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Education faces 'red alert' as XP SP2's retirement looms

Organizations in education and the financial, health care, and manufacturing industries will soon face more security risks because they continue to run the soon-to-be-retired Windows XP Service Pack 2.

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US student added to no-fly list stuck in Egypt

(AP Video) A Virginia man, stuck in Egypt for the last 6 weeks living in a cheap hotel and surviving on fast food, said Wednesday his name was placed on a U.S. no-fly list because of a trip to Yemen....

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South Africa's education system crumbling

South Africa's public education system shows signs of serious decline amidst reports of graduation rates as low as nine percent, unqualified teachers, and crumbling buildings where requests for repair go unanswered....

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Security Council seeks to protect children recruited for war

UN Security Council ready to impose asset freezing, arms embargoes and travel restrictions against individuals who violate international law by recruiting, sexually abusing, or maiming and killing children in war....

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Radhika Coomaraswamy meets with child victims in Uganda

Armed conflict creates "survivors whose resilience must be reinforced by government, international organizations and civil society as well as adequate rehabilitation and reintegration programs," she said. ...

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UN issues Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict

For the first time the report includes a list of the most persistent violators for recruiting and using children, and parties to conflict who have killed and maimed and raped and used sexual violence against children....

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Canada begins repairing harm caused by residential schools

Canada plans to strengthen education for Aboriginal people and repeal old provisions of the Indian Act that provide the authority to establish Indian Residential Schools and remove children from their homes and communities....

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China upholds five-year sentence for quake activist

Supporters said officials had ordered Tan Zuoren's arrest because he compiled a list of children who died in the Sichuan earthquake and an independent report on the collapse of school buildings. ...

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Thai student burns school to get out of class

A Thai teenager who torched the library at his boarding school to avoid having to attend class said he got the idea from protesters who burned buildings in Bangkok last month, media reports said Monday....

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Muslim leader demands review of German "violence" finding

A German Muslim leader demanded Monday a re-analysis of data which suggests that young Muslim males develop violent attitudes when they become more devout attenders at mosque....

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