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  Slaves were 'involuntary immigrants', label fits anyone who comes from outside: US Secy

  World | March 07, 2017 12:56 IST

  In a potentially controversial statement, US Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Monday said that slaves were 'involuntary immigrants' and that the label fits anyone who comes into a country from the outside.

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  Sold for Rs 70,000, kept as a slave, fate reunites Assamese woman with lost son

  India | December 07, 2016 12:12 IST

  An Assamese woman, trafficked and sold as a bonded labourer in Rajasthan, could have lived the rest of her life as a slave without ever seeing her family or knowing whether her toddler son, abandoned by the traffickers, was dead or alive.

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  Sexual terror: ISIS 'fatwa' outlines when and how militants can rape female prisoners

  World | December 29, 2015 15:40 IST

  Baghdad: The ISIS documents now in possession of US Special Operations Forces have laid bare the brutal treatment the terror outfit meted out to its female prisoners, outlining its rules on rape and enslavement.The documents