Incidents Grew in Severity, Report Says
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Forty-four separate incidents are graphically recounted in the new Army report on abuse committed by U.S. soldiers against Iraqis in their custody at the Abu Ghraib prison.
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The use of class a drug crystal meth in the UK is increasing, a new report has warned.
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The number of complaints filed with the Los Angeles Police Department alleging misconduct by officers and civilian workers increased last year, a study found.
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Many mental health wards in Britain may do more harm than good and on some, patients are subjected to violence, verbal abuse and sexual harassment, according to special reports in the Lancet on Friday.
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The number of people driven from their homes by violence, natural disasters and poverty increased last year for the first time since 2002 and is almost certain to rise further due to deepening conflicts across the world, the U.N. refugee chief said.
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Violence is increasing in camps for displaced people in Darfur, where nearly a quarter million people have been displaced so far this year, a U.N. report said on Monday.
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Government statisticians reported a sharp rise in death rates for adults of virtually all ages and both sexes from 1997 to 2004.
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The death rate from injury in the United States is rising this decade after declining since the late 1970s, spurred by increases in accidental poisonings and suicides, health officials said on Thursday.
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REPORT FINDINGS: The number of people affected by the conflict in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region has grown to 2 million, and there are strong indications of war crimes &quot;on a large and systematic scale.
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Key measures of the level of insurgent violence against American forces in Iraq, numbers of dead, wounded and insurgent attacks, show the situation has gotten worse since the summer.
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The investigation widened as four additional cases were reported in Pennsylvania and Connecticut as well as two more in New Jersey.
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The department said this week that, from May through September, there were 31 confirmed cases reported in the state, compared to an average of nine cases in the previous three years for the same months.
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Conditions in Afghanistan have deteriorated markedly since 2005, with rising violence, government corruption and misguided U.S. efforts contributing to growing unease  among the population, according to a report released yesterday based in part on 1,000 interviews with ordinary Afghans.
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A strain of a common bug with properties linked to increased virulence has become predominant in several US hospitals, prompting researchers to suggest it may be responsible for the sharp increase in cases and severity of disease in parts of the United
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A report from the W.H.O. warns that new infectious diseases are emerging at an âunprecedented rate.â
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More people died in urban areas when ground-level ozone was higher during the previous week, researchers at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Johns Hopkins report in the November 17 Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Health and safety officials are urged to act after a report finds one in three industry deaths occur on building sites.