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Suicides among older adults drove U.S. tally to historic high

Rising rates of suicide among older adults drove the number of such deaths to a historic high in the United States last year, even as suicide declined among youth, according to a report released Wednesday by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 49,000 people died by suicide in 2022 across

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Hundreds face sentencing in historic Italian mafia trial

Hundreds of alleged mobsters were being sentenced on Monday by an Italian court, the culmination of a historic, nearly three-year trial against Calabria’s notorious ‘Ndrangheta mafia. Prosecutors have asked for guilty verdicts against 322 accused mafia members and their white-collar collaborators, in what could mark the most significant blow to date against one of the

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Assad arrest warrant ‘historic’: French court’s indictment of foreign head-of-state ‘unprecedented’

French judicial authorities issued international arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar Assad, his brother and two army generals for alleged complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity. In what is being described as a ‘historic first’, FRANCE 24’s Nadia Massih is joined by Steve Kostas, Senior Legal Officer with the Open Society Justice Initiative’s litigation team.

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