Indian Reservation Reeling in Wave of Youth Suicides and Attempts
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American Indian and Alaska Native youth 15 to 24 years old are committing suicide at a rate more than three times the national average for their age group.
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AHMEDABAD, India  - Five years after their loved ones were brutally killed and they were forced to flee, thousands of Muslim victims of one of India's worst religious riots have pleaded for help to return home.
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Long-awaited apology for 'profound suffering, grief and loss' inflicted on Aboriginal population
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After Vera Quiroga, an American Indian elder, was turned away from a clinic she helped found in Santa Barbara, she has been forced to drive to a far-off reservation to get her teeth cleaned.
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The suicide rate among preteen and young teen girls spiked 76 percent, a disturbing sign that federal health officials say they can't fully explain.
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Students at a Northern Ireland high school were receiving counseling Tuesday after three 15-year-old classmates hanged themselves over the past month.
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Children displaced, often orphaned, by tsunami, earthquakes and other disasters made last year a particularly sordid one for their exploitation as cheap labor or sexual victims, the government said Wednesday.
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In the four hours it took Alaska State Troopers to arrive at the Eskimo village of Nunam Iqua, a man choked and raped his 13-year-old stepdaughter in front of three younger children. He had already beaten his wife with a shotgun and pistol-whipped a friend after an evening drinking home brew.
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ALICE SPRINGS, Australia  - Five times a week the "Night Patrol" winds through the darkness of the 18 squalid aboriginal camps in Alice Springs trying to prevent the alcohol-fuelled violence that is destroying lives.
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Authorities grew more concerned Saturday about two young brothers missing for three days from the Red Lake Indian Reservation after temperatures dipped below freezing overnight.
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On Sept. 22, a 34-year-old mother of two posted an Internet notice looking for companions for a group suicide. On Oct. 5, the police found her and three other women barely
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A 7-year-old boy hanged himself at his home in southern New Jersey, a prosecutor said on Friday in the latest sign of an increase in suicides by young people and adolescents.
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Screaming with fear, paralyzed children at a shelter for the physically disabled and mentally ill lay helpless in their beds as water surged into their dormitories during the tsunami that ravaged coastal areas of southern Asia.
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India&#39;s insurgency-racked northeast was reeling yesterday from one of its deadliest waves of violence in years, as police reported more killings overnight that brought the death toll to 53 with 141 injured.
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At least 11 farmers have committed suicide in the past two days in a western Indian state after failing to repay bank loans because of crop failures, an activist group said Thursday.
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For years, medical experts and desperate parents with teens suffering from depression have argued over the risks of prescribing antidepressants to minors, 520,000 of whom attempt suicide each year.
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NAGAPATTINAM, India  - It took just a few seconds  for Shiva Shankari, like her village, to lose her future.