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Nigeria: Ogoni widows sue Shell over military crackdown
2017-06-29 14:23:33| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The women accuse the oil giant of complicity in a crackdown by Nigeria's then military rulers.
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"We were waiting for our deaths" - Kenyan widows saved by tribal elders
2016-06-23 00:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: "We were waiting for our deaths" - Kenyan widows saved by tribal elders Bangladesh declares lightning strikes a disaster as deaths surge From cleaning corpses to sex with strangers, widow rituals fuel disease in Africa Centuries-old African soil technique could combat climate change - scientists Branded witches and cursed by spirits, Kenyan widows ousted from land Kenyan law grants widows the right to live on their late husbands' property until they die, but poor women are often evicted...
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FedEx's Attempt to Throw Out Lawsuit Over Widow's Pension Benefits Denied
2016-01-05 01:09:31| Air Courier - Topix.net
Memphis-based FedEx is being sued by a widow of a long-time employee, after she was denied pension benefits because the two were in a same-sex marriage, and on Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton denied the company's attempt to have that lawsuit thrown out. California woman Stacey Schuett, the widow of 26-year FedEx employee Lesly Taboada-Hall, filed the lawsuit against the company last January after it refused to provide her with federally required spousal pension benefits.
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Widows: Railroad knew of defect before veterans killed
2015-11-29 17:21:41| Railroads - Topix.net
Intensive care nurse Angie Boivin had just tended to a woman whose leg was severed near the hip when she saw her husband Larry lying nearby under an American flag blanket. She says that she was with him when he took his last breath.
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Widows: Railroad knew of defect before veterans killed
2015-11-26 17:11:27| Railroads - Topix.net
Intensive care nurse Angie Boivin had just tended to a woman whose leg was severed near the hip when she saw her husband Larry lying nearby under an American flag blanket. She says that she was with him when he took his last breath.
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