Children in Syria are showing symptoms of "toxic stress" and "deep psychological scars," after nearly six years of living in a constant state of fear, a new report by the international Save the Children Fund warns.

"When we do activities like singing with them, they don't respond at all. They don't laugh like they would normally. They draw images of children being butchered in the war, or tanks, or the siege and the lack of food", the report titled Invisible Wounds quotes a teacher in the besieged town of Madaya as saying.

Anti-hate advocacy groups are concerned about growing recruitment attempts by white supremacist groups on college campuses across the country. The Anti-Defamation League believes that the sudden increase of recruitment efforts is unprecedented.

The ADL is concerned that the surge in reports of anti-Semitic graffiti, racial slurs and other hate-related behavior is the result of white supremacist groups' recent outreach efforts on college campuses.

While some may argue over whether colleges are too liberal, there is another fight potentially brewing on campus. The ADL found that there was a large uptick in reports of hate-related activities on campus and reported 104 incidents since September, with over half occurring since January, the Washington Post reported.

Facebook has been accused of letting sexually provocative pictures of children be published through its network, in pages aimed at pedophiles.

During a 2016 investigation into secret pedophile groups operating on the social network, the BBC discovered a series of pictures seemingly showing under 16s engaging in sexual acts.

But over a year later, many of the explicit images were still available on the network.

The channel said its reporters flagged up 100 pictures portraying the sexual abuse of children to Facebook, through the website's "report button." Only 18 of those images were removed, while the BBC received an automated email from Facebook saying that "community standards" had not been breached by all of the others.

When the BBC contacted Facebook with evidence, the website reported the broadcaster to the police.

"I find it hard to believe that individuals at Facebook had seen these images and made a decision that they were okay and hadn't breached their community rules," said the Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield.

The European Commission on Monday gave a green light to a new Russian-backed nuclear power project in Hungary, ending an investigation which began in 2015. The project was challenged by Brussels, which accused it of non-compliance with EU rules.

The Commission said Hungary's investment in the Paks-2 nuclear plant, backed by a loan from Russia, did represent a form of state aid. It invalidated Hungary's argument that the project was economically viable and imposed a number of conditions that came with the project's approval.

"During our investigation, the Hungarian government has made substantial commitments, which has allowed the Commission to approve the investment under EU state aid rules," said EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager.

An important project for Russia and Hungary, Paks-2 was agreed at the end of 2014.

The €12.5 billion contract, partly aided by Moscow's €10 billion loan, would add two new 1,200 megawatt (MW) reactors to Hungary's only operating nuclear power plant.

The number of babies born in Italy hit a record low in 2016, the population shrank and the average age crept higher, national statistics office ISTAT said on Monday.

Births dropped by 12,000 to 474,000 last year, the lowest level since the unification of Italy in 1861, while deaths totaled 608,000, ISTAT said.

The average Italian is now 44.9 years old, up 0.2 years from 2015, while some 22.3 percent of the population is over 65, the highest ratio in the 28-nation European Union.

The total population fell by some 86,000 to 60.58 million, with new migrants helping to offset the falling birth rate.

ISTAT said fertility rates fluctuated wildly between the industrialized north and the poorer south.

On the island of Sardinia, women had 1.07 children on average, while the only province where births rose was in Bolzano, near the border with Austria, where the fertility rate was 1.78.

If applied to the whole country, Bolzano's figures would put Italy among the most fertile countries in the European Union, ISTAT said, whereas with Sardinia's rate, "dangerously close to one child per woman, Italy would be in last place in Europe, and likely the world." The overall national average was 1.34 children per woman.

Friday was Richie Zaragoza's 10th birthday, and he wanted to go to the Star Buffet & Grill.

But when he drank the apple juice he'd been served, "he just started screaming, 'It burns, it burns,'" his mother, Virginia Davis, told LNP. His 4-year-old half-sister, Ginaya Mercado, had drunk some, too.

On Saturday afternoon, both children were reportedly in intensive care at Hershey Medical Center with severe burns of the mouth and throat. Somehow, a caustic substance had gotten in the cups. The liquid is reportedly being tested; no futher information was available Saturday afternoon.

The children were reportedly transported by helicopter to Hershey from Lancaster General Hospital, where they had been taken by ambulance.

Davis is in shock: "How do you take your kids out and expect this to happen?" she said.

Her son already is struggling with multiple medical conditions, including cystic fibrosis and diabetes. "He's been through a lot," said his father, Richard Zaragoza Sr., who has primary custody and takes care of Richie at his city home. Richie had been gone less than an hour when his mother called with the terrible news, Zaragoza said.

The FBI raided the Maryland home of a Washington Post tech employee last month and arrested him after he was accused of impersonating a federal customs agent.

Itai Ozderman, 35, was released on bond last month after the raid, according to news channel ABC 7 in D.C. Ozderman, originally from Israel, was working at the Washington Post at the time in the IT division, the news channel said.

He allegedly impersonated an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Virginia multiple times, according to court documents obtained by ABC 7. Ozderman also tried to enforce criminal laws.

When the FBI raided his Gaithersburg home Feb. 22 around 6 a.m., agents found 10 weapons, including handguns, assault rifles, and a shotgun, the news agency said.

It's not clear if Ozderman is still employed by the Washington Post.

Sources told ABC 7 he pretended to be an ICE agent numerous times in Falls Church, Va., several times.

Franklin County deputies have charged a teen with murder after his mother was decapitated Monday in what the sheriff described as a "gruesome scene."

It happened at a home on Morgan Drive near Stonehill Drive just south of U.S. Highway 64. The area is east of Zebulon - near the Wake County line, in a normally quiet corner of Franklin County.

Franklin County Sheriff's Office Chief of Staff Terry Wright said 18-year-old Oliver Funez called 911 himself around 12:45 p.m. Monday and was still on the scene when deputies arrived.

After calling 911, the 18-year-old suspect walked out of the house holding his mother's head in one hand and what appeared to be a large knife in the other, according to authorities. "It looked to be a large butcher knife, the weapon that was used." said Sheriff Kent Winstead.

The teen - who was taken into custody without incident - is charged with first-degree murder. Deputies said they found 35-year-old Yesenia Funez Beatriz Machado dead inside the home.

Two young girls found in the home were unharmed. A fourth child was at school when the incident happened.

"They had effectively dehumanized me."

Allison Stanger, a professor of politics and economics at Middlebury College, says the mob of angry protesters who attacked her last week during Charles Murray's visit to campus "had effectively dehumanized me."

"They couldn't look me in the eye, because if they had, they would have seen another human being," she wrote in a post about the incident.

As I reported previously, Stanger had intended to serve as the moderator of the event: a discussion with American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray, the controversial author of The Bell Curve and Coming Apart. In her post, Stanger describes herself as a Democrat who does not agree with Murray, but nevertheless believes campus is a place for a robust debate about a variety of viewpoints.

Stanger's firsthand account of what transpired can be found here. A few highlights:

I agreed to participate in the event with Charles Murray, because several of my students asked me to do so. They are smart and good people, all of them, and this was their big event of the year. I actually welcomed the opportunity to be involved, because while my students may know I am a Democrat, all of my courses are nonpartisan, and this was a chance to demonstrate publicly my commitment to a free and fair exchange of views in my classroom. As the campus uproar about his visit built, I was genuinely surprised and troubled to learn that some of my faculty colleagues had rendered judgement on Dr. Murray's work and character, while openly admitting that they had not read anything he had written. With the best of intentions, they offered their leadership to enraged students, and we all now know what the results were. ...

I want you to know what it feels like to look out at a sea of students yelling obscenities at other members of my beloved community. There were students and faculty who wanted to hear the exchange, but were unable to do so, either because of the screaming and chanting and chair-pounding in the room, or because their seats were occupied by those who refused to listen, and they were stranded outside the doors. I saw some of my faculty colleagues who had publicly acknowledged that they had not read anything Dr. Murray had written join the effort to shut down the lecture. All of this was deeply unsettling to me. What alarmed me most, however, was what I saw in student eyes from up on that stage. Those who wanted the event to take place made eye contact with me. Those intent on disrupting it steadfastly refused to do so. It was clear to me that they had effectively dehumanized me. They couldn't look me in the eye, because if they had, they would have seen another human being. There is a lot to be angry about in America today, but nothing good ever comes from demonizing our brothers and sisters.

Stanger goes on to explain how she was attacked outside the event, resulting in a neck injury that landed her in the hospital.

If you were to come across someone who cried in the streets, who saw the world in terms of black and white and made death threats against strangers, who cowered in a special room and made public displays of naked self-harm and blood letting, you might conclude that they were suffering from a personality disorder.

All these symptoms can be found in the High Conflict Personality Disorder category known as Axis II in DSMV, including Anti-Social PD, Histrionic PD, Paranoid PD, Narcissistic PD, and Borderline PD.

Alternatively, you might reason that these are the everyday behaviors of the modern Social Justice Warrior (SJW).

Of course, not every SJW has a personality condition, but sufferers from High Conflict disorders are often drawn to extreme beliefs and behaviors under the illusion that they are acting politically.

A 2016 UK survey found that, since 1990, rates of depression and anxiety among the young have increased by 70%, while the American Counseling Association has reported a "rising tide of personality disorders among millennials."

That such disorders appear to be an acute problem with this generation may be an unintended outcome of the unprecedented experiment conducted in the 1990s and 2000s by progressive parents.