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Senegal's street-begging children show limits of 'apptivism'
News, AFP, Published on 10/05/2016
» Mamadou is a child beggar wandering the streets of Dakar, perilously darting in and out of traffic as he tries to gather enough money for his Islamic teacher to feed him.
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GM expands Chevrolet Bolt EV recall, adding $1bn in costs
AFP, Published on 21/08/2021
» NEW YORK - General Motors expanded a recall of its Chevrolet Bolt on Friday, announcing plans to repair thousands more of the electric autos in a move that will add $1 billion in costs.
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Woman governor in a man's world
News, AFP, Published on 02/08/2016
» Surrounded by male advisers and condescending "mansplainers", Masooma Muradi holds her own against a deep underswell of sexism in a society unaccustomed to women exercising authority.
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Volunteers give kiss of life
News, AFP, Published on 29/08/2016
» "Look at me, stay with us," the paramedics shout as a barely conscious motorcyclist is bundled into a volunteer ambulance in the Laotian capital Vientiane, where rampant drink driving brings nightly carnage to the roads.
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Refugees in Indonesia tackle life in limbo through schooling
News, AFP, Published on 20/06/2016
» Mahboob Jafari had barely seen the inside of a classroom, let alone taught in one, before he arrived in Indonesia as a refugee fleeing persecution in Afghanistan.
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Yezidi survivor demands genocide trial for jihadist leaders
News, AFP, Published on 29/06/2016
» Nadia Murad, a slight, soft spoken Yezidi woman from Iraq, endured a three-month nightmare as a sex slave of the Islamic State (IS) group.
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Wild West-style gun bazaar feels pinch as law 'n' order moves in
News, AFP, Published on 29/07/2016
» Gunfire echoes through a dusty northwest tribal town, the soundtrack to Pakistan's biggest arms black market, where Kalashnikovs welded from scrap metal are cheaper than smartphones and sold on an industrial scale.
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Refugee guides a hit at Berlin museums
News, AFP, Published on 11/05/2016
» Mohamed Al-Subeeh was a senior restorer at Syria's best-known mosaic museum, but as war swept deeper into his province, destroying artefacts and threatening his and his family's lives, he was forced to flee.
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Clinton vs Trump: Battle of the New Yorkers
News, AFP, Published on 13/06/2016
» Perhaps the only guarantee in Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's epic fight for the White House is that Americans will get their first New Yorker president since World War II.
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Female Sherpas blazing trail for gender
News, AFP, Published on 19/04/2016
» When a deadly avalanche hit Mount Everest a year ago, Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita, one of the few Nepali women with expertise in climbing the world's highest peaks, headed straight there to help.
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