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Note: 12-year-old Shruti’s body parts are shutting down one by one. If her treatment discontinues, she’ll lose her life.
"Open your Maths book now," said my 12-year-old daughter, Shruti, holding her wooden scale. She took a chalk and drew…
Boris Johnson: what first 24 hours reveal about new prime minister's prospects
Friday, 26 July 2019 03:25 Written by theconversation It seems that more has been said about the Boris Johnson premiership in 24 hours than was said about his…
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Soft Brexit is more likely than ever, thanks to Boris Johnson’s new hard Brexit cabinet – here's why
Friday, 26 July 2019 03:23 Written by theconversation Boris Johnson’s appointment of a cabinet full of Brexit hardliners will be alarming for anybody concerned about the possibility of…
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Boris Johnson: what first speech as prime minister suggests is in store for Britain
Friday, 26 July 2019 03:12 Written by theconversation Boris Johnson’s speech outside Number 10 Downing Street – his first as prime minister of the United Kingdom – was…
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ARV breakthrough: trial in South Africa confirms effectiveness of new drug
The drug is set to improve HIV treatment. shutterstock Michelle Moorhouse, University of the Witwatersrand and Willem Daniel Francois Venter,…
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Choguel Kokalla Maïga, Prime Minister of Mali, has been dismissed…
Russian Twitter trolls stoke anti-immigrant lies ahead of Canadian election
Friday, 26 July 2019 02:59 Written by theconversation Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau on March 14, 2018. The same Russian online troll farm that meddled in the American presidential…
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Newcomers and Canadian high school students are friendly, but not friends
Thursday, 25 July 2019 12:41 Written by theconversation Friendliness to newcomers is not translating into friendship in schools, finds one study. Here, a youth receives her Certificate of…
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Behind the Boko Haram headlines, slavery in Africa is the real crisis
Boko Haram’s recent kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to…
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Muhammad Dan Suleiman, University of Western Australia The Conversation/Zenobia Ahmed, CC BY-SA Known as the “Giant of Africa”, Nigeria is…
Undocumented immigrants to be kicked out without court approval as Trump’s new strategy kicks in
Wednesday, 24 July 2019 11:23 Written by face2faceafrica From Tuesday, any migrant who cannot prove that they have been in the United States continuously for more than two…
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