Tag: around-three
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Girls under 19 account for 30% of El Salvador pregnancies: UN
Nearly one in three pregnancies in El Salvador are to girls under 19, according to a UN report released Friday that highlights social pressures in the country, which bans abortion. In 2015, 30 percent of the 83,500 pregnancies in El Salvador were to “adolescents aged between 10 and 19,” the study by the UN Population…
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Famed Pakistan philanthropist Edhi dies in Karachi
By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Famed philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, who set up one of Pakistan's biggest welfare organizations and was revered as a “living saint” by many in the South Asian country, died in hospital late on Friday. Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif paid tribute to him as “a great servant…