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Since 2009, when Rio won the bid to host the Olympic Games, police have killed more than 2,600 people in the city, it said. According to the Instituto de Segurança Pública (ISP), in the city of Rio de Janeiro alone, 40 people were killed by police officers on duty in the month of May: an increase of 135% compared to 17 during the same period in 2015.

To the citizens of Turkey, we stood dumbfounded by what the entire nation showed to those around you and, most importantly, those 'within' you. Hats off to that sort of patriotism blazing high in you.

Seven Palestinian families comprised of 43 people, including 25 children, were displaced by the demolitions. They also included a 48-year-old father with Parkinson's disease, a 48-year-old man who is unable to walk, an 84-year-old woman and another woman who is seven months pregnant.

The victims of the attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka

He was shot dead in Karachi in a targeted killing claimed by a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban

One of Pakistan's best known Sufi musicians, Amjad Sabri, has been shot dead in the southern port city of Karachi, triggering an outpouring of grief over what police have described an "act of terror"

In the Iraq of the late 1970s, life was extremely good for middle-class families like mine. Dad worked as a sociologist in a research centre and Mum as a paediatrician. The oil boom meant that salaries were high and my parents used any excuse to throw lavish parties.

We would not like to give our solution to Nepal as it has to come from their communities and within the frame work of its constitution but unless Nepalese parties understand the whole issue of Dalits and their participation...

The trio, who had been working for various Spanish media around the time of their disappearance, were last seen in July 2015 in the northwestern city of Aleppo where they had been reporting on fighting.

' On Mother's Day, we celebrate those who are the first to welcome us into the world. Performing the most important work there is, mothers -- biological, foster, or adoptive -- are our first role models and earliest motivators. They balance enormous responsibilities and shape who we become as adults, their lessons guiding us throughout life.

The woman who holds the record for surviving the longest free-fall is Vesna Vulovi On January 26, 1972, the flight attendant was on board a Yugoslav Airlines DC-9 bound for Copenhagen when an explosion caused the plane to crash over Czechoslovakia. It definitely happened and she definitely survived.

Students community from the University of Chicago is in support with ongoing anti-caste students' movement of the University of Hyderabad. Read the statement of solidarity here