A child of war, she now fights to learn
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RUMBEK, Sudan -- At 14, Mary Achok Marial knows how to handle an AK-47 assault rifle, but she can barely read. She knows how to forage for food to survive, but when she needs to buy salt at the market, she has trouble doing the math.
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In Olympic terms she was an also-ran, trailing in behind the leaders with her dreams shattered. But for 18-year-old Robina Yaar and for Afghanistan, the adage about &quot;taking part being more important than winning&quot; for once rang true.
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Shamila Kohestani, the captain of the Afghanistan national womenâs soccer team who was deprived an education for much of her childhood, is now growing as a student in America.
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In a grim marker of the longevity of the Iraq war, children too young to remember losing a parent in action are growing up.
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Difficulty in school isnât always a sign of a learning disorder, it may just be a sign that a childâs eyes arenât working properly.
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Children are fighting in almost every major conflict, in both government and opposition forces, according to a report published today.
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She was only five when she had a head injury that damaged her skull severely. There were multiple fractures on the skull which had become bare open at several places.
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A 14-month-old Iraqi girl who received free treatment in the United States for a possibly fatal growth in her neck began the trip home Tuesday, about six months after her parents brought her to a U.S. military ...
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Emma-Jane Kirby shares an evocative trip down memory lane with a woman who, as a young girl, was part of the French Resistance in London.
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NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y., Feb. 26 -- In a light-filled lobby of a hospital for sick children, an American mother talked on Monday with an Iraqi father about how their lives had been altered and entwined by a war thousands of miles away.
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A 6-year-old Palestinian girl may be about to experience at first hand the gulf between care of spinal injuries in the rich world and developing countries.
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Children as young as five are learning a deep hatred as the power struggle between militias takes a disturbing new course
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She was in the midst of training when a high level decision was made to discontinue the Second World War course for women.
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Kevin Lackey is eager to take what he's learned in the Marine Reserves into war in Iraq. Theresa Lackey can't bear to watch the news, for fear she'll see soldiers searching for the enemy in houses pockmarked by bullet holes &#151; the kind of work her son has been training for.
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A shy toddler with a strange name is one thread in a larger story of Africans now rebuilding interrupted lives - sometimes after decades of war.
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BEACH CAMP, Gaza  - Forty years after Israeli troops occupied the Gaza Strip, Palestinian grandmother Umm Ali struggles to come to terms with a twist of fate that she feels has ended up making her a refugee for most of her life.
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At the age of 12 Oscar Torres joined a guerilla army in his native El Salvador. A new film based on his story highlights the plight of child soldiers now fighting in more than 20 conflicts around the world.