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Age no bar: 43-year-old passes SSC exam in Sirajganj
Shawdesh Desk: Defying age Rabiul Awal of Kamarkhand upazila of Sirajganj district has passed this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination with a good grade at the age of 43.ReadMore
Victims turned activists: Iraqi women battle abuse
Shawdesh Desk: After a day’s work in an Iraq public sector job, Azhar offers legal support to women who are victims of domestic abuse, something she knows well given herReadMore
New Year’s Eve muted by omicron; many hoping for better 2022
Good riddance to 2021. Let 2022 bring fresh hope. That was a common sentiment as people around the world began welcoming in the new year. In many places, New Year’sReadMore
Tutu’s truth commission a balm for wounded South Africa
Two days after South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) started to investigate apartheid-era crimes, Archbishop Desmond Tutu broke down in tears. Before him sat a former political prisoner whoReadMore
Scarred for life: Canada’s uprooted Indigenous children
Jimmy Papatie, just five years old, clutched at his grandmother’s skirt, his face bathed in tears. He did not want to get on the bus. He did not want toReadMore
Yemeni separated conjoined twins return home from Jordan: UN agency
Shawdesh Desk : Conjoined twin boys from war-torn Yemen who were successfully separated in surgery in Jordan returned to the capital Sanaa this month, the UN children’s agency said onReadMore
Firm transforms waste as Morocco faces trash ‘time bomb’
Recycling in Morocco may be in its infancy, but the North African kingdom is making steady progress, helped by a Swiss firm that specialises in processing organic waste. “Nothing’s thrownReadMore
Omicron: Why do boosters work if two doses struggle?
Shawdesh Desk: The heavily mutated Omicron variant has led to a serious dent in the ability of vaccines to protect us from catching the Covid virus. Two doses of someReadMore
