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Suffer the little children. It is ever the way, from Rwanda to Gaza
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Genocide

Suffer the little children. It is ever the way, from Rwanda to Gaza

They are the innocents, and it is never their fight. But it is the children of conflict who always suffer the most.

  • by Tony Wright

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Dodging machetes and crossing sandstorms, ‘Hardest Geezer’ runs length of Africa

Dodging machetes and crossing sandstorms, ‘Hardest Geezer’ runs length of Africa

Russ Cook crossed 16 countries over the equivalent of 385 marathons – more than 16,300 kilometres – surviving machete-wielding villagers, desert sandstorms and crippling bouts of food poisoning.

  • by Max Stephens
Girl, 8, sole survivor as 45 killed after bus plunges down ravine in South Africa
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Tragedy

Girl, 8, sole survivor as 45 killed after bus plunges down ravine in South Africa

The passenger bus was transporting Easter worshippers from Botswana, a landlocked country in Southern Africa, to Moria, a town in Limpopo.

  • by Gerald Imray
India’s navy takes control of ship hijacked by Somali pirates

India’s navy takes control of ship hijacked by Somali pirates

The development came after men on the bulk carrier fired at an Indian warship in international waters on Friday.