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Dutch doctor faces first euthanasia prosecution

The Netherlands became, along with Belgium, the first country in the world to legalise so-called mercy killing. [Courtesy]

Dutch authorities are prosecuting a doctor for euthanising an elderly woman with dementia in the first case of its kind since the practice was legalised in 2002, officials said Friday.

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