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Malala’s We Are Displaced out on Sept 4

NEW YORK: Nobel Prize laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai is working on her next book about refugees and their plights. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers told Associated Press on Monday that Yousafzai’s ‘We Are Displaced’ will come out Sept 4. The book will combine her own experiences with accounts …

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Undaunted by Trump’s wall, migrants vow to go over it

Eladio Sanchez is unimpressed by the eight border wall prototypes looming over his house in Tijuana, Mexico, almost within spitting distance of where US President Donald Trump will visit Tuesday. At age 30, he has already snuck over the border several times, and doesn’t expect Trump’s wall will have much …

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7 years of war have taken a high toll on Syria’s children

BEIRUT: After seven years of war in Syria, the United Nations has one thing to say: Stop the war on children. The numbers speak for themselves. Of Syria’s estimated 10 million children, 8.6 million are now in dire need of assistance, up from about half a million after the first …

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