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"It's Haunting Now": Ex-Girlfriend Says Ohio Shooter Had Hallucinations
During his senior year of high school, Connor Betts seemed to always have caffeine pills in one hand and an energy drink in another. He was unable to sleep, he told his then-girlfriend Lyndsi Doll, because of dark, animal-like shadows that tormented him at night.
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'All Night Of Slam, Bang, Boom,' Then A Scramble To Assess The Damage
The wind was so intense here that Cathy Dever thought it was a tornado - one that never seemed to end.
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Hurricane Harvey Hits Texas, Bringing Heavy Rain, Storm Surge
Residents of the Gulf Coast hunkered down late Friday amid dire warnings of a major natural disaster as Hurricane Harvey roared ashore as a Category 4 storm with 130 mph winds for a few hours before weakening as it slowly moved inland.
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Hurricane Harvey Grows Stronger As Texas Braces For Historic Storm To Make Landfall Friday Evening
Hurricane Harvey intensified Friday morning and is on track to be the strongest hurricane to strike the United States in 12 years. The storm is expected to make landfall late Friday night or Saturday morning near this South Texas city and then stall, delivering forecasters say could be "catastrophic flooding."
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Little-Known Pakistani Tribe That Loves Wine And Whiskey Fears Its Muslim Neighbors
Hidden up in the mountains near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, the Kalash tribe loves homemade wine and whiskey, dances for days at colorful festivals, and practices a religion that holds that God has spirits and messengers who speak through nature.
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Orlando Shooter's Father Says He's Saddened By Massacre, Calls Him 'A Good Son'
The father of the gunman in the Orlando nightclub shooting said early Tuesday his son shouldn't have carried out the massacre because "God himself will punish those involved in homosexuality."
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In Kabul, A Young Man Is Skinned Alive
In a remote area of Afghanistan, where thousands of years of hardscrabble tribal culture increasingly mixes with a resurgent Taliban militancy, this is how Fazl Ahmad allegedly died.
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Pakistani Husbands Can 'Lightly Beat' Their Wives, Islamic Council Says
When Pakistan's most populated province approved a law this year that gives women protection - and a potential escape - from abusive husbands, the country's powerful Council of Islamic Ideology strongly opposed the move.
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U.S. Takes War Back To Pakistan With Airstrike Aimed At Taliban Leader
The U.S. drone strike thought to have killed Taliban chief Akhtar Mohammad Mansour represents another escalation in U.S. involvement in the war in Afghanistan by trying to cripple an insurgent group that has for years found refuge on Pakistani soil.
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Search For Truth In Rape Case Tests Afghan Justice System
Gul Momina says she was only 15 when a man and his wife lured her from her home here in Afghanistan's capital. They gave her a soda, she recalls. Then she blacked out.
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Is Defying The Clerics - Very Carefully
During a speech to international business leaders here in late November, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif shocked the country's powerful religious community by calling for a new, more "liberal" Pakistan.
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If A Husband Beats His Wife In Pakistan, Can She Flee? Maybe Not.
A law unanimously passed last week in Pakistan's most populated province establishes some pretty basic protections for women.
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Stretched By Its Fight Against Taliban, Afghan Army Raises Recruitment Age
The Afghan army, struggling to defeat a resilient Taliban, has begun enlisting men as old as 40 to replenish a force thinned by casualties, defections and attrition.
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'Read It Correctly!' Via Skype, Islamic Teaching Flows Out Of Pakistan
Mohammad Hassan secluded himself in a religious seminary in Pakistan's largest city for 11 years until he memorized the more than 6,000 verses that make up the Quran, Islam's holy book.
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A Gay Kiss In China Led To This In Pakistan
As in many Islamic countries, it's common to see young men walking down the streets here in Pakistan holding hands or warmly greeting each other with a hug. But on Friday, the local publisher of the International New York Times decided a photograph of a man in China giving his boyfriend a kiss on the cheek was too graphic for Pakistani readers.
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"It's Haunting Now": Ex-Girlfriend Says Ohio Shooter Had Hallucinations
During his senior year of high school, Connor Betts seemed to always have caffeine pills in one hand and an energy drink in another. He was unable to sleep, he told his then-girlfriend Lyndsi Doll, because of dark, animal-like shadows that tormented him at night.
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'All Night Of Slam, Bang, Boom,' Then A Scramble To Assess The Damage
The wind was so intense here that Cathy Dever thought it was a tornado - one that never seemed to end.
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Hurricane Harvey Hits Texas, Bringing Heavy Rain, Storm Surge
Residents of the Gulf Coast hunkered down late Friday amid dire warnings of a major natural disaster as Hurricane Harvey roared ashore as a Category 4 storm with 130 mph winds for a few hours before weakening as it slowly moved inland.
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Hurricane Harvey Grows Stronger As Texas Braces For Historic Storm To Make Landfall Friday Evening
Hurricane Harvey intensified Friday morning and is on track to be the strongest hurricane to strike the United States in 12 years. The storm is expected to make landfall late Friday night or Saturday morning near this South Texas city and then stall, delivering forecasters say could be "catastrophic flooding."
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Little-Known Pakistani Tribe That Loves Wine And Whiskey Fears Its Muslim Neighbors
Hidden up in the mountains near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, the Kalash tribe loves homemade wine and whiskey, dances for days at colorful festivals, and practices a religion that holds that God has spirits and messengers who speak through nature.
-
Orlando Shooter's Father Says He's Saddened By Massacre, Calls Him 'A Good Son'
The father of the gunman in the Orlando nightclub shooting said early Tuesday his son shouldn't have carried out the massacre because "God himself will punish those involved in homosexuality."
-
In Kabul, A Young Man Is Skinned Alive
In a remote area of Afghanistan, where thousands of years of hardscrabble tribal culture increasingly mixes with a resurgent Taliban militancy, this is how Fazl Ahmad allegedly died.
-
Pakistani Husbands Can 'Lightly Beat' Their Wives, Islamic Council Says
When Pakistan's most populated province approved a law this year that gives women protection - and a potential escape - from abusive husbands, the country's powerful Council of Islamic Ideology strongly opposed the move.
-
U.S. Takes War Back To Pakistan With Airstrike Aimed At Taliban Leader
The U.S. drone strike thought to have killed Taliban chief Akhtar Mohammad Mansour represents another escalation in U.S. involvement in the war in Afghanistan by trying to cripple an insurgent group that has for years found refuge on Pakistani soil.
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Search For Truth In Rape Case Tests Afghan Justice System
Gul Momina says she was only 15 when a man and his wife lured her from her home here in Afghanistan's capital. They gave her a soda, she recalls. Then she blacked out.
-
Pakistan's Prime Minister Is Defying The Clerics - Very Carefully
During a speech to international business leaders here in late November, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif shocked the country's powerful religious community by calling for a new, more "liberal" Pakistan.
-
If A Husband Beats His Wife In Pakistan, Can She Flee? Maybe Not.
A law unanimously passed last week in Pakistan's most populated province establishes some pretty basic protections for women.
-
Stretched By Its Fight Against Taliban, Afghan Army Raises Recruitment Age
The Afghan army, struggling to defeat a resilient Taliban, has begun enlisting men as old as 40 to replenish a force thinned by casualties, defections and attrition.
-
'Read It Correctly!' Via Skype, Islamic Teaching Flows Out Of Pakistan
Mohammad Hassan secluded himself in a religious seminary in Pakistan's largest city for 11 years until he memorized the more than 6,000 verses that make up the Quran, Islam's holy book.
-
A Gay Kiss In China Led To This In Pakistan
As in many Islamic countries, it's common to see young men walking down the streets here in Pakistan holding hands or warmly greeting each other with a hug. But on Friday, the local publisher of the International New York Times decided a photograph of a man in China giving his boyfriend a kiss on the cheek was too graphic for Pakistani readers.
