How attacks on maternity hospitals fueled a birth-rate crisis in Ukraine
The Guardian has visited three frontline hospitals to hear from women who say they have been left fearful of childbirth after more than 80 attacks on maternity units since Russia’s full-scale invasion
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia notified by ICE that he may be deported to Uganda
Abrego, wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, now faces removal to Uganda just a day after being freed from a Tennessee jail.
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How many Americans now identify as transgender? Many are age 13-17.
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| August 23, 1933 Mahatma Gandhi, weighing only 90 pounds, was released unconditionally from Sassoon Hospital in Poona because, after 5 days of his latest “fast unto death,” the doctors feared that his body could no longer stand the strain of fasting. He had been taken to the hospital from Yeravda jail, which he had described as his “permanent address,” when he started his fast. He was protesting official refusal to allow him to continue his work with the Untouchables (he had called them harijan, or “children of God”) while in prison.  Gandhi leaving hospital, 1933 He had deliberately courted arrest, rejecting an order permitting him to reside only within the limits of Poona, and had been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. Gandhi and his fasts |
| August 23, 1945 In a letter to his friend Anne Marie Petersen shortly before the end of British colonial rule in India, Mahatma Gandhi wrote, “When there is independence, why should you fear the majority? If you have God with you and the majority have not, should you still fear? And if both have God between them who should fear whom? Is there then any question of majority and minority? Let us pray. Love. Bapu” |
| August 23, 1989 Over one million joined hands across the three Baltic republics (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) in a 400-mile-long chain of resistance against control by the U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). It was the 60th anniversary of the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact after the foreign ministers of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany who had negotiated it. Generally called the Hitler-Stalin Pact, it secretly agreed to Soviet control of Latvia and Estonia, and German influence over Poland and Lithuania. Germany, again secretly, later ceded control over Lithuania to the Soviets for 7.5 million dollars in gold ($115 in 2008 dollars).  Baltic hands The Baltic Way (with pictures of the action) |
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, at the center a high-profile immigration fight, released from jail
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is freed from Tennessee jail so he can rejoin family in Maryland to await trial
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Trump Administration Sends ‘Chilling Message’ To Patients And Medical Providers
The efforts to cull sensitive medical data are unprecedented by the federal government and mirror actions taken by Republican officials in Texas and Tennessee.
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