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Child marriage ban welcomed in Sierra Leone
BBC via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 day agoThe ministry of health estimates that a third of girls are married off before they turn 18, accounting for the country’s high number of maternal deaths -...
First cases under India’s new criminal laws filed against street vendors
The Independent via Yahoo News Singapore· 2 days agoA previous law criminalising sodomy has been removed from the new code. Sedition, for long seen as a...
What We Lost During Last Night’s Cringeworthy Debate
Time via Yahoo News Singapore· 6 days ago“They killed,” said Darrow, “because hey were made that way.” At the same time, let us not blindly and cruelly call for yet another death, he implored...
The Saipan surprise: How delicate talks led to the unlikely end of Julian Assange's 12-year saga
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 6 days agoAbout a year and a half ago, a lawyer for Julian Assange presented federal prosecutors in Virginia...
China urges 'severe punishment' for killers of citizen in Philippines
South China Morning Post via Yahoo Singapore Finance· 3 days agoChina has urged the Philippines to find and "severely punish" the killers of a kidnapped Chinese citizen in a case that has led to a diplomatic intervention by Beijing. The Chinese embassy in ...
Indonesia dismisses its chief election commissioner over sexual assault
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 day agoIndonesia’s electoral commission fired its chairman on Wednesday after finding him guilty of sexual...
Crush at India religious event kills more than 120, mostly women
CNN via Yahoo News Singapore· 2 days agoA crowd crush at a religious gathering in northern India killed more than a hundred people Tuesday,...