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Australian girls are being hunted by online crime networks and coerced into acts of violence - against themselves, their siblings or pets - in a "twisted type of gamification", police have warned.

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During the year of abuse Davies also encouraged or coerced his victim into filming herself committing acts of self-harm and bought her razors to facilitate this.

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Mr. Martins has claimed that Justice de Moraes needed a reason to keep him behind bars because the justice was trying to coerce a confession about the alleged Bolsonaro plot.

The Chinese are also seeking to coerce other countries to stop cooperating with U.S. export controls.

The President also leveraged Qatar, Turkey and Egypt to coerce Hamas into a deal.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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