergraduate at Fordham.
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Jim Carrey -- Girlfriend Cathriona White Commits Suicide
Jim Carrey released a statement -- "I am shocked and deeply saddened by the passing of my sweet Cathriona. She was a truly kind and delicate Irish flower, too sensitive for this soil, to whom loving and being loved was all that sparkled. My heart goes out to her family and friends and to everyone who loved and cared about her. We have all been hit with a lightning bolt."
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Cathriona White, Ex-Girlfriend of Jim Carrey, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
The 29-year-old Irish-born makeup artist had been in an on-again, off-again relationship with Carrey, 53, since they first met in 2012.
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Attack on Afghan soccer match kills nine, wounds over 50
A suicide car bombing killed at least nine people and wounded more than 50 at a cricket match in Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said. The attack took place in southeastern Paktika province, on the border with Pakistan, the officials said. Authorities initially said the game being played at the time of the blast was soccer, but an interior ministry statement later said it was a cricket match. The attack probably targeted members of the local government watching the game, officials said.
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Teen charged with encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself
At first glance, the text messages appear to show a disturbing case of cyberbullying: one teen urging another to kill himself. But the texts were not sent by a school bully. They were from a 17-year-old girl to her boyfriend, whom she called the love of her life. "You can't think about it. You just have to do it. You said you were gonna do it. Like I don't get why you aren't," Michelle Carter allegedly wrote to Conrad Roy...
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Elderly men have the highest suicide rate - and ageism stops us from doing something about it
The most recent Australian suicide statistics from 2013 show that, out of the whole population, men aged 85 years and over have the highest suicide rates. While the attention these figures have garnered is a positive sign, this is hardly a new phenomenon. Over 38 men in every 100,000 of that age group die by suicide, which is more than double the rate among men under 35. The rate is around seven times higher than in women of all ages.
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Michelle Carter's and Conrad Roy's messages before suicide
Conrad Roy, who was battling with depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts, was seeking for help but instead was encouraged by his narcissistic 18-year-old girlfriend Michelle Carter to finish the business. When Conrad started to worry about the consequences of his suicide, Michelle promised it’s not a big deal. “Everyone will be sad for a while, but they will get over it and move on. They won’t be in the depression,” she wrote.
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South Korea: Suicide Nation
People & Power investigates South Korea's disturbing rise in suicides, particularly among the elderly.
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Man trying to stop suicide plummets to his death
A man fell to his death while attempting to prevent a teenager from jumping off the ledge of a university dorm in Hawaii.
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‘Get back in': Teen charged with pressuring boyfriend to commit suicide
A high school senior faces involuntary manslaughter charges in Massachusetts for urging her boyfriend to commit suicide, according to police. Michelle Carter, 18, is accused not only of failing to seek help for Conrad Roy III — who, police say, Carter knew intended to commit suicide — but also of texting him during the act and pressuring him to go through with it, according to authorities.
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Healthy retired nurse ends her life because old age 'is awful'
A healthy former nurse has ended her life in a Swiss suicide clinic because her experiences of caring for the elderly showed her old age is no fun.
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Principal commits suicide amid Common Core test scandal
The principal of an innovative West Harlem public school killed herself the day after her students took the state Common Core exams — which were later tossed out because she cheated
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