An eight-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by 16 men including her relatives over three years has died in hospital. The tragic youngster passed away in hospital in Chennai, the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, according to local media. However, the police are waiting for the…
Village elders in India about to force a man to marry his underage daughter to punish him for accidentally running over a calf were stopped after government officials intervened. The unnamed man had previously hit the calf in the country where cows are holy while riding his motorbike in a…
Story By: Michael Leidig, Sub Editor: Alex Cope, Agency: Asia Wire Report A schoolgirl who realised a little child had been kidnapped and then snatched her to safety has been asked to head a new anti-trafficking campaign in local schools. The girl, Carolyn Malsawmtluangi, had been playing volleyball with friends in the north-eastern…
Story By: Anastasia Smirnova, Sub-Editor: Alex Cope, Agency: Central European News A young Israeli woman jailed for seven-and-a-half years in Russia after nine grams of cannabis was found in her luggage has been pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin. In a statement from the Kremlin, they said that a presidential decree pardoning Naama Issachar…
Video Credit: AsiaWire/@adityatiwaree This is the moment a pit bull latches onto the leg of a teenage boy and refuses to let go of the bloody limb as dozens of villagers repeatedly whack it with sticks. The incident was filmed in the city of Jalandhar in the northern Indian state…
