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According to Human Rights Watch, Russian forces have deliberately targeted civilians in the city with FPV drones and killed or maimed them - a war crime.

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In another instance, a bear maimed the hand of a man living in the Chantry Flat area of the Angeles National Forest.

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During this century, in the Middle East, the U.S.-Israel duo has vastly outdone all other entities combined in the categories of killing, maiming and terrorizing.

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In “The Air as Air,” Sidney, a vet maimed in Iraq, belongs to a recovery movement focused on breath.

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Though Spike gets a few solid practice kills in on the slow-moving undead, his nerves get the best of him when it comes to the Alphas, wasting arrows that do little more than maim.

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

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