Ghanaian children wrongly labelled as trafficked are being taken from their homes, BBC Africa Eye finds.
Sheriff Greg Capers was the picture of a Texas lawman as he announced the capture of a suspected mass shooter.
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Sheriff Greg Capers' turn in the national spotlight after an April mass shooting belied years of complaints about corruption and dysfunction that were previously unknown outside of the piney woods of San Jacinto County.
As more people seek diagnosis and treatment, the system is unable to serve them, and social media is filling in those gaps
The mayor wants to improve the neighborhood for residents, but sex workers oppose measures recently put in place. Now the city is looking to set up legal prostitution elsewhere.
Titles like AI Dungeon are already using generative AI to generate in-game content. Nobody knows who owns it.
Jordan has built a giant power plant meant to fulfill great hopes for energy independence. But the oil shale station in the kingdom’s desert has pushed the country into mounting debt to China.
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Thousands of Amazon Indigenous are leaving their rainforest villages in a migration to urban areas that is reshaping their lives, their villages and their new cities.
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Morality ministry decrees another reduction of Afghan women’s access to public spaces
The UK territory's proposal to investigate 'alternative forms of governance' provoked international headlines, but what's actually going on?
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Accompanied suicide ― a form of assisted suicide ― has been exempt from punishment in Germany since 2020. The Bundestag is working on a law covering the practice. Will the country become a pioneer in end-of-life choice?
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Accompanied suicide - a form of assisted suicide - has been exempt from punishment in Germany since 2020. The Bundestag is working on a law covering the practice. Will the country become a pioneer in end-of-life choice?
Chinese embassy in London tells UK to ‘stop interfering’ in China’s affairs, as Hong Kong leader says overseas activists will be ‘pursued for life.’
A 27-year-old Indian woman has started a petition to put an end to the social evil of dowry.
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A 27-year-old Indian woman has started a petition to put an end to the social evil of dowry. Dowries have been illegal in India since 1961, but the bride's family is still expected to gift cash, clothes and jewellery to the groom's family.
Editorial: President Nayib Bukele’s hardline campaign against gangs has won admirers at home and abroad. Look closer and its flaws are glaring
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President Nayib Bukele’s hardline campaign against gangs has won admirers at home and abroad. Look closer and its flaws are glaring.
Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine. The tech may also be sold overseas.
Two massive reforms are aimed at improving Nigeria's dilapidated universities - but will they work?
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A scene in the film features a map depicting China's territorial claims in the disputed South China Sea.
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When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion a year ago, it shook efforts to legalize and make abortions safer in Africa.
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When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion a year ago, it shook efforts to legalize and make abortions safer in Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest rate of unintended pregnancies, and 77% of abortions are estimated to be unsafe.
Overdoses linked to tranq, the street drug that can cause horrific wounds, have spiked 276 percent, according to the CDC.
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As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.
Over half a million German Roman Catholics left the church last year alone. Why do people break with the institution? DW's Christoph Strack caught up with one of those who have done so.
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