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Sport
Watch: The basketball coach empowering India’s youth through the sport
Pradyut Voleti is transforming the lives of young people through his non-profit basketball organisation. ADVERTISEMENT Basketball facilities are scarce in…
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Six children and pregnant woman among 12 dead as boat sinks in English channel | BBC News
At least 12 people have drowned after a boat carrying migrants sank off the French coast in the English Channel.…
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News
Members of the Kennedy family gather for funeral of Ethel Kennedy
CENTERVILLE, Mass. — Members of the Kennedy family gathered Monday for the funeral of Ethel Kennedy, the wife of the…
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Asia
Commentary: I was adopted from China. That’s my lifelong identity
MY STORY IS ONLY ONE AMONG MANY More than 160,000 children from China have been adopted by families across the…
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Asia
Commentary: Too many knew, too few acted in GISB child abuse scandal in Malaysia
LACK OF GOVERNANCE The children found in the GISB network resided in welfare homes operating as orphanages, placing them in…
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News
Commentary: When everything is viewed from the lens of national security in China, even adoption isn’t safe
ESCALATING CHINA-US TENSIONS To the extent that the Russian case illuminates the political underpinnings of programme termination, a more plausible…
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United Kingdom
UK think tank calls for ‘class ceiling’ to be broken in the arts
UK think tank the Fabian Society calls for a “universal library card” and a “culture pass” for children in the…
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News
Child trapped between boulders for 9 hours rescued by firefighters in New Hampshire
WINDSOR, N.H. — Rescuers came to the aid of a child who became wedged between two boulders and was trapped…
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News
This city is hailed as a vaccination success. Can it be sustained?
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — On his first day of school at Newcomer Academy, Maikel Tejeda was whisked to the school library.…
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WHO grants first mpox vaccine approval to ramp up response to disease
The World Health Organization says it has granted its first authorization for use of a vaccine against mpox in adults,…
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