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1 of the 3 Palestinian students shot in Vermont is paralyzed from the shooting, his mother says

By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Hisham Awartani, one of the three Palestinian college students who were shot while walking in Vermont over Thanksgiving weekend, is paralyzed from the chest down after a bullet became lodged in his spine, his mother said. Awartani’s family has launched a GoFundMe fundraiser to help the 20-year-old junior at Brown University,

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‘A hero every day’: He joined Ukraine’s Maidan protests at 16. At 24, he died fighting Russia

By Jessie Yeung, Anna Coren and Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Taras Ratushnyy remembers receiving a phone call from his son Roman during Ukraine’s deadly 2013 Maidan Revolution. “I’m okay, we are coming back home with my friends from (Kyiv’s Maidan Square). Don’t worry and good night,” Roman said over the phone –

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