| Toronto serial killer is behind bars, but a community still seeks peace Posted: 07 Feb 2019 01:34 PM PST ![Toronto serial killer is behind bars, but a community still seeks peace]( "Toronto serial killer is behind bars, but a community still seeks peace") The sentencing of Canada's confessed serial killer Bruce McArthur, expected on Friday in a case that, unsolved for most of a decade, terrorized Toronto's gay community, closes a tragic chapter. While relations with police are strained, the case has also deepened divides in the community itself over how to heal a relationship with the police that has long been fraught. As the men disappeared, McArthur continued to date in the community, even as he eluded police.
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| A storied New England school lets in a watchdog to curb sexual assault Posted: 07 Feb 2019 12:18 PM PST ![A storied New England school lets in a watchdog to curb sexual assault]( "A storied New England school lets in a watchdog to curb sexual assault") On Jan. 31, the eve of a short winter break at St. Paul's boarding school, five people sat in the Gothic Chapel of St. Peter and St. Paul to hear the white-robed teen choristers sing Compline, a service of evening prayers. A growing list of reports have detailed decades of hushed-up sexual abuse by faculty at elite prep schools, including several related to St. Paul's and one last week about the Key School in Annapolis, Md.
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| Measuring victory over Islamic State Posted: 07 Feb 2019 11:33 AM PST ![Measuring victory over Islamic State]( "Measuring victory over Islamic State") Sometime next week, President Trump hopes to declare a victory over Islamic State. The militant group's last stronghold is expected to fall in Syria, a tiny remnant of a caliphate that once spanned almost half of Syria and a third of Iraq. While the four-year US-led military campaign against the caliphate has succeeded, thousands of determined Islamic State (ISIS) fighters remain at large.
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| How international court may give Mali's women a second chance at justice Posted: 07 Feb 2019 10:49 AM PST ![How international court may give Mali's women a second chance at justice]( "How international court may give Mali's women a second chance at justice") At first, when thousands fled to Bamako in search of safety, women refused to speak about a crime they thought unspeakable: one that left many excluded, and blamed, by their own families. The former Islamic police chief is accused of overseeing forced marriages leading to the sexual enslavement of women, among other crimes.
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