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Brazil: Gov. regroups after huge protests against president

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is holding what her agenda describes as a “political coordination” meeting one day after nationwide demonstrations urging her ouster brought millions into the streets. Brazil’s top newspapers said Sunday’s protests were the largest political demonstrations in the country’s history. The …

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As old as the war: 5-year-old Syrians grow up away from home

BEIRUT (AP) – They are as old as the Syrian war: Five-year-old Syrian children growing up as refugees in foreign, unfamiliar places far away from home. They are the silent victims of a horrific war, innocent of the violence that surrounds them yet already familiar with grown-up words like war, …

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UNICEF: More than 80 percent of Syria children harmed by war

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) – More than 80 percent of Syria’s children have been harmed by the country’s conflict, including growing numbers of those who were forced to work, join armed groups or marry young because of widening poverty, the U.N. children’s agency said Monday, on the fifth anniversary of the …

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