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After perhaps the most high-profile case of spousal murder in the country's history, lawmakers insist they are working to strengthen the laws governing violence against women. But parallel efforts to muzzle women's groups raise the question of whether the status quo will see any change.
Two Uzbek regional government officials are facing a retrial and possibly harsher sentences for the sexual abuse of children under their care. The case has been an embarrassment for the government, which disbanded Soviet-era orphanages in favor of placing children in foster and adoptive families.
we started to hear the explosions, gun fires, and the news. the third or second row of panic happened again. people started to just move out. i don t think there is a safe place, to stay or to go, we do not know. people as you said before, people are getting guns, and to protect the city. not just give, but every city in ukraine. when we are asking everyone to help us, we are saying to the world, please help us. don t be silent. this is our message, you know? we do not want to fight. we do not want war. we never wanted a war. we are a good unhappy country, so. your president made an appeal, essentially gave a warning to residents of kyiv tonight saying it will get bad.