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    “I’m here about your husband, Jason. He was arrested last night, charged with sexual assault.”

    I felt my body go numb. The officer continued. “I understand your husband called the police himself.”

    He handed me a slip of paper with the phone number of the police station and said I should call right away. Then, quietly, he said, “I think you’d better expect that it was full rape.”

    For better, for worse: my husband, the rapist  - Shannon Moroney

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El Salvador gangs celebrate a day without murders
Two of the largest rival gangs in El Salvador have recently called a truce, leading to its first murder-free day for years. Much of the violence is blamed on Mexican drug cartels that use the country as a transit point
A Mara 18 gang member attends a press conference of his leaders at a prison in Quezaltepeque. Imprisoned gang leaders announced in a press conference on Wednesday that they have declared Salvadorian schools as peace zones Photograph: Luis Romero/AP

    El Salvador gangs celebrate a day without murders

    Two of the largest rival gangs in El Salvador have recently called a truce, leading to its first murder-free day for years. Much of the violence is blamed on Mexican drug cartels that use the country as a transit point

    A Mara 18 gang member attends a press conference of his leaders at a prison in Quezaltepeque. Imprisoned gang leaders announced in a press conference on Wednesday that they have declared Salvadorian schools as peace zones Photograph: Luis Romero/AP

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Sierra Leone after Charles Taylor - A decade after Sierra Leone’s conflict, the west African nation is peaceful, but among the world’s poorest. The UN war crimes court trying Charles Taylor for atrocities in Sierra Leone will deliver its verdict on Thursday

Kadidiatu Swaray, 18, and her friend Mabinty Bangura, 15, arrive for class at the Every Nation Academy in Makeni Photograph: Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters

    Sierra Leone after Charles Taylor - A decade after Sierra Leone’s conflict, the west African nation is peaceful, but among the world’s poorest. The UN war crimes court trying Charles Taylor for atrocities in Sierra Leone will deliver its verdict on Thursday

    Kadidiatu Swaray, 18, and her friend Mabinty Bangura, 15, arrive for class at the Every Nation Academy in Makeni Photograph: Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters

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