Taiwan kindergarten druggings spark alarm among island's parents
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteInvestigations into the drugging of preschool children in Taiwan have sparked widespread alarm on the island. Read More
Voices: ‘Seeking safety by any means they can’: the unimaginable horrors that drive refugees to the sea
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis week we have once again been confronted by the appalling news of people losing their lives at sea as they desperately seek sanctuary….
Girls as young as 12 raped in Sudan conflict as UN warns of rise in sexual violence
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDozens of women and girls, some as young as 12, have been sexually assaulted in the two months since Sudan erupted into…
Taliban's treatment of women could be 'gender apartheid' - UN expert
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA United Nations expert said on Monday that the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women and girls could amount to gender apartheid as…
Children and elderly dying at Sudan’s border after walking for days to flee war
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteChildren and elderly people are dying at the Sudanese border after exhausting journeys fleeing the bloody conflict in Khartoum. Read More
Rise of the single mother: Number seeking to get pregnant through IVF soars 44% in wake of Covid - amid boom in egg-freezing rates
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe number of single women trying to get pregnant through IVF has soared while demand for egg-freezing is also booming, Read More
Nearly 100 die as scorching heatwave with 45C temperatures sweeps northern India
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A scorching heatwave sweeping across northeast India has caused nearly 100 deaths in two states with hundreds hospitalised in the span of…
Boss of takeaway infested with cockroaches banned from owning food business for life
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA takeaway boss who ran an eatery so filthy it was rampant with rats, mice and cockroaches has been banned from owning…
Synthetic human embryo raises ethical issues
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteScientists have created the synthetic human embryos – using no eggs or sperm – provoking deep ethical questions, according to reports. Read…
More than 10,000 arrivals on small boats so far in 2023
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMore than 10,000 people have been detected crossing the English Channel in small boats so far this year, after a jump in…