Under the President’s decree, anti-rape cells provide medical tests within six hours of the complaint being made and create a national sexual offender register. “The ordinance will help expedite cases of sexual abuse against women and children. Special courts will be set up across the country to expedite hearings and …
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An interim report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Historical Historical Abuse of Children in State Care estimates that 256,000 people were abused between 1950 and 2019. This is about 40% of the 655,000 people cared for during this period. “The hurt and grief that has arisen in …
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Tropical Cyclone Yasa has strengthened rapidly in the last 24 hours with a Class 1 hurricane on the Safar-Simpson Hurricane Scale. Winds increased from 130 kilometers per hour to 250 kph (80-155 miles per hour). And the storm is just shy of Class 5 strength. On the scale used by …
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Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, was convicted of killing, raping, vandalizing and storing the bodies of nine victims at his apartment in Kanagawa prefecture, within the Tokyo limits, the court said. Shiraishi was arrested in October 2017 after police searched her home for the disappearance of a 23-year-old woman who posted a …
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Asian stocks plunged on Tuesday after an unnecessary day on Wall Street as investors waited to see if Congress could break a logjem on delivering more aid to people, businesses and local governments affected by the coronavirus epidemic. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell when Prime Minister Yoshihid Suga announced …
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