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PAKISTAN: New Rehab Plan Brings Hope for War-Disabled
The prolonged United States-led war against terrorism has left a large number of people disabled in Pakistan, compelling the government to institute a rehabilitation plan that will include imparting vocational skills.
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INDIA: Male Activists Enhance Pre and Postnatal Care
The primitive Juang tribe in remote Nola village on Chandragiri hill experienced its first three institutional childbirths only a month ago.
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HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: HIV-Related Deaths Slow Economy
If there was no HIV/AIDS, South Africa would have 4.4 million more people than
today, the size of a major city. This significant slow-down in population growth
is causing a slow down in economic growth and resulting in social ills,
researchers warn.
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PAKISTAN: Violence, Death Stalk Child Domestic Help
"He was a happy child, my younger brother," Mohammad Ramzan, 18, reminisced, his voice steeped in sadness.
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AFGHANISTAN: 38 Attacks a Day Take Their Toll
A red flare lights up the moonless night at a remote military outpost in
southern Kandahar, a signal to land for the incoming helicopter. Bordering
Pakistan, this desolate strip of desert is deadly, especially during peak
‘fighting season' every summer between NATO-ISAF military forces and the
Taliban.
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SRI LANKA: Poorest Still Go Hungry
Experts agree that Sri Lanka's free pre and postnatal clinics across the island nation have helped bring infant mortality down to 15 per 1,000 live births and the under-five mortality rate to 21 per 1,000 live births.
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ARGENTINA: In Famatina, Water Is Worth Far More Than Gold
Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La
Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project
in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid
area's sole source of drinking water.
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SOUTH SUDAN: Still Counting the Dead in Inter-Ethnic Conflict
In the ward of a partially destroyed clinic, Mangiro (who did not give his last
name) sat on a bed next to his wounded nine-year-old daughter, Ngathin.
The little girl is fortunate, she survived the recent inter-ethnic clashes in Pibor
county that killed her mother and sisters.
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JAPAN: Tsunami Brings Sea Change to Tohoku
Yumi Goto, 60, lives with her husband in a temporary shelter on a windy hill
that overlooks vast stretches of tsunami-devastated seacoast where her home
was once located.
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CZECH REPUBLIC: Castration for Sex Offenders Triumphs
The Czech government has defied calls from international human rights groups
to stop the "degrading" practice of surgically castrating sex offenders.
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INDIA: Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Underbelly
Even a year after Rani, a three-year-old tribal girl in the backward Wayanad
district of southern Kerala state, was treated in a government hospital for
gastroenteritis she remains grossly underweight and suffers from frequent
bouts of diarrhoea.
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GERMANY: While Some Waste, Others Feast
Shortly before midnight last Saturday, Alexander, a 24-year-old law student,
stepped out of his small apartment in Hamburg and set off for a jaunt
around the local supermarkets to pilfer their garbage containers.
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EUROPE: Unrest Spreads Eastwards
Protests in Hungary and Romania are the first signs of anti-systemic
mobilisation in the Eastern half of the continent. While protests in both
countries indicate dissatisfaction with their governments' authoritarian turn,
their origins differ, as does the European Union's reaction to them.
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PAKISTAN: Taliban Bombs Get Deadlier
In their efforts to kill and injure more people as part of a terror campaign in
northern Pakistan, the Taliban militia have resorted to lacing bombs with toxic
chemicals that leave survivors with complicated wounds.
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BALKANS: The Dark Side of Serbia's Oil Shale Fairy Tale
According to an old Serbian fairy tale, God tells a poor man who enters a gold
mine that no matter what he chooses to do inside, he'll be sorry when he leaves.
If he takes some gold, he'll be sorry for not taking more; if he doesn't, he'll be
sorry for not taking any at all.
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Half of All Abortions Now Unsafe, Study Finds
The proportion of abortions deemed unsafe rose from 44 percent
in 1995 to almost half (49 percent) in 2008, according to a
new study released Thursday.
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JAPAN: Pushing Nuclear Exports After Fukushima
Japan plans to boost civilian nuclear exports even as it tries to appease its population angered at radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, crippled by an earthquake and tsunami on Mar. 11, last year.
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HAITI: Displaced Mark a Tragedy That Could Have Been Yesterday
For two years now, since her husband was one of the estimated
230,000 Haitians killed in the massive earthquake of Jan. 12,
2010 and she and her three children became homeless, little
has changed for Dieulia St. Juste.
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EL SALVADOR: Pesticides Fill Graveyards in Rural Villages
Sitting in the shade under a tree at a careful distance, Francisco Sosa watches his son prepare the land for planting by spraying the weeds with an herbicide from a tank carried on his back.
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CAMEROON: Stepping Naturally Away from Plastic
Maya Stella, a restaurant manager in the capital of Cameroon, no longer uses
plastic to wrap the corn-fufu that she sells to her customers. She now uses
banana or plantain leaves instead, because these are "natural and it is our
African culture to use leaves in wrapping food."
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