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- ANURADHA NAGARAJ
Chennai, India
Thomson Reuters Foundation
An Indian state with some of the country's highest levels of migration driven by poverty is doubling the amount of paid work it gives some of its poorest citizens, in a bid to curb debt bondage, a common form of slavery.
Authorities in
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- CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ
Vatican City
RNS
Pope Francis prayed for the strength to stand up against coercion and opposition and said during his weekly general audience that the “great Christian answer” is to “obey God before men".
“We ask the Holy Spirit for the strength to not be afraid of
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- WILLIAM JAMES AND KATE HOLTON
London
Reuters
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will suspend Britain's parliament for more than a month before Brexit, enraging opponents and raising the stakes in the country's most serious political crisis in decades.
Cheered on by US President Donald Trump, Johnson launched his boldest move yet to take the
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- YONAT SHIMRON
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- ANASTASIA MOLONEY
Bogota, Colombia
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Central America is grappling with its worst outbreak of dengue fever in decades - and scientists say the disease is likely to spread and become more frequent in the future due to climate change.
Worst hit is Honduras where about 109 deaths from
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- KATIE PAUL
San Francisco, US
Reuters
A group of philanthropies working with Facebook Inc to study the social network's impact on democracy threatened on Tuesday to quit, saying the company had failed to make data available to researchers as pledged.
The funders said in a statement that Facebook had granted
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- RINA SAEED KHAN
Islamabad, Pakistan
Thomson Reuters Foundation
When inspectors showed up to investigate reports that a popular Islamabad take-out restaurant was flaunting the city's new plastic bag ban last week, the response was less than contrite.
Video footage – which quickly appeared on social media – showed one of the
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- NAIMUL KARIM
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Bangladesh's top court has ruled that women need no longer declare if they are virgins on marriage certificates after a five-year legal battle by women's rights groups trying to protect women's privacy and potential humiliation.
Marriage laws in the Muslim-majority country in
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- ALEXANDRA RADU
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- ADELA SULIMAN
Stockholm, Sweden
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Water scarcity is one factor driving millions of people from their homes each year but is often not the only reason why they move, researchers told an international conference on Tuesday.
In most cases, other economic and social problems like conflict, corruption or
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- LISANDRA PARAGUASSU and GABRIEL STARGARDTER
Brasilia/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Reuters
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday he wants French President Emmanuel Macron to withdraw the "insults" made against him before he considers accepting a $US20 million offer from the G7 nations to help fight forest fires in the Amazon.
The two
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- FELIX TAM AND CLARE JIM
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Hong Kong
Reuters
Violence in Hong Kong's anti-government protests is becoming more serious but the government is confident it can handle the crisis itself, the city's embattled leader said on Tuesday.
Carrie Lam was speaking in public for the first time since demonstrations escalated on Sunday,
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Jos , Nigeria
Morning Star News
Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed a Pentecostal pastor and abducted a Baptist pastor in a spate of kidnappings this month in Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said.
“The herdsmen, about 20 of them, shot into our house and broke the doors of the house,” said
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- SONIA ELKS
London
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Bosses who do not believe sexism holds back women's careers are more likely to give jobs to men, a study based on recruitment for top French science research posts found on Monday.
The results suggested that training hiring managers about sexist discrimination in the
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- ADELA SULIMAN
Stockholm, Sweden
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Putting on a pair of jeans or drinking a beer has a cost beyond the pricetag, with billions of tonnes of water used globally each year to manufacture them and other consumer goods, companies said at an international water conference on Monday.
But
