Tag: fear
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China launches survey to understand ‘fear of having children’
China’s National Health Commission (NHC) is surveying 30,000 people to understand factors influencing their attitudes towards childbearing and the “fear surrounding having children”, as authorities struggle to boost a flagging birthrate. The survey will include people from 150 counties in China and 1,500 different communities, the state-backed Global Times said late on Thursday, citing the…
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Richard Allen used power and fear to kill teen victims, prosecutors say
Richard Allen was armed with a gun when he came across teenage friends Abigail “Abby” Williams and Liberty “Libby” German near a hiking trail in Delphi, Indiana, in February 2017, then used “power and the fear” to force them “down the hill” before slitting their throats, prosecutors said in an opening statement Friday in his…
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Migrants selling fruit and candy in New York’s subway are plagued by fear and uncertainty
They’ve become a part of the fabric of New York City life, slipping in and out of subway cars and calling out to riders as they try to sell their wares, typically an assortment of candy bars and gum. On train platforms, they sell various fruits like mango and watermelon, cut up and divided into…
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Asheville musicians rally after Helene but fear losing an audience
Last Tuesday, Kenny Clark packed his three dogs and 20 guitars into the back of his car and headed west to Nashville, Tennessee, where he planned to raffle off the instruments for hurricane relief. “We had these couple days of overwhelming sadness and anxiety and confusion and wanting to help and not knowing what we…
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Lebanese fear a return to the 2006 war with Israel, or worse — a situation like Gaza
“This is already a war.” For many in Lebanon, warnings from the United States that further escalation between Israel and Hezbollah could lead to all-out conflict have fallen flat. To Elias Faouz, it feels like that moment has already passed. “It has been going on for a year now,” said Faouz, 44, an architect in…
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House to take up new funding bill as some Republicans fear a ‘galactically stupid’ shutdown
WASHINGTON — The House plans to vote this week on a three-month stopgap funding bill as the clock ticks down and Donald Trump pressures Republicans to shut down the government without policy concessions they have no realistic chance of achieving. Defying Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., struck a deal with the White House and top…