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| - We are offering the following stories which have been selected by AFP's chief editors for re-publication as some of the best of the week: + Body work: Russia's 'biohackers' push boundaries + In the US, leftist local prosecutors make inroads + Iraqis wanted to topple the system, but taboos fell instead + Addiction in paradise: Seychelles battles heroin crisis + 'Tiger widows' shunned as bad luck in rural Bangladesh + Kazakh violence makes Chinese Muslim minority ponder future Russia-health-lifestyle-technology,FEATURE MOSCOW Gripping a scalpel, Vladislav Zaitsev makes an incision in the fold of skin between his client's thumb and index finger and pushes in a small glass cylinder. 1,400 words by Anna Malpas and Nikolay Korzhov. Pictures by Dimitar Dilkoff. Video by Nikolay Korzhov and Romain Colas US-politics-justice-prison,FEATURE ARLINGTON, United States President Donald Trump is appointing judges by the dozens to US federal courts, ensuring a conservative tilt. But locally, a small group of progressive state prosecutors have been elected -- and they have big ideas about criminal justice reform. 1,000 words by Charlotte Plantive. Picture by Eric Baradat. Video by Bastien Inzaurralde Iraq politics protests society,FOCUS BAGHDAD Mocking clerics, falling in love at rallies and mending a broken society: even if Iraq's young protesters have failed to overthrow entrenched politicians, they have scored by shattering decades-old taboos. 800 words by Mohamad Ali Hariss Seychelles-health-crime-drugs,FEATURE LES MAMELLES, Seychelles On a plain suburban street in Seychelles, far from the idyllic coastline and luxury resorts pampering honeymooners and paradise-seekers, heroin addicts queue anxiously for their daily dose of methadone. 950 words by Nicolas Delaunay. Pictures by Yasuyoshi Chiba. Video by Celine Clery Bangladesh animal tiger women conservation,FEATURE Shyamnagar, Bangladesh Abandoned by her sons, shunned by her neighbours and branded a witch. Mosammat Rashida's crime? Her husband was killed by a Bengal tiger. 800 words by Sam Jahan. Photos by Munir Uz Zaman. Video by Sam Jahan Kazakhstan unrest minorities China,FOCUS MASANCHI, Kazakhstan As Khusei Daurov lay dazed after being caught up in inter-ethnic clashes near his home in southern Kazakhstan, he felt the cold steel of a pistol against his forehead. 1000 words by Christopher RICKLETON. Pictures by Vyacheslav Oseledko. Video by Abdulaziz Madiyarov
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