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After fleeing persecution or economic meltdown in their home countries, up to a third of refugee children in South Africa are denied the right to an education.
New research suggests that schools turn away refugee children who don’t have required...
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The US is drawing up plans to send 7,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan to combat a resurgent Taleban and al-Qaeda, at a time when Nato countries appear unwilling to contribute further forces.
The increase is being considered by the Pentagon...
It was an incongruous sight. King Carl XVI Gustaf, bespectacled monarch of Sweden, and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the bush-bearded populist who has governed Brazil since 2003, riding a downtown bus in Stockholm last autumn. The reason the two...
Health inspectors said a Sanford, Fla., fast-food restaurant was found to have been storing hamburger buns on the floor of the men’s room.
The inspectors said the improper bun storage at the restaurant was among the eatery’s 12 alleged...
Rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo believe that rising demand for ivory in China is to blame for an unprecedented wave of elephant poaching in one of the country’s war-torn national parks.
Fourteen elephants have been slaughtered in as...
ADL survey finds growing number of Israeli youth believe Israel under ’serious threat of destruction,’ but only nine percent deem second Holocaust as real possibility
A majority of Israeli teens believe the country is under “serious...
THE health, education, home ownership rate and employment of Australia’s indigenous people are improving but they are are still dying 17 years earlier than the rest of the population.
A new report shows the rate of infant mortality in indigenous...
BG Group’s big bid for Origin Energy poses a dilemma for Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan.
They won’t block it - nor should they - and, as a result, can expect to have the Chinese on their case complaining about double standards should they move...
Israel is coming under concerted international pressure to give swift agreement to specific measures to improve Palestinian life in the West Bank which senior diplomats believe could eventually make or break negotiations between the Israeli Prime...
Iran will hand over to Russia a package of proposals designed to defuse a nuclear row with world powers, an Iranian official said on Monday without giving details.
Iran said this month it would soon unveil ideas to help end the dispute over its nuclear...
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