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Aisha is among around 70 women and children undergoing a deradicalisation programme - led by psychologists and Islamic teachers - designed to challenge the teachings they received and beliefs they adopted while under the control of Boko Haram.

Activists attending a major conference on FGM opening in Rome on Monday called for UN agencies and governments to start focusing attention beyond Africa.

"President Trump was very clear in his inaugural speech, and at other times, that he is very supportive of LGBTQ rights and this will be reflected in this administration."

Informal rules and discrimination by Indian landlords to keep out religious minorities and single people are eroding the multi-cultural nature of India's cities and dividing communities into ghettos, analysts say.

British lawmakers want to know the barriers that prevent men from sharing parental duties.

Anas Modamani, a 19-year-old refugee from Damascus, was pictured in September 2015 taking a selfie with Merkel during her visit to a refugee shelter in Berlin's Spandau district.

US President-elect Donald Trump has suggested he will scrap policies to address climate change in his first year in office.

The battle to restrict abortion in the United States, heating up with the election of Donald Trump as president and a conservative Congress, will be waged from the nation's highest court down to state legislatures.

The new plant generates not only electricity, but also heat for the farm's greenhouses, with fertiliser as a by-product.

Researchers found 78 percent of girls sold for commercial sexual exploitation were from the eastern state of West Bengal.

The majority of farmers in these countries are smallholders using traditional farming methods, who do not have the financial safety nets to invest in new crops

Nearly 5 million Syrians uprooted by fighting are hosted in just a handful of bordering countries, including Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, according to UN data.