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Italy school students 'strike' over work experience

Thousands of Italian school students are protesting nationwide over work placements which they say contribute little to their future job prospects.

The students are calling it a "strike" in 70 cities. Student unions organised the protest via social media.

Italy's Student Network says "no more exploitation through free labour".

It says 95% of schools – about 900,000 children – participate in work experience schemes. Italy has the EU's third-highest jobless rate, at 11.2%.

There was some vandalism by protesters in Milan, targeting what they saw as symbols of capitalist exploitation: the chamber of commerce building, a McDonald's restaurant and a Zara clothing store.

The student unions claimed 200,000 youths protested across Italy – however, there was no independent estimate of the total.

The students want the government to fulfil its promise to draft a statute defining the status of people doing work experience and a code of ethics for companies using them.

The strike – with rallies in Rome, Naples, Milan, Salerno and other cities – was also in protest against alleged underfunding of state schools.

"We want work placements that provide real alternative training and quality for all," said Student Network national co-ordinator Giammarco Manfreda.

Italy "continues to lack rules defining who can or cannot offer work experience", he added.

"We're tired of being humiliated by our companies, whose work experience does not amount to training at all."

An "anti-exploitation" statement from the student unions said "we are students, not merchandise in the hands of businesses" and "we are sick of being sent to wait on tables".

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Italian Education Minister Valeria Fedeli defended the centre-left government's education policy. She said internships gave students "complementary skills that enable them to face the future with more knowledge".

But she pledged to address the students' complaints and work to raise the quality of internships, Ansa news agency reported.

Italian media reported that paint was daubed on some buildings in Milan and a McDonald's restaurant was pelted with eggs and tomatoes.

Youths also smashed a window at the Milan offices of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), then hurled paint and smoke bombs into it.

Internships for students at some global businesses, including McDonald's and Zara, were launched by the PD government of former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in July 2015.

Youths in the last three years of school have been getting the work experience, branded as "exploitation" by the protesters on Friday.

In a statement (in Italian), McDonald's said its outlets across Italy were taking "up to 10,000 students each year", with the aim of helping young people develop skills required in their future employment.

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Harvey Weinstein: US actress Rose McGowan makes rape allegation

The scandal deluging Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has deepened after US actress Rose McGowan publicly accused him of raping her.

In a series of tweets, McGowan also accused Amazon Studio chief Roy Price of having ignored her when she made the allegation earlier.

Amazon has put Price – himself accused on Thursday of sexually harassing a female producer – on leave of absence.

Weinstein denies any sexual assaults. There was no comment from Price.

Police forces in the US and UK police have launched investigations into sexual assault allegations against Weinstein:

• The New York Police Department is looking into an allegation dating from 2004 and reviewing whether there are any additional complaints

• London's Met Police has received an allegation of sexual assault in the London area in the 1980s

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Addressing Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos on Twitter, McGowan – who has appeared in Scream, The Black Dahlia and TV series Charmed – criticised the company for doing business with Weinstein.

"I told the head of your studio that HW raped me," she wrote. "Over & over I said it. He said it hadn't been proven. I said I was the proof."

Price was separately accused by Isa Hackett, a producer on one of Amazon's shows, of having lewdly propositioned her in a taxi and at a corporate dinner in 2015, the Hollywood Reporter writes.

Hackett reported the incident to Amazon executives immediately, she was quoted as saying, and an outside investigator was brought in.

She was not told the outcome of the investigation but did not see Price again at any events involving her shows, she added.

In a statement, Amazon said: "Roy Price is on leave of absence effective immediately. We are reviewing our options for the projects we have with The Weinstein Co."

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Three women earlier accused Weinstein of rape in an investigative article in The New Yorker magazine.

They are Italian actress and director Asia Argento, former aspiring actress Lucia Evans and a third woman who was anonymous.

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The same article says 10 other women told the author that Weinstein had either sexually harassed or assaulted them between the 1990s and 2015.

The New York Times broke the story on 5 October when it detailed decades of allegations of sexual harassment against Weinstein.

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Weinstein has insisted through a spokeswoman that any sexual contacts he had were consensual.

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone has said he believes that Weinstein should not be judged prematurely.

"If he broke the law it will come out," he told reporters on a visit to South Korea for a film festival. "I believe that a man shouldn't be condemned by a vigilante system."

In a subsequent social media post, however, Stone expressed a wish to "recuse" himself from a TV series about Guantanamo Bay "as long as The Weinstein Company is involved".

The director wrote on Facebook that he was "appalled" by the allegations made against Harvey Weinstein and "commend[ed] the courage of the women who've stepped forward".

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In another development, Twitter briefly suspended McGowan for violating its terms and policies after she included a personal phone number in tweets about sexual abuse allegations.

Some prominent US figures, notably from the entertainment world, said they would boycott the platform on Friday in protest, using the hashtag #WomenBoycottTwitter.

Other developments include:

• Speaking to the BBC on Friday, Hillary Clinton said she was "shocked and appalled" by the allegations, adding: "The stories that have come out are heartbreaking." Weinstein has been a prominent supporter and funder of the Democratic party.
• Quentin Tarantino said he is "stunned and heartbroken" about the claims concerning Weinstein, whom he described as a "friend for 25 years". In a statement posted by the actress Amber Tamblyn, the Pulp Fiction director said he needed "a few more days to process [his] pain, emotions, anger and memory" before commenting further.
• Sienna Miller said she was "fortunate to never have been subjected to sexual harassment or advances by Harvey Weinstein". "But I stand in absolute solidarity with those who were," the British actress wrote on Instagram.
• Penelope Cruz said she felt "extremely sad and shocked" by the reports about Weinstein's alleged conduct. The Spanish star said she had "never witnessed such behaviour personally" but supported those who had come forward and "shown great bravery by talking".
• The Sun reports that Harvey Weinstein was the "Hollywood star" Myleene Klass previously claimed made a sexual proposition to her in 2010. The former Hear'Say singer had claimed she was asked to sign "some kind of sex contract" by one of the individual's employees.
• A British actress has accused Harvey Weinstein of pinning her down and masturbating in front of her in a London hotel room when she was 22. Sophie Dix, now 48, told The Guardian the alleged incident was "the single most damaging thing that's happened in [her] life."
• Colin Firth expressed his shame in an interview with The Guardian for not acting on information he was given by Dix about a "distressing encounter" she had with Weinstein. "I don't think she went into all the horrific detail I've read in her interview," he said. "But I remember her being profoundly upset by it. To my shame, I merely expressed sympathy."
• A caption accompanying an ITV interview with Anne-Marie Duff that stated she was "terrified of Weinstein" has been described as "misleading" and "a false statement" by the actress's representative. Duff had commented on the producer's "disgraceful behaviour" during an appearance on Lorraine Kelly's morning show. ITV later apologised for the "error".

• Tom Hanks has described Weinstein as "a bit of an ass" in a New York Times interview. "I've never worked with Harvey," he told the newspaper. "But, aah, it all just sort of fits, doesn't it?"
• Colin Farrell has described the accusations of sexual harassment made against Harvey Weinstein as "horrific". "I hope anyone who was hurt that they have healing," he said at the London Film Festival premiere of his latest film. "It's just atrocious, really."
• Ryan Gosling has tweeted in support of "the women who have had the courage to speak out" against Weinstein. The La La Land actor said he had worked with the producer and felt "deeply disappointed… for being so oblivious to these devastating experiences of sexual harassment and abuse".
• The Producers Guild of America is to hold an emergency board meeting on Saturday to discuss its response to the Weinstein allegations. Deadline claims it is likely Weinstein will be expelled from the guild, which previously honoured the producer and his brother Bob with its prestigious Milestone Award.
• The co-creators of Broadway musical Into the Heights have expressed a desire for a proposed film adaptation not to be made by Harvey Weinstein's former company. "I hope The Weinstein Company has enough grace… to allow us to extricate Into the Heights from them," wrote Quiara Alegria Hudes in a post that was retweeted by collaborator Lin-Manuel Miranda.
• TMZ claims Harvey Weinstein had an provision in his 2015 employment contract that said he could escape being fired for misconduct if he reimbursed the company for any settlements or judgements made against him. The website suggests Weinstein could have been fired illegally. The BBC has contacted The Weinstein Company and is awaiting a response.

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Iran nuclear deal: Trump to reveal tough new strategy

US President Donald Trump is expected to set out a more confrontational strategy towards Iran, accusing it of pursuing "death and destruction".

It is thought he will focus on its non-nuclear activities, particularly those of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), accused of supporting terrorism.

The new strategy calls for stricter enforcement of the 2015 nuclear deal.

He is expected to refuse to certify to Congress that Iran is complying with the deal.

Official sources have told the Associated Press Mr Trump will say Iran is living up to the letter of the agreement but also that the deal is fatally flawed.

While he may not ask for sanctions to be re-imposed, he may urge Congress to approve tough new requirements for Tehran to continue to benefit from sanctions relief.

Mr Trump is under pressure at home and abroad not to scrap the seven-country deal under which Iran agreed to freeze its nuclear programme in return for the partial lifting of sanctions.

If he did decertify it, it would not mean pulling out of the deal but it would open up a path under which Congress could eventually halt US compliance with the deal.

During last year's election campaign, Mr Trump pledged to throw out the agreement concluded under his predecessor, Barack Obama.

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President Trump has called the Iran nuclear accord the "worst deal ever negotiated", and threatened to tear it up.

It looks, though, as if he will first try to "fix" it. He is expected to tell Congress that Iran is not meeting certain conditions set by US law; that the deal's benefits are too meagre, for example, to justify continued sanctions relief.

Then it would be up to lawmakers to decide whether to re-impose sanctions.

Mr Trump is unlikely to advocate they do so now. Even critics of the deal fear this would isolate the US and weaken its credibility, because Iran is complying with the agreement.

Republicans have suggested they could use decertification as leverage to get the changes they want.

Why is Trump speaking now?

Under the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (Inara), Congress requires the US president to certify every 90 days that Iran is upholding its part of the nuclear agreement.

Mr Trump has already recertified it twice and has a deadline of Sunday to make his latest report back.

Refusal to recertify would give Congress 60 days to decide whether to pull out of the nuclear deal by re-imposing sanctions.

What is Trump likely to announce?

At a speech earlier on Thursday, Mr Trump called Iran "a terrorist nation like few others" and said his Iran announcement, which will be made in the White House, would be "very interesting".

A strategy paper released by the White House highlights calls for neutralising Iran's "destabilising influence and constraining its aggression, particularly its support for terrorism and militants".

The US, it says, will work to revitalise traditional alliances and regional partnerships as "bulwarks against Iranian subversion".

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Efforts will be made to deny funding for the Iranian government and the IRGC's "malign activities" and counter threats from ballistic missiles "and other asymmetric weapons".

The nuclear deal does not cover the missile development programmes, and last month Iran successfully tested a new-medium range missile with a 2,000km (1,200-mile) range.

The IRGC's "gross violations of human rights" will be highlighted to the rest of the world," the strategy paper says.

"Most importantly, we will deny the Iranian regime all paths to a nuclear weapon."

What will Trump do about the deal?

What do other key players say?

Foreign leaders, including UK Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron, have urged Mr Trump to keep the deal.

"We also have to tell the Americans that their behaviour on the Iran issue will drive us Europeans into a common position with Russia and China against the USA," German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel warned in a newspaper interview.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that US withdrawal from the nuclear deal would "damage the atmosphere of predictability, security, stability and non-proliferation in the entire world".

Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt said a US withdrawal from the deal would show it could not be relied upon and could have ramifications elsewhere, for example on efforts to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue.

The IAEA and Congress currently both agree Iran is complying with the terms of the nuclear agreement.

What is Iran's position?

The speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Larijani, said on a visit to Russia that a US withdrawal from the deal would signal its end.

He warned that the collapse of the deal could result in global chaos, Russian media report.

What is the nuclear deal?

Formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, it is designed to prevent Iran developing a nuclear weapon.

It lifted some sanctions that stopped Iran from trading on international markets and selling oil.

The lifting of sanctions is dependent on Iran restricting its nuclear programme. It must curb its uranium stockpile, build no more heavy-water reactors for 15 years and allow inspectors into the country.

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Who are the Revolutionary Guards?

Set up shortly after the 1979 Iranian revolution to defend the country's Islamic system, they provide a counterweight to the regular armed forces.

They are a major military, political and economic force in Iran, with some 125,000 active members, and oversee strategic weapons.

They have been accused of supporting Shia Muslim militants in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Syria.

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Microwave breakthrough helps boost hard drive sizes

The data-storing abilities of hard drives could soon swell to 40 terabytes (TB) and beyond, says Western Digital.

Currently the largest hard disk drive (HDD) that stores data on spinning disks can hold about 14TB of information.

Western Digital said the bigger drives were made possible by finding a way to use microwaves to write data on 3.5in drives.

The first bigger-capacity drives should go on sale in 2019.

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While solid state drives are popular with home users, many large companies and web firms fill data centres with disks that depend on moving parts because, at high capacities, they are much cheaper and last longer. The drives store data on disks or platters that spin at high speed.

A disk with a data capacity of 40 terabytes would be able to hold more than 2,500 two-hour movies encoded at a standard resolution.

Western Digital said it could produce the big drives as it had found a way to increase the density of data recorded on a disk by using microwaves – a technique known as microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR). The company is the first to produce a disk that uses this technology.

An allied method that uses heat instead of microwaves was thought to be the best way to help HDDs grow in capacity but it is known to be an expensive and technically tricky way to boost data density. The resulting devices, whose platters must be regularly heated beyond 400C, can also suffer reliability problems.

Heat-assisted magnetic recording also requires changes in manufacturing plants and the materials used to make the magnetic platters that hold data. By contrast, MAMR requires far fewer changes to manufacturing and works with materials currently used to make HDDs.

In a statement, Western Digital said it had produced prototype MAMR drives this year, and would give engineering samples to key customers in 2018 and start volume production in 2019. By 2025, further refinement of the technology would push capacities past 40TB, it said.

It added that a novel method of boosting data capacities was needed as it was getting harder to squeeze more data into HDDs using existing techniques.

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EU Spain: Juncker does not want Catalonian independence

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said he does not back Catalan independence, fearing others may follow the same path.

Mr Juncker, speaking at a students forum in Luxembourg, warned it could result in a region too complicated for the European Union (EU) to govern.

Spain has been in turmoil since the separatist government in Catalonia held a disputed referendum on 1 October.

The vote, declared invalid by Spain's top court, had a 43% turnout.

Almost 90% of voters backed independence, Catalan officials say, resulting in Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont signing a symbolic declaration of independence on Tuesday.

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However, he then suspended its implementation to allow several weeks for talks with Madrid.

Madrid, in turn, has issued its own ultimatum, with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy giving Mr Puigdemont five days to explain whether or not he has declared independence.

If Mr Puigdemont confirms by Monday that he has, he will be given a further three days to withdraw the declaration.

If this does not work, Madrid has threatened to invoke Article 155 of the constitution, allowing Spain to suspend Catalan autonomy and impose direct rule.

Speaking at Luxembourg University on Friday, Mr Juncker urged Mr Rajoy – who has described the current situation as the most serious threat to Spain's democracy in its 40-year history – to bring the situation under control.

The EU has made clear that, should Catalonia split from Spain, the region would cease to be part of the EU.

It has also made it clear the issue of independence was one for Spain.

However, Mr Juncker was open with his own views on the issue.

"If we allow, but it's not our business, that Catalonia becomes independent, others will do the same and I wouldn't like that," he said.

"I wouldn't like a European Union in 15 years that consists of some 90 states."

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Syria war: Turkish forces set up positions in Idlib

Turkish soldiers and armoured vehicles have crossed into Syria as part of an operation Ankara says is aimed at stopping fighting in Idlib province.

A military statement said the forces would set up observation posts to help monitor a "de-escalation zone" in line with an agreement with Russia and Iran.

Idlib is largely controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadist alliance linked to al-Qaeda.

It also borders the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, which Turkey wants to contain.

Turkey backs the opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and last year supported a rebel offensive against so-called Islamic State (IS) along the border in neighbouring Aleppo province.

That operation also served to prevent a US-backed alliance that is led by the Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) seizing the territory and reaching Afrin.

Ankara considers the YPG an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought for Kurdish autonomy in Turkey for three decades.

Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency reported that military convoys had crossed into Idlib from Reyhanli in the southern Turkish province of Hatay.

The Hurriyet newspaper said about 30 armoured vehicles and more than 100 soldiers were taking part in the operation, and speculated that more troops could be sent in the coming days.

The Turkish military statement said its soldiers had started their activities in Idlib by establishing observation posts in line with a plan agreed last month with Russia and Iran – which back President Assad – in the Kazakh capital Astana.

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The three powers said they would each send about 500 observers to positions along the edge of the de-escalation zone to prevent clashes between Syrian government and rebel forces, allow the delivery of humanitarian aid and establish conditions necessary for the return of displaced people.

HTS, which was formed in January by a group previously known as al-Nusra Front, warned that the move would "end with restoring Bashar's rule" to Idlib.

However, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that HTS fighters had escorted the Turkish troops towards a western area adjoining Afrin.

A Kurdish militiaman told the Associated Press that the troops were stationed in three separate points along a "front" between Afrin and Idlib.

An official in a Free Syrian Army (FSA) faction said the Turkish deployment would "ensure the area is protected from Russian and regime bombing and to foil any attempt by the separatist YPG militias to illegally seize any territory".

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed last week that he would not allow the YPG to form a "terror corridor" to the Mediterranean, which would require the Kurds capturing mountainous areas held by opposition and government forces.

CNN Turk reported that there had been a clash in the Idlib countryside near the Ogulpinar border crossing, but it was not clear which forces were involved.

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US voices frustration with 'warrant-proof' encryption

The US deputy attorney general says the use of "warrant-proof encryption" in popular apps and operating systems, is hampering law enforcement.

Several apps encrypt communications end-to-end, which stop messages being legible if intercepted by criminals or law enforcement.

In a speech, Rod Rosenstein said law enforcers were increasingly thwarted by such encryption.

He met Home Secretary Amber Rudd on Thursday to discuss the issue.

He will also meet the head of the UK's GCHQ intelligence agency.

"Increasingly, the tools we use to collect evidence run up against encryption tools which are designed to defeat them," said Mr Rosenstein, speaking at the Global Cyber Security Summit in London.

He said the United States was "co-ordinating with our foreign partners as to what the challenges are".

With end-to-end encryption, messages are scrambled when they leave the sender's device and are decrypted only on the receiver's device.

It means service providers such as WhatsApp cannot hand over a legible copy of a suspect's messages to law enforcement, because they do not have one.

Mr Rosenstein said technology companies often "resisted co-operating with governments".

Ms Rudd has also described encryption tools used by messaging apps as a "problem".

In August, she met representatives from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and others at a counter-terrorism forum in San Francisco.

She called on companies to work "more closely" with the government but said she did not want to "weaken encryption".

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While any man can father a kid, there is a great deal more to the vital part of being father in a youngster’s life. How about we take a gander at father’s identity, and why he is so imperative. Fathers are vital to the passionate prosperity of their children; they are competent guardians and caretakers. Fathers’ association in and impact on the wellbeing and advancement of their kids have expanded in a bunch of routes in the previous 10 years and have been generally contemplated. This report audits new investigations of the study of disease transmission of father contribution, including nonresidential and in addition private fathers. The impacts of father contribution on tyke results are talked about inside each period of a kid’s advancement. Specific accentuation is put on fathers’ contribution crosswise over youth ages and the impact of fathers’ physical and psychological wellness on their kids. Suggestions and guidance for all kid well being suppliers to empower and bolster father inclusion are sketched out.

Funny isn’t it?

Each child needs an included and adoring father. Fathers give both physical and mental help to their children. Curiously however, here and there current society neglects to completely perceive the father’s part in the family and characteristically restrains it to giving money related help.

You’ll find it funny for sure!!

Lovely isn’t it!

Why Dads Matter:

Indeed, various investigations have achieved a similar conclusion: Children with included fathers have a favorable position – socially and scholastically – over kids with inaccessible or no associations with their fathers. “We found that fathers who are included with their kids have kids with fewer issues. That additional contribution from a father helps kids immensely.” Strikingly, this outcome remains constant regardless of the possibility that the father does not live in an indistinguishable home from the children for instance, in separate circumstances.

This father deserves an Oscar!

We are tragically reducing the significance of the father’s part in the family and in the bringing up of kids. As should be obvious from the examination, families in which the fathers were associated with bringing up the kids, report less unintentional and unexpected losses, not as much as normal contact with the law, less substance manhandle, less healing facility affirmations and a more noteworthy feeling of prosperity by and large.

It often appears like mothers and fathers went to various child-rearing schools. Our moms dependably stress about us and attempt to be strict. Born Realist has put together 15 texts which will show love between father and children. Also, they set a great case.

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The advantages of including fathers being taken care of by their youngsters amid the early years isn’t restricted to the well being and prosperity of the kids however thinks about back the entire family.

Father’s Impact on His Sons:

For instance, young men who have included fathers are less inclined to get stuck in an unfortunate situation with the police as they get more established. Different pluses, as per specialists: A great father can be a positive good example for young men and help them to embrace a sound way of life and in addition a superior attention to their sentiments and feelings. Be that as it may, somebody other than the kid’s introduction to the world father can give an advantageous male impact.

Father’s Impact on His Daughters:

Young ladies, as well, receive some extraordinary rewards from having a nearby father-little girl bond. As per inquire about from Vanderbilt University, young ladies who had close, positive associations with their fathers amid the initial five years of life tended to achieve adolescence later than young ladies who had more far off associations with their fathers. Young ladies who had more included fathers were more averse to confront emotional well-being issues sometime down the road. Honest to goodness acclaim and profound respect from a father can enable his girl to grow up to be a free, sure lady. It is essential to perceive and reward fathers for being there, and currently instructing critical fundamental abilities to youngsters. It is critical to their youngsters, and significant to fathers wherever when you say “Thank you, work well done.” This, all things considered, is the thing that makes life worth living. This is your actual inheritance: guaranteeing the well being and prosperity of your kids, that future age to be.

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Man-eating Indian tiger faces 'shoot-to-kill' order

A court in India's western state of Maharashtra has upheld an order to kill a two-year-old tigress responsible for killing four people.

Wildlife activists had challenged a shoot-to-kill order issued by the state forest department on 23 June.

The tigress was first captured in July after killing two people and injuring four in the town of Brahmapuri, in Maharashtra.

It was set free in Bor Tiger Reserve, but has since killed two more people.

Dr Jerryl Banait, who opposed the order to shoot the big cat, told the BBC that he would challenge the verdict in India's Supreme Court.

Animal rights activists insist the tigress should be tranquilised and moved to another location. But panic is growing among the locals in its territory.

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Forest officials who have been tracking the animal, which is named Kala, said it has covered more than 500km (310 miles) since entering the reserve on 29 July.

India is home to 60% of the world's tigers, which are threatened by loss of habitat, and poachers who kill them for body parts used in traditional Chinese medicine.

With increasing human encroachment into their reserves, tigers often compete for resources with nearby villagers, leading to conflict.

Tiger deaths have steadily gone up in recent years. In 2015, Indian officials reported 80 tiger deaths, compared to 78 in the previous year.

Most attacks on people are chance encounters gone wrong, and the victims are rarely dragged away as prey.

However, a series of attacks on people in quick succession is considered a tell-tale sign of a man-eater at work.

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