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Europe | Germany | Crimes

Uncensored Dana Loesch Blasts German Officials for Putting ‘Political Correctness’ Over Safety of Women

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During an interview on Fox News’ “The Kelly File” Wednesday evening, Dana Loesch condemned a German mayor’s response to a mass sexual assault in her city. Cologne police said that on New Year’s Eve, more than a thousand men “of Arab or North African appearance,” committed a series of crimes including sexual assaults, robberies and at least one rape. Police called the chaos “a completely new dimension of crime.” And reports indicate that at least eight of the suspects who have been identified were in the country as asylum seekers. Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker has bec
North America | United States | Crimes

Georgia Executes Only Female Death Row Inmate for the 1997 Murder of Her Husband

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After several denied appeals, including several from the United States Supreme Court, Georgia executed its only female death row inmate Wednesday morning. Kelly Renee Gissendaner died by lethal injection of pentobarbital Wednesday at 12:21 a.m. at the state prison in Jackson. She was convicted of murder in the February 1997 slaying of her husband. She conspired with her lover, who stabbed Douglas Gissendaner to death. Gissendaner was the first woman executed in the state in 70 years.
Asia | China | Corruption

Female Finance Guru Pushes for Punishment of Stock Market Manipulators

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An article by one of China's top female investigative financial experts, Liu Shuwei, has caused a stir online and prompted a quick a response from the country's stock watchdog on July 2. Her post on Weibo (China's Twitter) that day, urging for traders to be punished for short selling, received more than 400,000 views within six hours. The official China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) announced on its website on late July 2 that it will investigate suspected manipulation of stocks as experts fail to explain the market's worst collapse in years. 'Chivalrous Woman' in the Eyes of F
Europe | Kosovo | Activism

Kosovo exhibition of dresses and skirts in Pristina to remember women who suffered sexual violence in wartime

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Over 5,000 skirts and dresses have been hung out on washing lines in Kosovo in the heart of a male preserve, Pristina’s main football stadium. Many have messages written on them. All have been donated to the exhibition. They are there to draw attention to the stigma suffered by victims of wartime sexual violence, the idea of artist Alketa Xhafa-Mripa. “There is no help, there is no support, there is no status for them, then basically I thought how could I contribute in my artistic way for the survivors,” she said. Kosovo’s first female president Atifete Jahjaga donated one of her

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