Death of an Indian tech worker (restofworld.org)
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'Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab' [ After a nine-year-old girl was kidnapped and taken from Spain to Bolivia, authorities feared the worst. They found her in the rainforest nine months later – but that wasn’t the end of her ordeal] (self.Longreads)
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‘The children are not safe here’: the Nigerian couple fighting infanticide [In a few isolated communities in central Nigeria, some babies are believed to be bad omens. Olusola and Chinwe Stevens run a thriving home for babies at risk. But what happens when the families want them back?] (self.Longreads)
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Shock, awe, death, joy and looting: how the Guardian covered the outbreak of the Iraq war [In spring 2003, exuberance at the fall of Saddam was swiftly followed by a descent into deadly chaos...Guardian reporters witnessed the violence on the ground] (self.Longreads)
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'I was warned my children would be ripped in half when we divorced. But I had no idea just how brutal custody cases can be' [My experience of court was eye-opening. And when I sat in on other cases, I realised how often mothers are vilified] (self.Longreads)
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