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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

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A survivor of sexual assault meditates in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Thursday, March 14, 2019. “Most people will say, ‘What were you wearing or what were you doing? Why were you out so late?’" the young woman said. She found refuge in two trusted teachers, who sent her to “Sisters in Strength,” run by the nonprofit Girls for Gender Equity. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

R. Kelly case spotlights abuse of girls in the era of #MeToo

The arrest of R&B singer R. Kelly on charges of sexually abusing girls as young as 13 has focused the lens of the #MeToo movement on underage victims and girls of color
FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2017, file photo, Uighur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region. China says on Monday, March 18, 2019 it has arrested nearly 13,000 people it describes as terrorists in the traditionally Islamic region of Xinjiang since 2014 and broken up hundreds of "terrorist gangs." The figures were included in a government report on the situation in the restive northwestern territory that seeks to respond to growing criticism over the internment of an estimated 1 million members of the Uighur and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China says 13,000 Xinjiang 'terrorists' arrested since 2014

China has arrested nearly 13,000 people it describes as terrorists in Xinjiang since 2014, the government said in a report issued to counter criticism of internment camps and other oppressive security in the traditionally Islamic region
People clean the debris from a house in Sentani, Papua Province, Indonesia, Monday, March 18, 2019. Flash flood and mudslides triggered by days of torrential downpours tore through mountainside villages in Indonesia's easternmost province.(AP Photo/Djefri Pattiradjawane)

Flash floods, earthquake in Indonesia kill at least 80

Flash floods and mudslides triggered by days of torrential downpours tore through mountainside villages in Indonesia's easternmost province, killing at least 77 people and leaving dozens missing
French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, right, arrives for a press conference in Lyon, central France, Thursday, March 7, 2019. Barbarin offers his resignation to the Pope after a court on Thursday found him guilty of failing to report to authorities allegations of sexual abuse of minors by a priest. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

French cardinal convicted in sex abuse scandal to meet pope

France's senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, was meeting with the pope after having been convicted by a French court of failing to report a known pedophilia priest to police
La Scala theater general manager Alexander Pereira, right, and La Scala conductor Riccardo Chailly attend a press conference, in Milan, Italy, Monday, March 11, 2019. Italy's premier opera house, La Scala in Milan, is under fire over a proposal to grant a board seat to Saudi Arabia's culture minister with the promise of 15 million euros ($16.8 million) in new funding. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
La Scala board to decide on controversial Saudi funding
Directors of Italy's premier opera house, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, were meeting to decide whether to accept controversial funding from Saudi Arabia
A currency trader walks by the screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 18, 2019. Asian shares were mixed Monday as investors continued to watch for signs the U.S. and China could be making progress on critical negotiations aimed at resolving a trade war between the world's two biggest economies. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Global shares rise as investors watch US-China trade talks
Global shares gained as investors awaited signs of progress in negotiations on resolving a trade war between the two biggest economies
Abdul Iskandar, a sailor of Malaysian Royal Navy, cries after offering flowers outside the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, March 19, 2019. Christchurch was beginning to return to a semblance of normalcy Tuesday. Streets near the hospital that had been closed for four days reopened to traffic as relatives and friends of Friday's shooting victims continued to stream in from around the world. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Ardern vows to deny accused mosque gunman notoriety he seeks
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is imploring the public to speak the names of the 50 people who died in the Christchurch mosque shootings rather than the accused gunman's, to deny him the notoriety he seeks
Volunteers fill sandbags in preparation for flooding along the Missouri River in St Joseph, Mo., Monday, March 18, 2019. Hundreds of homes flooded in several Midwestern states after rivers breached at least a dozen levees following heavy rain and snowmelt in the region, authorities said Monday while warning that the flooding was expected to linger. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
Homes flood as Missouri River overtops, breaches levees
Hundreds of homes have flooded in several Midwestern states after rivers breached at least a dozen levees following heavy rain and snowmelt
This Saturday, March 16, 2019 booking photo provided by the Dale County Sheriff's Office, shows Coley McCraney. Al.com reported McCraney, of Dothan, was arrested Saturday and charged with rape and capital murder in the 1999 deaths of 17-year-olds Tracie Hawlett and J.B. Beasley. Ozark police and Dale County sheriff's officials are scheduled to hold a press conference about the case on Monday, March 18. Authorities in Alabama said a DNA match found through a genealogy website led to to the arrest. (Dale County Sheriff's Office via AP)
High profile arrest led Alabama police to genealogy testing
A truck-driving preacher arrested for killing two Alabama teenage girls nearly 20 years ago was found by the same genealogy techniques used to apprehend the suspected "Golden State Killer" last year
Aya Al-Umari wears the T-shirt that her brother, Hussein Al-Umari, 35, teased her about the last time she saw him, before he was killed on March 15 in the attack at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, March 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Juliet Williams)
Brother's teasing before NZ mosque shooting proved prophetic
Hussein al-Umari delighting in teasing his sister, who now wonders if his remarks about the words written on her shirt, 'See You Bye,' were prophetic and somehow he knew he would not see her again
This Aug. 3, 2017 photo provided by Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Curtis Flowers, who's murder case has gone to trial six times. Supreme Court justices are again considering how to keep prosecutors from removing African-Americans from criminal juries for racially biased reasons, this time in a case involving a Mississippi death row inmate who has been tried six times for murder. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP)
High court again eyes reasons for removing black jurors
Supreme Court justices are again considering how to keep prosecutors from removing African-Americans from criminal juries for racially biased reasons
In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, photo, three mannequins are displayed with clothing that combines traditional designs for men with those for women for the "Gender Bending Fashion" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The new exhibit at the museum explores how blurring gender lines are redefining the fashion industry. The show opens to the public on Thursday, March 21, and examines moments in history when clothing transcended and muddled our understanding of gender. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
'Both sides of the binary:' Exhibit explores gender, fashion
A colorful new exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts explores how blurring gender lines are redefining the fashion industry
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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