Tag: town
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Exclusive: ‘I just want to go home’, says first Chibok schoolgirl rescued from Boko Haram
By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani ABUJA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The first of more than 200 abducted Chibok schoolgirls to be rescued from Boko Haram after two years in captivity in northeast Nigeria said on Tuesday in her first interview that she just wants to go home. Amina Ali and her four-month-old baby were rescued in…
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Democrats seek reversal of ban on federal abortion funding
NEW YORK (AP) — The law that bans federal funding for Medicaid coverage of most abortions is now in the spotlight some 40 years after it was passed by Congress, emerging as an election issue in the national debate over the procedure.
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Five starve, dozens more at risk, in Syria’s besieged Madaya: U.N.
Five people have starved to death in the last week in the Syrian town of Madaya, where a single biscuit sells for $15 and baby milk costs $313 per kilo, despite two emergency United Nations aid deliveries to the besieged town, a UN report said. Dozens more people need immediate specialized medical care outside Madaya…
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Breed-your-own insect ‘revolution’ for the kitchen
Katharina Unger and Julia Kaisinger, 25 and 28, have developed a device to breed in the comfort of your own home the protein-rich grubs of the meal beetle, to then eat. “The first step is mentally to get over the fact that you are eating an insect.
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Several wounded in Turkey as mortar hits school near Syria border
Several people were wounded and at least one feared killed after a mortar shell which appeared to have been fired from Syria struck a school in Turkey’s southeastern border province of Kilis, security sources and local media reports said. Footage broadcast on the website of the Hurriyet newspaper showed what appeared to be a body…