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Afghan Girls And Women Cling To Glitchy, Lonesome Online Learning

Sequestered at home in a remote Afghan town, 18-year-old Shekiba often roams the house hunting for the patchy internet signal that is her last link to an education.

International Business Times

In Sierra Leone, climate change worsens human trafficking of the poor

Sierra Leone’s poorest communities have long been prey to human traffickers. Climate change is making things worse.

Al Jazeera

As more Palestinians with foreign citizenship leave Gaza, some families are left in the lurch

Dozens of Palestinians with foreign passports crossed through the war-torn Gaza Strip’s only exit for the second straight day, escaping the suffocating siege into the empty Egyptian desert

The Independent UK

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BBC Race Across the World winners crowned as 51-day journey comes to an end

Who won BBC Race Across the World? Welsh contestant Cathie and best friend Tricia crowned winners of 2023 series

Wales Online

Sudanese obstetrician delivers dozens of babies amid clashes

Huwaida al-Hassan and her daughters are among the medical staff tending to pregnant women amid Sudan’s clashes.

Al Jazeera

Two decades after the Iraq invasion: what happened to the promise of education for girls?

Twenty years ago Iraqi women and girls were promised a new future of liberation and education by former US president Bush. The reality is different

The Guardian - UK

Taliban bans contraception calling use a ‘western conspiracy’

Reports that fighters have threatened those issuing birth control medicines come as Afghan midwives and activists warn of impact on women’s health and rights

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A year in, the Taliban escalates its war against girls' education in Afghanistan

BAMIAN, Afghanistan — When Zahra Wafa thinks about what it took to put her daughters through school, her face hardens.

Los Angeles Times

Banned from education, 'idle' Afghan girls are married off

Kandahar (Afghanistan) (AFP) - Thirteen-year-old Zainab should have been shopping for a new school uniform this autumn but, with no prospect of girls' schools reopening in Afghanistan, she was instead forced to pick out a wedding dress.

AFP

For some Gaza children, another round of violence reopens trauma

When Israeli missiles started landing in Gaza in early August, shattering glass and collapsing buildings, Jouman Abdu put on headphones, covered her eyes with a blindfold and stretched on the couch.

Reuters

Mystery of murder in the Alps as expert claims killer was loner in his 30s

Saad al-Hilli, 50, his wife, Iqbal, 47, and his mother-in-law, Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, were all killed in their BMW car in September 2012 in a case that has baffled detectives in France

Daily Mirror

Secret schools enable Afghanistan's teen girls to skirt Taliban's education ban

The official rule: no secondary school for girls. But behind a veil of secrecy, women are opening small schools so that at least some of these teenagers are able to continue learning.

WEKU

Murder in the Alps: Who killed the al-Hilli family?

A new documentary series on Channel 4 delves deeper into the Annecy shootings case

Wales Online

Murder In The Alps: The horrific fatal shootings of a British couple and how their two young children escaped death

The Annecy shootings are the subject of a new Channel 4 documentary

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Romeo and Duet viewers urge Oti Mabuse to return to Strictly and slam 'disgusting' show

Viewers tuning into the latest episode of Romeo and Duet on Saturday night were not impressed and called for professional dancer Oti Mabuse to head back to the Strictly dance floor

The Independent UK

Grenfell: Londoner waited ‘weeks’ for deaths of six relatives to be confirmed

Hisam Choucair lost his mother, sister, brother-in-law, and three nieces in the Grenfell Tower fire.

The Independent UK

Taliban raised on war bring a heavy hand to security role

The Taliban are trying to keep discipline over thousands of young fighters who bring heavy-handed methods of war into their new roles as security forces in Afghanistan

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