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Mar 01, 2016Boston youth rally against unemployment, incarceration
BOSTON — Amid the crowd of hundreds of teenagers armed with megaphones and homemade signs, a line of...
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Before US troops arrived in Afghanistan in 2001, the harsh rule of the Taliban forbade girls' education. Today...
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DEH’SUBZ, Afghanistan — The seven girls graduating from the school here on the outskirts of Kabul this fall...
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