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It has been 50 years since unarmed marchers from Selma, Alabama set out in defiance of repression in 1965, to demonstrate African-Americans’ constitutional rights, and state troopers attacked them. When Alabama’s Governor refused to protect ...
Although the empowerment of women has been among the most significant achievements of the past century, the international community must “push further” in its struggle to ensure the right to education for all girls, the ...
Italian police in riot gear forcibly removed a few dozen African migrants on Tuesday who had been camping out for days at Italy’s Mediterranean border with France in hopes of going further north. Some of ...
Thousands of Nicaraguans have staged a protest rally in a central city to voice their anger at a government decision to give the go-ahead to the controversial construction of a canal through their lands. On ...
Six Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 14 wounded in separatist eastern territory in the past 24 hours, despite a four-month-old ceasefire deal, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday. The truce brokered by the leaders ...
Controversy has erupted over the racial identity of an NAACP leader in Washington state, after her parents told media outlets that their daughter is white and has been pretending to be black for years. Rachel ...
A bomb explosion has rocked an area near the parliament building in the Afghan capital, Kabul, leaving at least three soldiers wounded. The blast occurred when a magnetic bomb attached to a military vehicle exploded ...
The U.N. refugee agency is estimating that over 3,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants — or even more — could still be adrift in the Andaman Sea. The exact numbers are not known, but the U.N. ...
Members of a UN peacekeeping mission engaged in “transactional sex” with more than 225 Haitian women, according to a new report, which suggests that sexual exploitation remains significantly under-reported in such missions. The draft by ...
More than three million children living in France, or one in five, live below the poverty line, according to a new report by UNICEF published on Tuesday. The UN agency devoted to children’s rights revealed ...
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