Teaching Children Regardless of Grade

Educators in a remote valley in India devised a community approach to instructing students when teachers were sparse. It's catching on.
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African Officials Respond to France?s Restitution Report

Government officials from Senegal and the Ivory Coast ask for African treasures to be returned.
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A Taste of Ivory Coast in Brooklyn

Cheick Cisse, the owner of New Ivoire in Harlem, opened Paradis des Gouts hoping to share the food of his childhood with those outside his immigrant community.
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Semenya wins Prefontaine 800 in world's best time this year

South Africa's Caster Semenya won 800 meters at the Prefontaine Classic while controversy swirls about a rule that could limit her from competing at the distance
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UN adopts measure linking conflict to hunger and starvation

The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution that for the first time recognizes the link between conflict and hunger and condemns the use of starvation as a method of warfare.
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Semenya wins 1500 in Diamond League opener in Doha

Caster Semenya's quest for a title double in the Diamond League starts well when she wins the 1,500 meters in a South African record time in Doha
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WORLD CUP: Morocco back after 2 decades with eye on 2 events

Back after 20 years, Morocco out to prove its World Cup worth as it could be a future tournament host by the time it kicks off in Russia
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In this April 14, 2018 photo provided by the United Nations, Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, the Ivory Coast's ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the U.N. Security Council at United Nations ...

In this April 14, 2018 photo provided by the United Nations, Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, the Ivory Coast's ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the U.N. Security Council at United Nations headquarters. The veteran diplomat died suddenly on Wednes
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UN Security Council mourns death of Ivory Coast ambassador

The Security Council have bid farewell to veteran diplomat Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, the Ivory Coast's ambassador to the United Nations who died just months after starting a two-year term on the U.N.'s most powerful body
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Ivory Coast ambassador Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue to UN dies

Veteran diplomat Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, the Ivory Coast's ambassador to the United Nations and a member of the UN Security Council, has died suddenly
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UN rejects Russian attempt to condemn US aggression in Syria

The UN Security Council overwhelmingly rejected a Russian resolution calling for condemnation of the "aggression" by the United States and its allies against Syria on Saturday
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The Latest: Syrian news agency reports missile attack

Syria's state-run news agency says the military's air defenses have confronted a missile attack on air base in central Syria, but US officials deny launching airstrikes
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The Latest: Security Council to discuss suspected gas attack

The U.N. Security Council is planning to meet in emergency session on Monday to discuss a suspected poison gas attack in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, the last foothold for the Syrian opposition
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The Latest: McCain: Trump move 'emboldened' Syria in attack

Sen. John McCain says President Donald Trump "emboldened" the Syrian government to commit a suspected chemical attack on its people by signaling last week that the U.S. planned to withdraw its troops from the country
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The Latest: Emergency UN meeting called over Syrian attack

The United Nations Security Council is holding an emergency meeting to discuss a suspected chemical attack in Syria
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World's top cocoa producers fight to protect forests

Top cocoa producers fight to protect forests from illegal farms that feed global chocolate
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UN rights chief: Syria siege involved 'war crimes'

The UN human rights chief told an informal meeting of the Security Council Monday that the Syrian government's siege of the Damascus suburbs of eastern Ghouta has involved "pervasive war crimes," use of chemical weapons and starvation as a weapon of war.
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Cuban is youngest male field event winner at world indoors

Juan Miguel Echevarria has become the youngest male field event winner by taking the long jump and Katarina Johnson-Thompson has claimed her first global title in the pentathlon at the world indoor athletics championships in Birmingham
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On a monthlong cruise of Africa, a gambol in Gambia

One way to tour Africa? On a monthlong cruise with shore excursions, including a gambol in Gambia
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Ivory Coast Arrests Six in Ring That Smuggled Parts of Elephants, Leopards and Pangolins

The crackdown follows another major bust of an ivory trafficking network in Gabon
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Smuggling boat sinks in Mediterranean, 64 feared dead

The UN migration agency has raised the probable death toll to 64 in the weekend sinking of a smugglers' rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya
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FILE - In this Tuesday, May 31, 2011 file photo, farmer Issiaka Ouedraogo walks past cocoa pods growing on a tree on a cocoa farm outside the village of Fangolo, near Duekoue Ivory Coast. On Friday, ...

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 31, 2011 file photo, farmer Issiaka Ouedraogo walks past cocoa pods growing on a tree on a cocoa farm outside the village of Fangolo, near Duekoue Ivory Coast. On Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, The Associated Press reported that st
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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
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George Weah: Slum to soccer stardom and now president

George Weah's soccer talent took him from a slum surrounded by swamps in Liberia to superstardom in Paris, Milan and London. That's only half the story
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UN Security Council welcomes new members with flag ceremony

Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Peru and Poland join U.N. Security Council, with flag ceremony
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