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posed all such unilateral penalties, whether against Iran, Sudan, Cuba, Myanmar or any country.
• That opposition, he said, dates back to his time in Namibia, where he saw the damage that sanctions can have on innocent people.
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Galles had been hoisted off the ground in a tight stranglehold and choked so vigorously that she says she nearly passed out. She fled her home and called the police on her then-boyfriend, who was charged with a misdemeanor and spared a prison sentence after pleading guilty.
• Moved by that case and others like it, South Dakota this year joined a growing list of states that have made non-fatal choking a felony crime, which is more serious and can carry stiffer penalties. Anti-domestic violence groups behind the effort say the laws are intended not only to secure tough prison sentences for domestic abusers but also to promote awareness of a crime they say often precedes homicide -- yet is chronically under-prosecuted.
• "For decades, we've simply lumped it into assault or battery or causing injury to another," said Scott Burns, executive director of the National District Attorneys Association. "But there's a heightened awareness that this is something different. This is far more serious."
• Attempted strangulation cases have long vexed police and prosecutors seeking

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