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(CNN)A group of Kenyan teenagers have created an app called i-Cut to help girls affected by Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).The students, Stacy Owino, Cynthia Otieno, Purity Achieng, Mascrine
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Middle East
BEIRUT: More than 360,000 people have been killed across war-ravaged Syria in seven years, a monitoring group said Thursday, in a new toll for the brutal conflict.It came
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Middle East
The number of immigrant "family units" apprehended while attempting to enter the US through its southern border soared to 12,774 in August, up from roughly 9,247 in July,
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Middle East
President Vladimir Putin promised to strengthen Russia's army and supply it with new generation weapons, as he travelled to watch the country's biggest war games since the fall
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Middle East
A lawyer for former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was charged with receiving US$2.3m in ill-gotten wealth, as police announced the investigation of more than 50 individuals suspected
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World
David Solomon, the part-time DJ and future CEO, needs to change the tune at Goldman Sachs. The legendary investment bank is in a bit of a slump. Not
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World
When John Taylor starts remembering the years leading up to the financial crisis, his fury wells up all over again. As president of the nonprofit National Community Reinvestment
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World
A Chinese app that does just about everything has found strong demand for its shares, bucking the trend of recent tech IPOs. Meituan Dianping raised $4.2 billion from
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Middle East
GENEVA: UN officials have notified Russia, Turkey and the US of the GPS coordinates of 235 schools, hospitals and other civilian sites in the Syrian province of Idlib,
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Middle East
Rival Iraqi factions make coalition deal and end Al-Abadi’s prime minister hopes BAGHDAD: Pro-Iran parties in Iraq reached a deal on Thursday to join a parliamentary coalition overseen
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Middle East
BEIJING: Any chemical weapons attack on Syria’s last opposition stronghold would lead to “consequences” for the regime in Damascus, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned in Beijing
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Middle East
Even as the European Parliament moves to punish Hungary for its violation of EU’s core values, a defiant Hungarian government has said its stand on George Soros-funded Central
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Middle East
The UN Security Council has extended the mandate for the UNSMIL mission in Libya by another year, until September 15, 2019, but did not endorse a December 10
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Middle East
Samut Sakhon, Thailand - In 2013, Chairat Ratchapaksi found a job in commercial fishing to support his family. The 40-year-old from Thailand's central Phetchaburi province went to see
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World
(CNN)Two sisters have died in Somalia from complications that arose after undergoing female genital mutilation, according to Hawa Aden Mohamed, who campaigns against the procedure.Ten-year-old Aasiyo Abdi Warsame
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World
London (CNN)Some schoolgirls in the United Kingdom have been pressured by their peers into undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM), according to FGM survivor and campaigner Leyla Hussein, Britain's
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World
(CNN)Somalia will prosecute a female genital mutilation (FGM) case for the first time in the country after a 10-year-old girl died from the procedure last week.Deeqa Dahir Nuur
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Middle East
GENEVA: The UN said that the situation in Gaza was “catastrophic” after 11 years of “economic siege” and warned that Washington’s decision to halt assistance to Palestinian refugees
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Middle East
ISTANBUL: A Russian military aircraft thunders into the sky at 4.47 p.m. from Russia’s air base at Hmeimim in western Syria, veering to the east. An observer takes
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Middle East
ISTANBUL: A Russian military aircraft thunders into the sky at 4.47 p.m. from Russia’s air base at Hmeimim in western Syria, veering to the east. An observer takes
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Middle East
This interview took place on September 10 at Basmanny Court in Moscow and September 11 at a cafe nearby the courthouse. Verzilov fell ill late on September 11.
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Middle East
Venezuela's economy has been rapidly deteriorating for years, driving a growing number of Venezuelans into poverty and creating scarcities of basic food items and medicine. Since President
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Middle East
The outer reaches of Hurricane Florence began lashing coastal North Carolina with heavy winds and flooded roads on Thursday ahead of an expected landfall that will bring walls
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Middle East
France acknowledged for the first time it was responsible for systematic torture during the Algerian war of independence in the mid-1950s. President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that Maurice Audin,
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Middle East
Riyadh-based carrier Flynas has announced plans to recruit Saudi women to work as co-pilots and flight attendants for the first time. Women are not legally barred from working
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Middle East
Japan is proposing an end to a 33-year-old ban on commercial whaling, saying it is time because most whale species have rebounded from being endangered at the time
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World
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Sharon Okpoe has lived her entire 17 years in Makoko—known as the world's largest "floating slum"—built on a lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria.Rickety shacks stand on stilts
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