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Pakistan warns US on Afghan plan...in attacks by both separatist insurgents and Taliban fighters. In wider Pakistan, suicide attacks and bombings have killed more than 2,550 people in the last 29 months. President Obama is due to unveil his new Afghanistan policy next... In this article: Pakistan, US, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Suicide, Taliban, and Iran |
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washingtonpost.com | November 18, 2009
Iran detention centre doctor commits suicide: IRNA
Iran detention centre doctor commits suicide: IRNA TEHRAN (Reuters) - A doctor who died at the Kahrizak detention center, closed after the deaths there of several protesters against June's disputed election, committed suicide, state media...
In this article: Iran, Islamic, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Tehran
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ITN Headline News - World News | November 20, 2009
Afghan market blast kills 15
Afghan market blast kills 15 Fri Nov 20 2009 10:50:45 A suicide bombing at a market in south-west Afghanistan has killed at least 15 people, including one senior police official. Local authorities say the attack in Farah City in Farah, a...
In this article: Farah, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, NATO, Hamid Karzai, and Iran
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L.A. Times - Babylon & Beyond | November 12, 2009
IRAN, PAKISTAN: Death of consular official in Peshawar raises stakes
...diplomats working at the consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif. Tensions have spiked between Pakistan and Iran following a suicide bombing that killed 42 people in southeastern Iran last month. Fifteen members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, including...
In this article: Iran, Pakistan, Peshawar, Abdolmalek Rigi, Jundallah, Taliban, God, and Islamic Republic News Agency
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BBC News | November 12, 2009
Iran embassy man shot in Pakistan
...Shia-Sunni sectarian tensions. Relations between Iran and Sunni-majority Pakistan have been strained since Iran said Pakistan-based agents were involved in a recent suicide bombing in south-east Iran. Forty-two people died in October's...
In this article: Pakistan, Iran, Jundullah, Peshawar, Islamabad, and BBC
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Iran's national police chief, contradicting earlier accounts, asserted that a military doctor who reportedly testified about the abuse of detained protesters committed suicide last week, state-run news media reported Wednesday. Police...
In this article: Iran, Uranium, United Nations, United States, Moscow, and International Atomic Energy Agency
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Iran mourns suicide bomb victims
Iran mourns suicide bomb victims The Revolutionary Guards killed in the attack were buried on Sunday Revolutionary Guards members killed in Sunday's suicide bombing in south-eastern Iran have been buried. Thousands of mourners, many in...
In this article: Iran, Zahedan, Jundallah, United States, and Ali Larijani
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thumb|right|320px|A painting of the English romantic poet [[Thomas Chatterton, believed to have killed himself with arsenic in 1770]]
Suicide (Latin suicidium, from sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the intentional taking of one's own life. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest" (e.g., "political suicide"). Suicide may occur for a number of reasons, including depression, shame, guilt, desperation, physical pain, emotional pressure, anxiety, financial difficulties, or other undesirable situations. The World Health Organization noted that over one million people commit suicide every year, and that it is one of the leading causes of death among teenagers and adults under 35. There are an estimated 10 to 20 million non-fatal attempted suicides every year worldwide.
Views on suicide have been influenced by cultural views on existential themes such as religion, honor, and the meaning of life. The Abrahamic religions consider suicide an offense towards God due to religious belief in the sanctity of life. In the West it was often regarded as a serious crime. Japanese views on honor and religion led to seppuku, one of the most painful methods of suicide, to be respected as a means to atone for mistakes or failure, or as a form of protest during the samurai era. In the 20th century, suicide in the form of self-immolation has been used as a form of protest, and in the form of kamikaze and suicide bombing as a military or terrorist tactic. Sati is a Hindu funeral practice in which the widow would immolate herself on her husband's funeral pyre, either willingly, or under pressure from the family and in-laws.
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