It’s shameful that child labour and child slavery still exist, says Nobel laureate Satyarthi
Full Article The Times of India
24 Mar 2015

The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize given jointly to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, two child rights activists from India and Pakistan, set a perfect example of global harmony. Hearing Kailash Satyarthi on the occasion was an experience of a lifetime. Satyarthi gave his acceptance speech in Hindi. Indian President Pranab Mukherjee said, "I was very...

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File - Young children work at a road construction site in Pune, India. UNICEF has estimated that India has the most child labourers in the world under the age of 14.
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Kailash Satyarthi Fighting Child Labour with the ILO
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Kailash Satyarthi Indian children's rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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Kailash Satyarthi, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
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Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi seeks new law to check child labour in India
updated 10 Oct 2014; published 10 Oct 2014
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Kailash Satyarthi The Nobel Prize winner 2014
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Nobel Peace prizewinners Malala and Satyarthi call for action on children's rights
Yemen over the edge
Full Article Al Jazeera
24 Mar 2015

Up until a week ago, there was a slim margin of hope that Yemen might somehow avoid civil war, and that there was a political solution to the ongoing power struggle between President Abd-Rabbou Mansour Hadi, its democratically elected leader, and the Houthi rebels. It certainly wasn't from a lack of trying, with Hadi himself, the United Nations and...

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File - A Houthi Shiite Yemeni stands guard in front of a building damaged during recent clashes near the presidential palace in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015.
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Yemen on edge after leader resigns
updated 24 Mar 2015; published 24 Mar 2015
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World News - Yemen conflict - civil war or Saleh-out
updated 21 Jan 2015; published 21 Jan 2015
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Leaked audio links ex-Yemen leader to Houthis
updated 19 Sep 2014; published 19 Sep 2014
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Yemen: Houthi rebels and militia clash in Sanaa
updated 02 Nov 2014; published 02 Nov 2014
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Houthi Rebels Give Yemen's President 10 Days To Form Government - TOI
updated 23 Jan 2015; published 23 Jan 2015
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Hailed as U.S. Counterterrorism Model in Middle East, Yemen Teeters on the Brink of Collapse
Evidence of largest asteroid impact zone on Earth found in Australian outback
Full Article The Guardian
24 Mar 2015

Two huge meteorite scars spanning 400km have been linked to one huge asteroid, creating an impact zone dwarfing that of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula ...

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2005/04/20 Band of Rubble - This artist´s animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun. Evidence for this possible belt was discovered by NASA´s Spitzer Space Telescope when it spotted
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updated 23 Mar 2015; published 23 Mar 2015
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World's Largest Known Asteroid Impact Found In Australia
updated 24 Mar 2015; published 24 Mar 2015
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'Largest ever asteroid impact' found in Australia
updated 24 Mar 2015; published 24 Mar 2015
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'Largest ever asteroid impact' found in Australia : BREAKING NEWS
updated 24 Mar 2015; published 24 Mar 2015
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Ancient Doomsday Asteroid Impact Found in Australia
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Australia Is Home To Third Largest Asteroid Impact Crater - The Daily Orbit
updated 24 Mar 2015; published 24 Mar 2015
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'Largest ever asteroid impact' found in Australia
WHO denies politics swayed Ebola emergency declaration
Full Article The Times of India
24 Mar 2015

LONDON: The World Health Organization has denied that politics swayed the decision to declare an international emergency over the spread of the Ebola virus last year, despite evidence senior staffers repeatedly discussed the diplomatic and economic fallout of such a move. A year after WHO declared that Ebola had been found in Guinea, the agency is...

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Burial teams of volunteers in Guinea, wearing full personal protective equipment and working in teams of seven, disinfect themselves after carrying the body of a 40 year-old woman who died from the Ebola virus and will be transported from the MSF Treatment Center at Donka Hospital to the Conakry Cemetery for a safe burial, Guinea, 17 January, 2015.
photo: UN / Martine Perret

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Jodi Arias won't be sentenced to death after jury deadlocks
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2 Additional Air Strikes Launched By The United States In Iraq.
updated 24 Nov 2014; published 24 Nov 2014
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RED ALERT: NORAD F-16 DRILLS OVER WASHINGTON,D.C. MONDAY/TUESDAY
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ALERT NEWS Air Farce One Morales skyjacking sparks anger in South America
updated 13 Dec 2014; published 13 Dec 2014
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CBN Concentrates on Sand Mafia | Abrupt Checking Of Sand Quarries : TV5 News
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani opens US visit with speech honouring sacrifices made by American soldiers
Full Article The Independent
23 Mar 2015

Amidst signs that Washington is poised to adjust the pace of its disengagement from Afghanistan, President Ashraf Ghani opened an official visit to the United States today by expressing fulsome thanks for the sacrifices made by US soldiers in more than a decade of war in his country. “What I want to state on behalf of the Afghan people is that each...

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File - Spc. Tyler Winowiecki, an infantryman with Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, cleans the dust off his M-4 carbine during Operation Buffalo Thunder II in the district of Shorabak, Afghanistan, June 28, 2012.
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani pays tribute to UK war dead
updated 13 Mar 2015; published 13 Mar 2015
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Afghan president honours UK soldiers for 'ultimate sacrifice'
updated 13 Mar 2015; published 13 Mar 2015
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Afghan president honours UK soldiers for 'ultimate sacrifice'
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bbc news-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani pays tribute to UK war dead
updated 13 Mar 2015; published 13 Mar 2015
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BBC News - The Queen attends Afghanistan memorial service at St Paul's
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Afghan Leader Thanks U.S. Troops as Obama Expected to Slow Pullout

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Tony Blair joins a strange and exclusive club of political leaders whose careers have been ...
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The Independent
Tony Blair stepping down as a Middle East peace envoy after eight years was greeted almost everywhere with a mixture of harsh criticism, derision and relief. He had reportedly long...
Yuan, Renminbi, and China
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Palm Beach Post
You may have noticed that the Chinese currency is sometimes called the yuan and sometimes called the renminbi. Which one is correct? Both! Renminbi is the...
Two months after attack, splits at Charlie Hebdo over money
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Two months after the jihadist attack in which staff at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo were murdered, a split has emerged in the newsroom over the nearly 30 million euros...

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Angelina Jolie has ovaries, fallopian tubes removed to cut cancer risk
Angelina Jolie arrives at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday Jan. 29, 2012 in Los Angeles.
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CNN
(CNN)Two years after she underwent a double mastectomy to cut her cancer risk, actress and U.S. envoy Angelina Jolie has had surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes for the same reason, she wrote in the New York Times Tuesday. Jolie, 39,...
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UN nuclear agency regrets slow pace of Iran cooperation
File - Yukiya Amano, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), holds a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, on the situation in Japan where a nuclear power plant, Fukushima Daiichi, has been in crisis since being struck by a severe tsunami on 11 March
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The Siasat Daily
Washington , March 23: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency voiced regret that little progress had been made in recent months on Iranian cooperation over any possible military dimension of its nuclear programme. "It is true that we have...
photo: UN / Mark Garten
Utah to Use Firing Squads if Lethal Drugs Unavailable
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert takes part in the National Governors Association Health and Human Services Committee meeting in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010.
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Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY— Utah became the only state to allow firing squads for executions when Gov. Gary Herbert signed a law Monday approving the method for use when no lethal injection drugs are available, even though he has called it...
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Ted Cruz is first to confirm bid for US prez race
Ted Cruz speaking to Tea Party Express supporters at a rally in Austin, Texas. USA
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The Times of India
WASHINGTON: And they're off. Texas Republican senator Ted Cruz became the first candidate to announce that he will run for president in 2016 in what is expected to be a crowded field that will be winnowed down to two after some 15 months of bruising...
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President Dilma Rousseff on rack in Brazil
Brazil's President-elect Dilma Rousseff, of the Workers Party, gestures to supporters as she arrives to give her victory speech after winning the election runoff in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday Oct. 31, 2010.
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The Irish Times
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff is facing a perfect storm. Political and economic crises feed off each other. Up to a million on the streets demand her resignation. Oil prices fall, the real plummets in a declining oil-dependent stagnant economy,...
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Central African Republic in ‘urgent need’ of agricultural assistance, warns UN agency
Central African Republic in ‘urgent need’ of agricultural assistance, warns UN agency
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United Nations
Print 23 March 2015 – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched an urgent appeal to help provide farmers in the Central African Republic (CAR) with seeds and tools for the country’s upcoming planting season, warning...
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South Sudan rebels free 250 child soldiers: UN
South Sudan rebels free 250 child soldiers: UN
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The Times of India
GENEVA: A South Sudanese rebel group has freed 250 child soldiers — including a girl as young as nine, the UN children's agency said on Sunday, but warned that thousands were still being forced to fight. The rebel Cobra Faction is also set to release...
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