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BBC News
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A group of armed men are holding children and teachers hostage in a school near the Pakistani district of North Waziristan.
Officials told the BBC that up to 250 children were inside the school. Unconfirmed reports say most of them have been released...
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SF Gate
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The death toll from a suicide blast targeting a group of lawmakers and children rose to 60 on Wednesday, the deadliest attack in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.
Hundreds of mourners gathered at a mosque near the site of the bombing in the..
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USA Today
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A mother and her two children boarded a police bus only seconds before a suicide bomber detonated his payload inside, an attack that killed 13 police and civilians Tuesday, the second such bombing in Afghanistan's capital in four days, police and witnesse..
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BBC News
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Seven children were killed in a US-led coalition air strike against a suspected al-Qaeda hideout in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition has said.
A statement said that a number of militants were also killed in the raid in Paktika province near Pakistan...
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pressesc.com
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Children as young as seven years old were 'forcibly disappeared' by the CIA, according to report published today jointly by six human rights groups naming 39 people who are believed to have been held in secret US custody and whose current whereabouts rema..
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BBC News
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Iraqi children are getting caught up in a growing humanitarian tragedy as violence continues in the country, the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) has warned.
Half of the four million Iraqis who have fled their homes since the conflict began are children...
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USA Today
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Hamas militants have suspended a TV program that featured a Mickey Mouse lookalike urging Palestinian children to fight Israel and work for global Islamic domination, the Palestinian information minister said Wednesday.
Information Minister Mustafa Bar..
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BBC News
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An attack by a US helicopter against suspected insurgents in Iraq has killed a number of children at a primary school, Iraqi security sources say.
The attack took place in Diyala province north-east of Baghdad, the sources say.
A spokesman for the U..
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CBS News
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Police said Wednesday that children were used in a weekend car bombing in which the driver gained permission to park in a busy shopping area after he pointed out that he was leaving his children in the back seat.
The account appeared to confirm one giv..
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Yahoo News
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Taliban fighters used children as human shields to flee heavy fighting this week during an operation by foreign and Afghan forces to clear rebels from around a key hydro-electric dam, NATO said on Wednesday. The Taliban have used human shields before,..
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BBC News
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Children as young as six are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers, says a leading UK charity.
Children in post-conflict areas are being abused by the very people drafted into such zones to help look after them, says Save the Children...
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BBC News
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At least seven Palestinians, including a mother and her four young children, have been killed during an Israeli raid in northern Gaza, medics say.
The family members were killed when a missile hit their home in Beit Hanoun. In separate incidents, a mil..
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BBC News
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The government of Chad has given permission for 103 children who were caught up in a trafficking scandal to be returned home, Unicef says.
Six French aid workers were convicted last year of trying to take the children to Europe, saying they thought the..
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SF Gate
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Officials in the southern city of Samawa said a U.S. Army convoy opened fire Sunday in an unprovoked attack on motorists who were trying to get out of its way, injuring four and destroying a truckload of sheep.
North of Baghdad in Baquba, three U.S. so..
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BBC News
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Three Spanish aircrew detained in Chad over an alleged plot to abduct African children have been released.
They were driven out of the capital's main prison accompanied by their lawyer and the Spanish consul.
A Belgian pilot, who is recovering at a..
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USA Today
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A suicide bomber slammed his truck into a densely populated residential area in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar on Monday, killing at least 28 people, including 19 children, local authorities said.
The attack occurred in a crowded Shiite neighborho..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Air strikes in the British-controlled Helmand province of Afghanistan may have killed civilians, coalition troops said yesterday as local people claimed that between 50 and 80 people, many of them women and children, had died.
In the latest of a series..
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BBC News
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A Palestinian TV station has killed off a controversial Mickey Mouse lookalike that critics said was spreading anti-US and anti-Israeli messages to children.
The Hamas-affiliated al-Aqsa channel aired the last episode on Friday, showing the character,..
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USA Today
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U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in southern Afghanistan left at least 30 people, including women and children, killed or wounded, a local official said Saturday.
Taliban fighters tried to ambush a joint U.S.-Afghan military convoy in Helmand province's G..
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SF Gate
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The U.S. military Monday expressed regret over the deaths of seven Afghan children in an air strike a day earlier but blamed Islamic insurgents for preventing the youngsters from leaving the compound that was hit.
American officials said U.S.-led coali..
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