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Meet Sonita, The Afghan Rapper Ending Child Marriage One Song At A Time

When Sonita Alizadeh was 10, her parents tried to marry her off. They were unsuccessful, but when she became a teenager they tried again. What they didn’t know was th...

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Health

Infant Mortality Rate: Target Set By Millennium Development Goals Not Met

Sample Registration System (SRS) Bulletin 2014, published by the Registrar General of India and was released earlier this month shows that none of the ten big states (for w...

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TV

True Review Television - Threshold Of New Shows

Dahleez which is a finite series of 160 episodes, winds down this weekend, although the requisite 160 episodes haven’t been reached. Sadly, its slot will be taken up ...

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Trending

Where Private School Is Not A Privilege

In the United States, private school is generally a privilege of the rich. But in poorer nations, particularly in Africa and South Asia, families of all social classes send...

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Festivals

New York Asian Film Festival Is Having A Southeast Asian Moment

At the New York Asian Film Festival, Asian film means movies mostly from the continent’s Big Three: Japan, South Korea and the Chinese-language cinemas of Hong Kong, ...

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Festivals

The Adventure Travel Film Festival

Travel and adventure shows, films, documentaries. Whichever of the three, there are countless ones of differing quality on our screens today. However, a largely unknown fac...

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Hollywood

Gene Simmons And Joanna Krupa Attend Ante Up For A Cancer Free Generation Poker Tournament

Dozens of stars from TV, sports, music and film anted up and bet big to support talented young cancer researchers and helped change the future of cancer at Tower Cancer Res...

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Health

A Big Boost For Public Health

Maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) is no longer a major public health problem in the World Health Organisation (WHO) South-East Asia region. The WHO South-East Asia Region...

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Environment

Norway Will Stop Using Products From Deforestation

Oil-rich Norway is taking a big step in saving tropical rainforests that are crucial to absorbing the world's carbon emissions. The Scandinavian country has become the firs...

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Alternative Entertainment

Irish Music Festival Helping Revive Genre On P.E.I.

The second annual North Atlantic Tionól, an Irish music festival, happens this weekend, June 10 - 12, at Brackley Beach. A tionól (pronounced TIH-nawl) is a v...

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