Liberia investigates child adoptions by U.S. agency
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Liberia's government is investigating what it believes were irregularities in the way seven Liberian children were flown to the United States for adoption, a senior official said on Friday.
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Five months before a Houston woman&#39;s seven adopted children were found in a Nigerian orphanage, Child Protective Services in Houston stopped sending the family monthly payments because the kids no longer were living with her.
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Results of a DNA test on Friday revealed why leftist rebels failed to deliver this week on their promise to free a 3-year-old boy born in captivity: Little Emmanuel has spent the last two years not in a jungle rebel camp, but in a Bogota foster home.
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More than 100,000 children who have been abused or neglected by their biological parents are languishing in foster care, waiting to be adopted. The explanations are practically universal, with nearly every state facing the same problems in running its child welfare agency, a report finds.
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The United Nation's internal auditing agency said on Thursday it was investigating some 250 corruption cases including alleged sexual abuse by peacekeepers and financial irregularities, and it has found the extent of misbehavior surprising.
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TRENTON, NJ Sept. 2, 2004 - A New Jersey man who recently returned from a trip to Liberia has died of an illness that had not been detected in the United States since 1989 but is common in West Africa, state health officials said Thursday.
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A baby with makeup on her forehead led to the discovery of a kidnapped Missouri infant and the arrest of a woman who had suffered a miscarriage the day of the abduction, the FBI said.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - Adoption hotlines around the  world have been jammed with callers since the Asian tsunami on  Dec. 26 orphaned thousands of children, but experts and aid  agencies are telling would-be parents they may be disappointed.
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U.S. President George W. Bush  granted an extension on Wednesday to a policy that allows  Liberians to live and work in the United States on a temporary  basis.
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The event educated families on the adoption process. More than 100- thousand children in the US are waiting to be adopted. Kathy Searle/ Utah Director of Adoption Exchange: &quot;We want to give hope to children
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Six months ago, the death of a 12-year-old Prince George's County boy from untreated dental decay shed a grim spotlight on gaps in federal and state medical assistance programs charged with providing care to 30 million poor children.
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The youngest victims of the Asian  tsunami may be homeless, traumatized and possibly orphaned, but  they are not yet candidates for adoption in the United States,  the State Department said on Wednesday.
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A Britain-based preacher who claims to perform miracles on barren women is being investigated in connection with an alleged child-trafficking ring that spans five countries, Kenyan police said today.
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President Bush has granted a short-term reprieve for thousands of Liberians who have lived in the United States for as many as 16 years but who could have faced deportation beginning Oct. 1, when their temporary residency permits were to expire.
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The Bush administration is funding sexual health projects that teach children that HIV can be contracted through sweat and tears, touching genitals can result in pregnancy, and that a 43-day-old foetus is a thinking person.
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The US government said it was "concerned" by information provided by Amnesty International, which says Sudanese authorities have arrested civilians who speak to foreign officials visiting the troubled Darfur region.
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A Malawian social worker is set to visit the London home of pop star Madonna to assess the treatment of two-year-old David Banda whom she hopes to adopt, a government official said Monday.