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Afghan Subculture of Child Sex Slavery

AFP has traced three former victims of "bacha bazi", or the sexual exploitation of boys, whose testimonies lay bare one...

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Jeff Horn Has ’10-Point Plan’ To Upset Pacquiao

Australian challenger Jeff Horn has a 10-point plan to upset legendary Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao in their World...

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Life After Sexual Slavery In Afghanistan

Adorned in makeup, fake breasts and bells, Jawed whirls around middle-aged men at Kabul's underground bacha bazi, or...

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All Blacks Coach Hansen Blasts Gatland As ‘a Bit Desperate’

All Blacks coach Steve Hansen lit the fuse on simmering tension with rival Warren Gatland Monday, labelling the British...

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Anger In Nepal’s South Threatens Landmark Polls

Ganesh Yadav was shot by police during deadly protests that roiled southern Nepal in 2015, but he is ready to return to...

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Australia’s Crown Resorts Staff Face Trial In China

A Chinese court opened a trial on Monday for 19 current and former employees of Australia's Crown Resorts company who...

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Myanmar and Thailand Torch $1 Billion of Seized Drugs

Myanmar and Thailand started torching nearly $1 billion worth of seized narcotics on Monday, a defiant show of force as...

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China’s Hydropower Frenzy Drowns Sacred Mountains

Towering walls of concrete entomb lush forests on mountainsides in southwest China as workers toil on the dry riverbed...

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N.Korea Doubts Over South’s Olympic Invite

A top North Korean sports official voiced doubts over a proposal by South Korean President Moon Jae-In to form a...

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Erdogan’s Istanbul Opera House Plan Sparks Excitement, Controversy

On the buzzing Taksim Square of Istanbul, the focal point of the modern city, a giant disused building looms over...

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Epic Struggle of Film About Cairo On Eve of Revolution

Everyone thought Tamer El Said had gone mad in the decade it took him to make his film "In the Last Days of the City"....

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South Korea’s Ryu Moves To No. 1 With LPGA Arkansas Win

Ryu So-Yeon seized the world number one ranking on Sunday as she closed with a two-under 69 at the Northwest Arkansas...

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Great Barrier Reef A $42 Billion Asset ‘too Big To Fail’

Australia's under-pressure Great Barrier Reef is an asset worth Aus$56 billion (US$42 billion) and as an ecosystem and...

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Successful SpaceX Launch Delivers Satellites Into Orbit

The American company SpaceX on Sunday successfully placed 10 satellites for the communications company Iridium into...

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New Zealand One Win Away From America’s Cup Glory

Helmsman Peter Burling and Emirates Team New Zealand defeated two-time defenders Oracle Team USA twice on Sunday to...

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South African Batsman AB de Villiers To Decide Future In August

AB de Villiers left South Africa's tour of England saying he would decide his cricket future in August. One of the...

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All Black Ioane’s Family Takes In Marooned Lions Fan

A stranded British and Irish Lions supporter has told how a stranger's act of kindness resulted in him bunking down at...

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Bunker Chip-In Brings Spieth His 10th PGA Title

Jordan Spieth sank a bunker shot on the first playoff hole on Sunday to defeat US compatriot Daniel Berger and win the...

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Rahane, Kohli Shine As India Rout West Indies In Second ODI

Ajinkya Rahane's third hundred and a blistering assault by captain Virat Kohli took India to a comfortable 105-run...