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Over 60,000 children to get emergency education after Indonesia tsunami

More than 60,000 children and youth whose lives were devastated by the Indonesian tsunami will soon be back in safe schools. An emergency response by the humanitarian fund Education Cannot Wait will target the most vulnerable girls and boys – including orphans, severely-traumatized children and those with disabilities. An allocation of $2.6 million will finance 910 temporary classrooms and educational supplies. More than half of those benefiting will be girls. An additional 2700 teachers – 75% of them female – will be trained to provide psychosocial support for children who…

Novelist Julián Fuks: ‘I never thought dark forces might make me leave Brazil

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The election of Jair Bolsonaro is a threat to the country’s culture, but writers and artists are determined to fight guns with books I come from two generations of political exiles. My grandparents left Romania when antisemitism threatened to destroy everything they had: it would soon destroy their parents and siblings. From these grandparents, I inherited my Jewish surname; from their destination, Argentina, my first name. My parents, in turn, left Argentina when the state terror became too grim; friends and colleagues were slaughtered. From my parents, who went to…

The world’s cutest fight: Wild llamas appear to hug as they crash into one another during battle for territory in the Atacama Desert

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This is the stunning moment a pair of vicunas appear to hug as they smash into one another in a violent turf war in the remote Atacama Desert. The feisty animals, which are distant relatives of llamas, can be see scrapping and biting at one another as they engage in the heated duel. Henrique Olsen de Assumpção, 24, who witnessed the startling events unfold on in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile, said he was thrilled to be in the right place at the right time. The photographer, from Porto…

Royal Wedding 2018 Live Updates: Celebrities arrives at Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s big day

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Princess Eugenie showed off her scars as she married Jack Brooksbank in the second royal wedding of the year in Windsor today. The low back feature on the dress – designed by Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos, who founded the British based label Peter Pilotto – was at the specific request of the bride who had surgery aged 12 to correct scoliosis. As she walked down the aisle, the newest member of the Royal family mouthed to his bride that she looked ‘perfect’. After a traditional ceremony, during which…

Spanish opera star Montserrat Caballe dies aged 85

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Spain’s world-famous opera singer Montserrat Caballe, known for her velvet-edged voice and radical rock duet with Queen singer Freddie Mercury, died in Barcelona on Saturday at the age of 85. Hailed as one of the world’s greatest singers for her vocal virtuosity and dramatic powers, Caballe charmed audiences for half a century with a huge repertoire that saw her perform across the globe. The Spanish soprano was already considered an opera great when her duet with Mercury, a boundary-busting combination of opera and rock, became the anthem for the 1992…

Protests overshadow party rallies ahead of Bosnia vote

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Protests organised in Bosnia’s two largest cities on Friday by a pair of fathers demanding the truth about the alleged murders of their sons overshadowed rallies for Sunday’s general election. The young men’s parents and the opposition accuse the authorities of being involved in what they say were murders that were concealed by police and prosecutors for political reasons. Wide public support for the two grieving fathers has bridged Bosnia’s ethnic divisions, reflecting discontent with a political system and judiciary mired in corruption and party dominance in the 23 years…

US Congress calls on Liberia to implement truth commission’s recommendations on war crimes

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The United States Congress has given its support for the complete implementation of Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) recommendation for the creation of a tribunal to try suspected war crimes and other atrocities committed during the nation’s 14-year civil war, which ended in 2003. On Wednesday, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed a resolution supporting the creation of an Extraordinary Criminal Tribunal for Liberia. Between 1990 and 2003 the West African country was caught in a spiral of civil conflicts marked by an orgy of killings. During…

Science teacher ‘had sex with boy on plane home from school trip, then told him she was pregnant’

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A science teacher had sex with a pupil in the toilets of a passenger jet returning from a school trip overseas, a court heard. Eleanor Wilson, 29, is accused of fondling the boy as she sat next to him on the flight before beckoning him into the toilet and performing a sex act on him. They then had full sex in the cubicle before going back to their seats. Bristol Crown Court heard that Wilson later told the boy she was pregnant and that he was the father, but that…

Woman jailed for life after admitting teenager’s murder in 2004

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A female football coach who walked into a police station to confess to the unsolved murder of a teenager who was battered to death outside his home in 2004 has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 17 and a half years. Karen Tunmore, 36, from Killingworth, North Tyneside, could no longer live with the guilt and confessed in July to killing Scott Pritchard, 19, in Sunderland, smashing him over the head with a baseball bat in a row over money. Mr Pritchard’s father Robert Stacey, known as…

Tesco Bank fined £16.4m over cyber attack

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Tesco Bank has been fined £16.4m by the UK financial regulator for failings surrounding a cyber-attack on its customers in November 2016. The Financial Conduct Authority said the bank had failed to exercise due skill, care and diligence in protecting its personal current account holders. The fraudsters got away with £2.26m. Tesco Bank said all the money had been refunded to account holders. It added it was “very sorry” for the impact the attack had had on customers. ‘Too little, too late’ The FCA said that the attack had been…