'Education apartheid': schooling in crisis in Pakistan
ABDULLAH GOTH — Aneesa Haroon drops off her tattered school bag at her rural home in Pakistan and hurriedly grabs lunch before joining her father in the fields to pick vegetables.

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Germany reports foot-and-mouth disease in water buffalo
BERLIN - Germany on Friday registered three cases of foot-and-mouth disease in water buffalo on a farm near Berlin, the country's first reported cases of the livestock disease since 1988.

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No jail, no fine, but Trump is still guilty
NEW YORK - US President-elect Donald Trump called his criminal prosecution a &disgrace to the system& on Friday ahead of his sentencing for covering up hush money payments to a porn star.

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‘Real-world harm& foreseen if Meta ends fact-checks
WASHINGTON - There will be &real-world harm& if Meta expands its decision to scrap fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, a global network has warned while disputing CEO Mark Zuckerberg&s claim that such moderation amounts to censorship.

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TikTok showdown reaches US Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — The future of the wildly popular social media platform TikTok rides on a US Supreme Court clash that pits national security against free speech — and one president against another.

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8 injured in hammer attack at Japanese university
TOKYO - Eight people were injured on Friday in a hammer attack at a university campus in the suburbs of Tokyo,  with a 22-year-old female student arrested at the scene, according to Japanese media reports.

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