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Suspected pedophile arrested after abusing 11 kids

A 55-year-old man was arrested in south Lebanon after he was accused of sexually assaulting 11 minors, the Internal Security Forces announced Friday. The suspect, identified as M.Z...

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Generation homeless: Trying to help Egypt’s street kids

Barefoot and wearing shabby clothes, the 2-year-old wanders through the dirty streets of Cairo alongside her mother, who has also spent all her life without a home of her own. For...

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‘Kill a baby, get a baby,’ sorcerer tells accomplice before sacrificing infant girl in India

Two men have been arrested after murdering a 6-month-old girl in a black magic sacrifice in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. The horrific ceremony was intended to appease a...

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TVs in children's bedrooms linked to increase in child obesity, study finds

In news that will come as a surprise to people nowhere, a new study has suggested that kids who have a gogglebox in their bedroom are more likely to be overweight than those who do...

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War, marriage and hunger: one in four childhoods cut short

 In a school in Senegal, 15-year-old Khadidiatou strives to balance her studies with her roles as a mother and a wife. In a clinic in Mali, 10-month-old Mamadou is severely...

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Clusters of teen births trigger public health questions

Though the number of American teenagers having babies has dropped over the past half century, a new study finds regional clusters with strikingly high teen birth rates. The clusters...

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Haitian women press for recognition from U.N. peacekeeper fathers

For Roseleine Duperval, the United Nations mission to stabilize Haiti will always remind her of one thing - her 8-year-old daughter, who she says was fathered by a Uruguayan...

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Kidnapped for marriage: Mali pupils join forces to save classmates

When Fatmata was kidnapped from a market in Mali last year, she was scared for her life. When the Malian schoolgirl realized she would be forced to marry her captor, she feared for...

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Doctors debate safety of older babies sharing parents’ bedroom

Babies may not get as much sleep in their parents’ bedrooms as they do in a room of their own, and they may also be more likely to go to bed in conditions associated with an...

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More African girls going to school, yet poorest miss out: experts

 More girls are completing secondary school across sub-Saharan Africa as attitudes change and state spending rises, but some of the most marginalized girls - like those married...

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From conflict to child marriage, 700 million children robbed of childhood

One in four of the world's children - at least 700 million - have had their childhood cut short by factors ranging from illness and conflict to child marriage and being out of...

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Child brides are on the rise in India's towns and cities: report

An increasing number of underage girls in India's towns and cities are being married off, a study has revealed, challenging long-held assumptions that child marriage in the country...

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Rotating wooden drum aims to help child development

A Polish musician has created an unusual interactive instrument - a larger-than life music box bristling with xylophones and drums - that he says can help educate children and aid...

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Guatemala rescues 22 children from forced labor: police

Guatemalan police have rescued 22 children - some working 16-hour days making corn tortillas - as part of a crackdown on widespread child labor in the Central American nation,...

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Pregnancy after breast cancer doesn't raise recurrence risk-study

Women who have had breast cancer often forego pregnancy for fear that it will increase the chances of their cancer coming back. But a study of more than 1,200 women, presented on...

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