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Kenya's economy faces climate change risks: World Bank
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Stocks, dollar rise before key US inflation data
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After wins abroad, Syria leader must gain trust at home
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Markets rise ahead of US data, expected Fed rate cut
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German factory orders rise more than expected
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Flooding kills two as Vietnam hit by dozens of landslides
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Italy to open Europe's first marine sanctuary for dolphins
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Hong Kong university suspends student union after calls for fire justice
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Asian markets rise ahead of US data, expected Fed rate cut
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Georgia's street dogs stir affection, fear, national debate
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Pandas and ping-pong: Macron ending China visit on lighter note
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TikTok to comply with 'upsetting' Australian under-16 ban
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Pentagon endorses Australia submarine pact
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Softbank's Son says super AI could make humans like fish, win Nobel Prize
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OpenAI strikes deal on US$4.6 bn AI centre in Australia
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Rains hamper Sri Lanka cleanup after deadly floods
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Unchecked mining waste taints DR Congo communities
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Asian markets mixed ahead of US data, expected Fed rate cut
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French almond makers revive traditions to counter US dominance
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Aid cuts causing 'tragic' rise in child deaths, Bill Gates tells AFP
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Abortion in Afghanistan: 'My mother crushed my stomach with a stone'
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Mixed day for US equities as Japan's Nikkei rallies
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To counter climate denial, UN scientists must be 'clear' about human role: IPCC chief
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Facebook 'supreme court' admits 'frustrations' in 5 years of work
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South Africa says wants equal treatment, after US G20 exclusion
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One in three French Muslims say suffer discrimination: report
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Microsoft faces complaint in EU over Israeli surveillance data
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Milan-Cortina organisers rush to ready venues as Olympic flame arrives in Italy
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Truth commission urges Finland to rectify Sami injustices
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Stocks rise eyeing series of US rate cuts
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Italy sweatshop probe snares more luxury brands
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EU hits Meta with antitrust probe over WhatsApp AI features
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Russia's Putin heads to India for defence, trade talks
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South Africa telecoms giant Vodacom to take control of Kenya's Safaricom
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Markets mixed as traders struggle to hold Fed cut rally
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Asian markets mixed as traders struggle to hold Fed cut rally
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In Turkey, ancient carved faces shed new light on Neolithic society
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Asian markets stumble as traders struggle to hold Fed cut rally
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Nintendo launches long-awaited 'Metroid Prime 4' sci-fi blaster
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Trump scraps Biden's fuel-economy standards, sparking climate outcry
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US stocks rise as weak jobs data boosts rate cut odds
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Poor hiring data points to US economic weakness
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Germany to host 2029 women's Euros
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Satellite surge threatens space telescopes, astronomers warn
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Greek govt warns farmers not to escalate subsidy protest
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EU agrees deal to ban Russian gas by end of 2027
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Former king's memoirs hits bookstores in Spain
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German lithium project moves ahead in boost for Europe's EV sector
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After an exodus of nurses, Zimbabwe now faces losing its teachers as a new British recruitment policy threatens a fresh brain drain in the southern African country confronting a devastated economy.
'Work without limits': Japan's teachers battle for change
In one of his last diary entries, Japanese teacher Yoshio Kudo lamented workdays that started early and could last until nearly midnight. Two months later, he suffered "karoshi" -- death from overwork.
Headscarf debate reaches Turkish parliament ahead of elections
Turkey's Islamic-rooted ruling party on Friday submitted a constitutional amendment to parliament enshrining women's right to wear headscarves at work and in daily life, reviving a hugely divisive issue in the officially secular state.
Uganda closes schools to fight Ebola, new cases fall
Uganda closed schools nationwide on Friday to curb the spread of Ebola, despite the health minister insisting to AFP that new cases had declined.
Interactive play gives Spain teens insight into gender violence
The row started with something minor: 'Edu' was laughing at something on his phone but refused to show it to his girlfriend 'Ali'. She got upset and they started arguing.
Hazara girl wounded in deadly Afghan attack triumphs in exams
A month after losing her eye in a deadly suicide bomb attack on her academy, a young Hazara woman has finished among the top candidates in Afghanistan's tough university entrance exams.
Fleeing jihadist violence, Niger pupils return to school
With blue schoolbags bouncing off their backs, hundreds of schoolchildren hurtle down small sand dunes eager to attend class again.
US Supreme Court's right-wing skeptical of using race in college admissions
The conservative-majority US Supreme Court appeared poised on Monday to ban the use of race as a factor in deciding who gets into America's elite universities.
After dark, Iran security forces take aim at protest buildings
Iranian security forces targeted a hospital and a student dormitory overnight, a rights group said Saturday, as a protest movement that flared over Mahsa Amini's death entered a seventh week.
Iran tensions rise in protests ahead of Mahsa Amini ceremony
Iranian students protested Tuesday at multiple universities, defying a bloody crackdown as tensions mount on the eve of planned ceremonies marking 40 days since Mahsa Amini's death.
11 pupils die in blaze at Ugandan school for blind
Eleven pupils at a school for the blind in Uganda have burnt to death after a fire tore through a dormitory as they were sleeping in the early hours of Tuesday.
Children among 11 killed in fire at Uganda blind school
Eleven people, mostly children, have been killed in a blaze that tore through a school for the blind in Uganda in the early hours of Tuesday, police and a government minister said.
Thousand join Hungary teacher rebellion over 'humiliating' pay
Hungary's failing schools are becoming the focus of swelling protests, with pupils and parents backing teachers sacked for rebelling over "humiliating" low pay and years of government neglect.
In conservative Florida, LGBT community fights to make its voice heard
A Beyonce hit thumped in the background as Pride parade participants marched on Saturday through the streets of Orlando, transforming the Florida city into a rainbow island in a US state more and more associated with the conservative politics of its governor.
Afghan girls take university exams two weeks after classroom attack
Thousands of Afghan girls and women sat university entrance exams on Thursday under the guard of Taliban snipers, two weeks after a bomber killed dozens of students preparing for the tests.
Ukraine schools battered by Russian onslaught in south
Just a handful of kilometres from the frontline, a shattered village school in the southern Mykolaiv region is a stark sign of the war damage inflicted by Russia on Ukrainian education.
UN condemns 'shameful' year-long ban on Afghan girls' education
The United Nations urged the Taliban on Sunday to reopen high schools for girls across Afghanistan, condemning the ban that began exactly a year ago as "tragic and shameful".
Romania's plagiarism hunter becomes the hunted
Romanian journalist Emilia Sercan has made it her mission to expose plagiarism at the country’s highest levels.
School gardens a lifeline for hungry Cambodian children
Among the spinach crops at a rural Cambodian school garden, children test their maths skills while weighing produce -- but as food prices rise, the vegetable patch has become a safety net for struggling families.
Pandas and Trump teach Hong Kong kids about national security crimes
Rows of fidgeting Hong Kong schoolchildren looked on as a short film explained what constitutes a national security crime, using former US President Donald Trump as an example -- and a warning.
'Submit or quit': Teacher, student brain drain hits Hong Kong schools
As Hong Kong students return for the new academic year, veteran teacher Wong is counting down the days until the political maelstrom sweeping the city leaves him no choice but to quit.
Ukraine students brace for underground school year
Five metres beneath a Kyiv classroom, headmaster Mykhaylo Aliokhin puts the finishing touches on the bunker where his students will spend much of their time once Ukraine's school term starts later this week.
Haiti pushes back school year start as economic crisis bites
Haitian authorities are postponing the start of the school year by one month, as the Caribbean nation grapples with an economic crisis that has caused a fuel shortage and soaring prices.
Biden announces relief for university debts
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced that most Americans trying to pay off university loans will get $10,000 forgiven in a bid to address the decades-old headache of massive educational debt across the country.
Biden announces relief for indebted US university grads
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced that most US university graduates still trying to pay off student loans will each get $10,000 in relief, addressing a decades-old headache of massive educational debt across the country.
Philippine classrooms reopen after more than two years
Millions of children in the Philippines returned to school as the academic year started on Monday, with many taking their seats in classrooms for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic hit.
Ex-boxer Frampton fights for integrated schools in Northern Ireland
Carl Frampton enjoyed many memorable moments during his boxing career but the retired two-weight world champion has now switched his focus to campaigning for integrated schools in divided Northern Ireland.
Taliban torn over reforms one year after seizing power
One year on from the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, some cracks are opening within their ranks over the crucial question of just how much reform their leaders can tolerate.
Canada Indigenous schools abuse: a timeline
For a century, tens of thousands of Indigenous, Inuit and Metis children in Canada were forcibly enrolled in state boarding schools, isolated from their families, language and culture as part of a failed policy of assimilation.
Report finds 'lackadaisical' police response to Texas school shooting
Texas state lawmakers on Sunday slammed law enforcement's slow response to the shooting in Uvalde, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, saying more decisive action could have saved lives.
Beijing delays school reopenings after new Covid outbreak
Most children in Beijing will not return to school next week as originally planned, Chinese officials said on Saturday, after an emerging Covid-19 outbreak prompted authorities to partly reverse a decision to resume in-person teaching.
English-language students swerve UK post Brexit
At the top of Calton Hill overlooking Edinburgh and the North Sea, a visiting English language student from France is in no doubt about the view: "Amazing!" he exclaims.