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Arab child labor study to help tackle ‘exploitation’
DUBAI: The centuries-old sectarian Sunni-Shiite divide is arguably so entrenched that many — even Muslims — would be hard-placed to pinpoint the source of the largest cultural dispute in the history of Islam. As
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How Iran fueled Islam’s Sunni-Shiite divide
DUBAI: The centuries-old sectarian Sunni-Shiite divide is arguably so entrenched that many — even Muslims — would be hard-placed to pinpoint the source of the largest cultural dispute in the history of Islam. As
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Baby of ISIL teen Shamima Begum has died: SDF
The baby son of a British teenager stripped of her citizenship for joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) armed group in Syria has died, according to a spokesman
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Venezuela blackout: ‘With the electricity out, I can’t get my chemo’
Caracas - I arrived to Venezuela on Thursday just a few hours after a massive power cut left most of the country in complete darkness. At the airport, long lines of passengers waited as immigration
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Guatemalan women protest against decades of state violence
Guatemala City - Marcia Mendez carried a photograph of her older sister Luz Hayde around with her all day. For Mendez and many others in Guatemala, Friday marked much more than International Women's Day. "My
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Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify on Wikileaks
Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who served seven years in prison for leaking one of the largest troves of classified documents in US history, has been sent to jail for refusing to testify
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Erik Prince acknowledges 2016 Trump Tower meeting for first time
Erik Prince, founder of the private American security company Blackwater, has admitted to meeting with members of the Trump campaign in August 2016 after, according to a public transcript, apparently failing to disclose the
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Defeated Daesh militants, women still defiant
KASSERINE/TUNISIA: Souad Gharsalli lives in a rented flat in the center of Kasserine, in western Tunisia, baking and selling artisanal bread to make money. But she should be growing olive trees for a living,
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Tunisia divided over equal inheritance for women
KASSERINE/TUNISIA: Souad Gharsalli lives in a rented flat in the center of Kasserine, in western Tunisia, baking and selling artisanal bread to make money. But she should be growing olive trees for a living,
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Car bomb blast kills 2 in Iraq’s Mosul
CAIRO: The chairman of the Arab Council for Childhood and Development (ACCD), Saudi Prince Abdul Aziz bin Talal, has praised the role of the council in monitoring and dealing with child labor in Arab


