By Jean MacKenzie In December 2001, the US-led offensive forced the Taliban to scatter over the mountains into...
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A success story in Haiti: Teach a man to fish
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Haitian diaspora reaches back home
by Mildrade Cherfils BOSTON — After returning from her annual trip to Haiti last July, Ketlye Theodore stood...
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by Donovan Webster PORT-AU-PRINCE — TO SEE WHERE the enormous sums of humanitarian aid directed to Haiti after...
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Amid Haiti’s ruins, the healing power of art
by Donovan Webster PORT-AU-PRINCE — Inside Haiti’s environment of horrendous need, mixed types of pain, threat, and poverty —...
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Against all odds: ‘Virginity test’ victim awaits her verdict
By Deena Adel CAIRO — Samira Ibrahim, who pursued legal action against the Egyptian military for allegedly forcing her...
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Sweden: Transgender actress mourns her “forcible sterilization”
By Ann Tornkvist STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Aleksa Lundberg remembers being 4 years old and standing by the kindergarten’s...
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Early marriage precludes education for young Nepalis
By Hanna Ingber KATHMANDU, Nepal — When Shyam Balami was a teenager, his aging parents decided they needed...
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Child marriages burden young Nepalis
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