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A nine-year-old disabled boy in Malawi has shown his community that being born with physical challenges does not prevent you from doing many things
Beginning in October 2018, Beijing acknowledged the existence of the camps, but described them as voluntary “vocational centers,” despite reporting by RFA’s Uyghur Service which has found that detainees are mostly held against their will in poor conditions, where they are forced to endure inhumane treatment and political indoctrination
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed Hungary’s digital divide, with many children in poorer rural areas receiving little teaching or support during recent months.
NYC has always attracted creative people – those who are happy to wait tables in the evening as long as it pays the bills, only to run to auditions and have time for their art during the day. But the coronavirus pandemic has forced over a thousand Big Apple restaurants to close, and that means no jobs for the NYC bohemia
-A court in Lahore, capital of the Punjab province of Pakistan, sentenced a Christian man to death for committing “blasphemy”: Asif Pervaiz, 37, has been in prison since 2013 on charges of having sent “blasphemous” SMS text messages to employer Muhammad Saeed Khokher. As reported to the Agenzia Fides by the lawyer Saif-ul-Malook, the Muslim lawyer who also defended the Christian Asia Bibi, the court did not give credit to his testimony, in which the Christian man denied any wrongdoing, and sentenced Asif Pervaiz to death on September 8
The evictions will clear the way for the creation of the Mount Qilian National Park, a 50,200 square kilometer parkland and wild animal preserve straddling parts of Qinghai and neighboring Gansu, with the greater part lying in Gansu
Reports of domestic violence in at least fourteen American cities have risen sharply since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study confirms
Anxiety and confusion have gripped Zimbabwe’s Black farmers after the government said it would return land to some white farmers who were kicked off their land under former president Robert Mugabe. As Columbus Mavhunga reports from Harare, authorities are seeking to reassure resettled Black farmers in what some fear may be a reversal of land reforms
Nigerian doctors are on a nationwide strike over unpaid COVID-19 hazard allowances and inadequate protective equipment during the pandemic. Other health workers’ groups and associations are threatening to join the strike, which began Monday
Illegal mining in South Africa is among the most lucrative on the continent, pushing miners to risk health and safety in mostly abandoned shafts. But the chance to strike it rich drives the miners, who are often armed to defend their illegal claims