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She was young, blond, and pretty – married in 2005. Corporal Sarah Bryant was a highly educated Pashtu-speaking member of the British Intelligence Corps. The female soldier was part of a team working with Afghan police 10 miles east of Lashkar Gar....
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The average marrying age of Yemeni females is 12 to 13. They are pulled out of school, end up illiterate, forced to have children before their bodies are ready, and suffer serious health problems.
The sworn virgin was a social necessity in an agrarian region plagued by war and death. If the family patriarch died with no male heirs, unmarried women in the family make take an oath of virginity and be the male head of the family.
Police have nabbed nearly 70 girls under the age of 18 since 2005. Most of them were released to foster or group homes. Those are just the official figures. Investigators think there are many more child prostitutes out there.
To summarize this article, I dared to enumerate the scenes that will most possibly play out in the world drama that is Zimbabwe today. After the voting day of the single-candidate sham of an election, these reality and possibilities are of the here and...
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Perhaps nothing trips us up so much as what it means for something to be simple or complex. We mistake immensity for complexity and subtlety for simplicity.
Drug traffickers in China’s far west are smuggling heroin into the country woven into carpets imported from Afghanistan and Pakistan. The new smuggling method was making detection harder as equipment used by customs’ officers was not up to...
An 11-year-old Romanian girl who is 21 weeks pregnant after being raped by an uncle will be able to have an abortion, even though it is forbidden by law. A government committee said the procedure should go ahead due to the exceptional circumstances of...
The Queen and the Royal Family have cost the taxpayer £40m during the last financial year - up £2m on the previous 12 months, official accounts show. The total is equivalent to 66p per person in the UK - an increase of 4p.
As Bill Gates finally bows out of Microsoft to pursue his charity interests, we look at some of the hits and misses of the software company he founded.
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