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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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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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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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'Instant paradise': An Afghan child bomber's sad journey
News, AFP, Published on 21/04/2016
» At first glance, Mohibullah looks an ordinary Afghan teenager, wide-eyed with a tender smile, a little peach fuzz and a boyish dream of becoming a kick boxer. But this 15-year-old is languishing in prison, jailed after the Taliban preyed on him to become a suicide bomber.
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Refugee fights his way into Olympics and new life in Brazil
News, AFP, Published on 27/04/2016
» Ferocity may sound like a good thing in martial arts, but when Popole Misenga started training for his Olympic judo team he was, well, too ferocious -- "brutal," one coach says.
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Troubled history at Khmer Rouge stronghold
News, AFP, Published on 04/05/2016
» Standing next to cages that once housed political prisoners, former Khmer Rouge foot soldier Tho Lon gets a surprisingly sympathetic hearing from a clutch of students, despite his work for a regime that wiped out a quarter of Cambodia's population.
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Painful letters from the past for 'White Terror' oppression families
News, AFP, Published on 03/05/2016
» Growing up in Taiwan under martial law, Hsu Hsu-mei knew almost nothing about her father, only that he was executed for being a "thought criminal".
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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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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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Post-election changes and what we can expect next
News, AFP, Published on 02/03/2016
» Elections in Iran have led to a reshaping of political forces in the Islamic republic and benefited President Hassan Rouhani following a nuclear deal with world powers last summer.
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