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Trump Wants to Make Schools Safe by Arming School Teachers

The White House on Sunday vowed to help provide "rigorous firearms training" to some schoolteachers and formally endorsed a bill to tighten the federal background checks system, but backed off President Trump's earlier call to raise the minimum age to...

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Fighting prevents UN and aid partners from returning to Syria’s war-battered east Ghouta

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Aid convoy heads to Douma, Syria

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Despite unrest, DR Congo must press ahead with preparations for credible elections, says UN envoy

Highlighting political tensions and the disintegrating security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Leila Zerrougui, briefing the Security Council for the first time as head of the UN stabilization mission in the contry, said...

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Future for women – freedom

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Girls from a former slave community at an Anti-Slavery International school in Niger

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