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Kim Jong-un is one step closer to being charged with crimes against humanity
The World
November 20, 2014
North Koreans refer to their supreme leader Kim Jong-Un is the "respected marshal." But that didn't stop the United Nations General Assembly from passing a resolution on North Korea’s human rights record that brings Kim one step closer to being charged with crimes against humanity.
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The Eric Garner case created anger and frustration, but also has protesters 'really energized'
The World
December 05, 2014
Demonstrators have marched in cities across the US to protest a grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer for the killing of Eric Garner. But while protesters say they're angry and fearful, there are also encouraging signs in how black communities have rallied to each other.
Music
A playlist for Mexico's missing student-teachers
The World
December 11, 2014
Forty-three student-teachers from the town of Ayotzinapa in Mexico are still missing. The case has caused massive protests in Mexico and beyond, and Mexican-American radio host Catalina Maria Johnson decided to put together a playlist in honor of the missing.
Development
In Pakistan, women can still be sent to prison for choosing who they love
The World
December 24, 2014
A women in Pakistan chose the man she loved instead of the man her family wanted her to marry. That's why she's in prison.
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Russian dissident Alexei Navalny avoids jail, but his brother becomes a bargaining chip
The World
December 30, 2014
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny and his brother, Oleg, were both convicted of fraud on Tuesday. And while the opposition leader's three-and-a-half-year sentence was suspended, his brother, Oleg, was sent to jail. The decision sent activists, including Navalny himself, into the streets.
Technology
Quoting Spiderman didn't spare a Bitcoin evangelist from prison
The World
December 30, 2014
Uncle Ben told Spiderman that with "great power comes with great responsibility." But the line didn't prevent Bitcoin evangelist and exchange operator Charlie Shrem from prison time after he was convicted of aiding illegal transactions.
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Acquitted of genocide, a handful of Rwandans live a life in limbo
The World
December 31, 2014
As the international court trying cases related to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda finally completes its work, a handful of people acquitted remain in limbo in Tanzania.
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New trial ordered for three journalists in prison in Cairo
The World
January 01, 2015
For more than a year, journalists and rights advocates around the world have campaigned on behalf of three Al Jazeera journalists behind bars in Egypt. Today, a court in Cairo ordered a new trial for the three men. But they are not being released.
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Massachusetts isn't OK with the death penalty, but Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's jurors had to be
The World
January 05, 2015
Updated
The state of Massachusetts doesn't allow the death penalty, and most of the state's residents are against it. But for the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the jurors who decided his fate in a federal trial had to allow for that possibility.
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The Gambia is the worst dictatorship you've probably never heard of
The World
January 06, 2015
If you've never heard of The Gambia or its longtime dictator, Yahya Jammeh, you're far from alone. But Jammeh, who survived his eighth coup attempt last week, is the head of a "horrible, horrible dictatorship" that represses its people along North Korean lines.