Death
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World
U.N. Cites a Lower Death Toll Among Women and Children in Gaza
The United Nations has begun citing a much lower death toll for women and children in Gaza, relying on a…
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World
Anti-Monarchy Activist in Thailand Dies After Hunger Strike
Netiporn Sanesangkhom, 28, supported abolishing the law that prohibits criticizing royalty and wanted to push the authorities to stop jailing…
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News
Most Wrongful Death Lawsuits Tied to Astroworld Festival Are Settled
The rapper Travis Scott and the concert promoter Live Nation faced 10 suits after the 2021 tragedy. One case from…
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Food
Widening Racial Disparities Underlie Rise in Child Deaths in the U.S.
New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by…
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World
Court in Iran Sentences Prominent Rapper to Death, His Lawyer Says
The rapper, Toomaj Salehi, was initially arrested after releasing music in support of the protests that roiled the country in…
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US
Black Prisoners Face Higher Rate of Botched Executions, Study Finds
Lethal injections of Black people in the United States were botched more than twice as often as those of white…
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News
Who ‘Won’ Covid? It Depends How You Measure.
Twenty months ago, in July 2022, I wrote a long essay sketching what I called the “pretty brutal” endemic future…
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World
Putin Breaks Silence on Navalny’s Death, Calling It an ‘Unfortunate Incident’
President Vladimir V. Putin described the death of the imprisoned opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny as an “unfortunate incident” and…
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World
Iran’s 2022 Protest Crackdown Included Killings, Torture and Rape, U.N. Finds
A fact-finding mission looking into the demonstrations that followed the death of Mahsa Amini found brutality and rejected Iran’s version…
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News
Guy Alexandre, Transplant Surgeon Who Redefined Death, Dies at 89
His willingness to remove kidneys from brain-dead patients increased the organs’ viability while challenging the line between living and dead.