Child marriage spans continents, language, religion, caste. In India the girls will typically be attached to boys four or five years older; in Yemen, Afghanistan, and other countries with high ...

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Yemen-based Houthis on Jan 22 released the crew of Galaxy Leader cargo ship. The Yemeni rebels had seized the ship in Nov 2023, weeks after war in Gaza started. Houthis said 25 crew members were ...

Hundreds of couples this week are poised to marry in Thailand as its overwhelmingly popular marriage equality law goes into ...

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A Chinese man Thursday was sentenced to death for killing a man in a knife attack near Shanghai last summer. A Japanese mother and her child were also injured on a Japanese school bus in Suzhou, ...

As Syria enters a critical phase of reconstruction, restoring basic needs for its most vulnerable groups—women and children—has become an urgent priority. However, the process is fraught with ...

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An executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend refugee admissions has magnified the fears of one Afghan ...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unilaterally released 153 war detainees DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels unilaterally released 153 war ...

Hans Grundberg, the United Nations special envoy for Yemen, welcomed the “heartwarming” reports that the Houthis had “put an end to the arbitrary detention” of the ship’s crew for 14 months.