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"More morphine!" screamed Malak's mother, her 20-year-old daughter hospitalized after a marital fight, leaving her badly burned — the latest victim of domestic abuse aggravated by Iraq's isolation. Since mid-March, the nationwide lockdown is intended to keep coronavirus cases down in the country, but has led to a spike in another sad statistic: domestic violence. Iraq's community police chief, Brigadier General Ghalib Atiyah, told AFP that his domestic violence cases have risen by an average of 30% since the curfew came into effect — with some places seeing as much as a 50% spike. The United Nations in Iraq (UNAMI) announced in a single week: "A woman's rape with special needs, spousal assault, immolation and self-immolation, as well as self-inflicted injuries caused by spousal violence, sexual exploitation of children, and suicide ... A 58-year-old doctor killed his wife in Wasit's southern province after refusing to let him sell land she o

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Saudi Arabia won't enforce the death penalty on citizens who committed crimes while still minors, says the country's Human Rights Committee. The statement, citing King Salman's royal decree, comes two days after the country said it 'd ban flying. The UN Agreement on the Rights of the Child, signed by Riyadh, states that capital punishment should not be used for minors' offenses. Activists say Saudi Arabia has one of the world's worst records on human rights. They claim freedom of speech is seriously curtailed, and government opponents are subject to arbitrary arrest. In 2019, according to Amnesty International, a staggering 184 people were executed in the country. At least one case involved a man convicted of a crime when he was a minor, the rights group said. Saudi Arabia's record of 2019' reform and repression go hand in hand in Saudi Arabia Awwad Alawwad, president of the state-backed committee, said a royal decree had replaced execu

Scientists have learned about coronavirus since the 1960s. Yet it has scarcely achieved broader attention in the past half-century. One reason was in 2003, when there was an outbreak of serious acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in mainland China and Hong Kong. That was the 2012 outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Republic of Korea, among others. In both cases, coronaviruses were science new. Happily, both outbreaks were contained by incorporating human interference and still unexplained natural circumstances. Coronaviruses became a household name worldwide in 2020. Most people have learned of extreme acute respiratory coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) or COVID-19. Yet some may not know SARS-CoV-2 belongs to a virus family. And the family grows, we're afraid. Scientists learn much about coronaviruses. Yet we don't know. So there's a possibility scientists neglected to det