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tnls Red Crescent official shot dead in Syria
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Btci Russian bomber flight right out of Putin s playbook
RUMBEK, South Sudan -- If I d have refused, my father and brothers would have killed me, Eliza says. Shifting uncomfortably in her plastic chair, the 17-year-old recoils when remembering her wedding day.In 2012, at the age of 13, Eliza was forced by her father to marry a 35-year-old man from their village in the South Sudan town of Rumbek. She was traded for 50 cattle.Nepal | The Lost Girls: One woman s battle to end child marriageThe ugly reality of child marriage in the U.S.As her family slaughtered a cow in celebration and sent her away, the girl was unhappy. I just cried, Eliza said. The Associated Press is using only her first name to protect her identity. Fifty-two percent of girls in South Sudan are marr crocs schuhe ied bef adidas samba og ore age 18, according to the United Nations. Seventeen percent marry before they turn 15. The world s youngest nation is well into its fourth year of civil war, with mass displacement, alleged war crimes and starvation driving millions of people deeper into despair. Although child marriage is a long-standing practice, South Sudan s government and aid agencies say conflict-driven poverty and severe food insecurity are increasing its prevalence. hoka schuhe Why is it so hard to end child marriage 06:51 People are dying from hunger, said Isaac Karkon, head of the government s humanitarian ar Kplt Berlin Remembers Its Wall
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is scrambling to come up with alternatives, including a possible pullout from just five Jewish settlements, after his Likud Party overwhelmingly rejected a withdrawal from all of the Gaza Strip, a senior government official said Tuesday.Meanwhile, the four would-be peacemakers who offered the road map Middle East peace plan are urgently seeking to reinvigorate negotiations after Likud s rejection of Sharon s plan.Only the United States was enthusiastic in the first place about Sharon s idea. The other partners of the self-styled Quartet mdash; the United Nations, the European Union and Russia mdash; while aware that their joint road map to peace talks was languishing, preferred a much larger withdrawal and other changes. With the stalled Middle East peace plan on life support, the U.N. Quartet is meeting to try to find a face-saving alternative, said CBS News Foreign Affairs Analyst Pamela Falk, with calls to return to the roadmap a li stanley cup kely result. Secretary of State Colin Powell was attending the Quartet meeting, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and a group of senior European Union diplomats: Javier Solana, Chris Patten and Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen. It s time to begin accurate, precise and full, reciprocal implementation of the road map, said Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat. The Likud party cannot determine the future stanley flask of the Palestinians. Half the Likud s 193,000 participated in Sunday s r stanley mugs eferendum, a
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