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  Today's case is the sad murder of Australian woman, Beth Barnard. A tragic death that occurred on picturesque Phillip Island, just off the coast of Melbourne, in the state of Victoria. Vivienne Cameron was suspected to be responsible for the murder. However, police never had the chance to question her as she mysteriously disappeared on the same night that Beth died. What happened? Why can't police answer the burning questions of why one woman was brutally murdered and her suspected killer vanished without a trace? Let's find out! Beth Barnard A HORRIFIC MURDER On the night of 22 September 1986, the body of young farm hand, Beth Barnard, was found viciously stabbed and mutilated with the letter ''A'' carved in her abdomen. Her throat was cut, she had a broken tooth and her faced was slashed.  When police found her, the body was covered with a quilt. This led police to suspect that the murder was committed by either a woman or someone that cared for Beth ver

North Korea, the Hermit Kingdom, has managed to keep the international eyes out even more since the pandemic started and their borders went firmly shut. We were graced with two very interesting pieces of news from North Korea in the past week.  MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT PARADE  In what has been called ''The Parade of Paramilitary and Public Security Forces'' which included labourers, research groups and regional party leaders coming to march in the Kim Il-Sung Square under the watchful gaze of the national Dear Leader, Kim Jong-un. There was no heavy weaponry or strong military force to be found.  Paratroopers riding motorcycles in the parade The parade featured paratroopers dropping from the sky, and the most striking group were the orange hazmat suit clad, gas mask wearing unit called the ''emergency disease prevention unit''. The purpose of these ''anti-pandemic'' fighters was to showcase how North Korea has kept it's population

After 20 years of almost normal freedom, the country of Afghanistan is once more thrown in the dark ages in regards to women's rights. The Taliban has formed a new government, formally announcing the start of their reign with the hoisting of their flag over the Afghan presidential palace on September 11, 2021. So, on the same day that the United States of America was mourning the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the World Trade Centre attacks where 2,977 people died.  Taliban flag flying on top of the Afghanistan presidential palace JUST ANNOUNCED: Women can still study at university, but.... Today, it came out in all the newspapers that the Taliban have announced that women can still attend university. The only problem is that they specified a set of almost unachievable rules that will mean that women will not be able to go to university if the resources or space does not meet the demands.  Women can still attend university, even post-graduate studies if: classes are gender-seg

Last month was a historic and tragic time in the long, battle weary past of Afghanistan. The ones suffering the most will be the Afghani women, who have experienced periods of freedom, education and almost equal status in society. Under Taliban rule, their lives will take a 180 degrees into the past with bans on music, dancing, going to school, forced marriage and sexual slavery. It is so bad that some women would rather die than to be wed to a Taliban fighter! In this post, we will explore what life will be like for women under the new Taliban regime, and why they would rather commit suicide than to live that sad, small and secluded life devoid of freedoms and education.  Female Afghani soldiers WOMEN'S RIGHTS TAKEN AWAY On September 27, 1996 the Taliban seized control of Kabul, and previously Herat in 1994. They overtook the then current Afghanistan government and set up their own totalitarian dictatorship that ruled with an iron fist. They set up a gender apartheid that