Sexual violence in conflict ‘terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities’

Sexual violence has become a brutal tactic of warfare and repression that “terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities,” the UN chief said on Friday. In his message for the International Day for…

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World’s ‘Earliest Domestication’ of Fruit Trees Reveals ‘Complex Society’ in the Jordan Valley

Israeli researchers find evidence of fig and olive trees that were domesticated 7,000 years ago, bearing far-reaching social and economic implications for the Chalcolithic Age people of Tel Zaf Jun.…

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