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Hundreds of British police officers and other employees of the police force have used their power to sexually abuse vulnerable people, a new report shows, the latest in a string of institutional abuse accusations in the country. The royal Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), which independently assesses policing in the UK, revealed the extent of the issue in its latest report on Thursday. The report said the police abuse was an egregious breach of officers’ roles as guardians and protectors. The HMIC’s initial findings showed that at least 436 crime victims had been subjected to sexual abuse by officers. The organization warned that the number could be much higher than that. Of the total of 334 police personnel involved in the abuse cases, 306 were officers; 20 were Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and eight belonged to other ranks of the force. Nearly 40 percent of the charges were brought by victims of domestic violence, which is a prevalent issue a

The Syrian army troops and their allied forces are now in control of about 85 percent of militant-held eastern part of Aleppo as they press ahead with an all-out offensive to fully dislodge foreign-backed terrorists from the northwestern city. On Thursday, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported heavy clashes between government troops and militants in the occupied areas of eastern Aleppo, including Bustan al-Qasr, Saif al-Dawla, Zibdiya, Sukkari and Kallaseh. Intense bombardment has been reported on militant positions in the embattled city while Syrian armed forces are also conducting clean-up operations in the liberated areas. The intensity of the Syrian army’s offensive has cornered the militants in a shrinking enclave in Aleppo’s southeast on the defensive, forcing them to demand five-day ceasefire, in a call viewed as an attempt to rebuild their ranks. According to the Observatory, some 80,000 civilians have fled from the milit

Life expectancy in the United States has declined for the first time in more than two decades, according to a new report, a development linked to a range of worsening health problems in the country. US death rate increased 1.2 percent last year, the first time it has increased since 1993 and that led to a 0.1 percent drop in life expectancy, according to a report released Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics. American males could expect to live 76.3 years at birth last year, down from 76.5 in 2014. Females could expect to live to 81.2 years, down from 81.3 the previous year, the report said. Rising fatalities from heart disease and stroke, cancer, diabetes, drug overdoses, accidents and other conditions caused the lower life expectancy. More than 2.7 million people died last year, about 45 percent of them from heart disease or cancer. “ I think we should be very concerned, ” said Anne Case, a Princeton University economist who u

‘ We were living in security and peace. These areas are being targeted, they want to force us to leave. Every Syrian is being targeted,’ one Syrian religious leader told a delegation of reporters who visited Aleppo earlier this month. by Eva Bartlett Part 6 - Displaced by terrorists For around four years, simple shelters at the Hafez al-Assad Mosque have housed around 1,000 people, all Sunni families displaced from areas occupied by militants. Most of those with whom I spoke listed similar reasons for leaving their homes and described being in fear for their lives because of the terrorist presence. “ They came and destroyed houses and killed civilians before they attacked the state. The army is protecting us, it’s the gangs [that] are the ones destroying the country, ” one man told me. He said his two brothers in terrorist-controlled areas in eastern Aleppo are “ not allowed to leave. ” “ They’ve tried many times but they are prevented. If the armed

Twenty-one years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, a NATO exercise, Able Archer 83, came terrifyingly close to precipitating an accidental nuclear war. National Security Archive When “Blue’s” limited attack failed to stop “Orange” forces, NATO commanders proposed “follow on use of nuclear weapons” – essentially a carte blanche escalation – which they duly executed on the morning of November 11. Only then, with almost nothing left to destroy, did Able Archer 83, the NATO war game designed to practice the release of nuclear weapons during wartime conditions, come to an end. While the 1983 nuclear conflagration was fictional, the top military and political leaders involved were entirely real, and the war game they enacted was based wholly on global strategic realities. Now available to purchase, Able Archer 83 , by the National Security Archive’s Nate Jones, tells the story of this dangerous but largely unknown nuclear exercise, the generals who ran it,