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Major brands practise 'wilful ignorance' over child slaves - filmmaker

A farmer opens a cocoa pod at a farm in Toumodi, Ivory Coast, October 13, 2018. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon

By Sonia Elks

23/11/2018

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Children as young as five are being trafficked or made to work for companies supplying some of the world's top brands, which practise "wilful ignorance" of the problem, said the director of a new film.

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Saudi Arabia says reports about torture by Amnesty, HRW are baseless

A folder with a logo of the Human Rights Commission of Saudi Arabia is pictured on a desk during the Universal Periodic Review of Saudi Arabia by the Human Rights Council at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland, November 5, 2018. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

23/11/2018

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Friday dismissed as baseless reports about torture and sexual harassment published by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

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Tensions rise at U.S.-Mexico border as migrants, holiday travelers wait to cross

Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, make their way to the El Chaparral port of entry border crossing between Mexico and the United States, in Tijuana, Mexico, November 22, 2018. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Hannah McKay

By Lizbeth Diaz

22/11/2018

TIJUANA (Reuters) - Hundreds of Central American migrants in Mexico massed on Thursday around a tense U.S. border crossing, where security measures held up long lines of Mexicans headed to Thanksgiving gatherings on the other side of the frontier.

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Congo confirms near record number of new Ebola cases on Wednesday

Health workers at Mangina hospital prepare to conduct a safe burial, in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 15, 2018. PHOTO BY WHO/Nyka Alexander

22/11/2018

DAKAR (Reuters) - Thirteen new cases of Ebola were confirmed on Wednesday in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo - one of the highest daily counts since the start of the outbreak in July, the health ministry said.

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Ethiopia chooses dissident to head vote board as PM presses reforms

Ethiopian opposition leader, Birtukan Mideksa, speaks to reporters from the window of a prison van after being freed from prison in Addis Ababa, October 6, 2010. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Stringer

22/11/2018

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia chose a former exiled dissident to head its election board on Thursday - part of a dizzying shake-up by the new prime minister that has brought rebels back into the political mainstream and curbed the establishment.

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Violence-ridden Central African Republic on road to famine - U.N

Women stand in line for food aid distribution delivered by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and world food program in the village of Makunzi Wali, Central African Republic, April 27, 2017. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Baz Ratner

By Tom Miles

22/11/2018

GENEVA (Reuters) - Endemic violence in Central African Republic is pushing the country towards famine with 63 percent of the population already needing emergency aid, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in the country said on Wednesday.

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Eight killed in attack on Foraco well site in Niger

A Nigerien soldier stands guard near a camp of the city of Diffa, Niger, June 18, 2016. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Luc Gnago

22/11/2018

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Armed men killed eight people on Thursday in a late night attack on French drilling company Foraco's water well site in southeastern Niger, Foraco said.

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Women raped by Islamic State need justice, UK ex-foreign minister says

Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain, near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate, August 10, 2014. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Rodi Said

By Sonia Elks

22/11/2018

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain's former foreign minister William Hague called on Thursday for greater efforts to prosecute rape in conflict zones such as Myanmar, Nigeria and Iraq, six years after he launched an initiative with Hollywood's Angelina Jolie to end the crime.

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Militants kill around 100 Nigerian soldiers in attack on army base: sources

By Ahmed Kingimi and Paul Carsten

22/11/2018

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Militants killed around 100 Nigerian soldiers in an attack on an army base on Sunday, security sources said on Thursday, blaming Islamic State West Africa.

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Libyan gunmen free kidnapped Egyptians held over business dispute

Families of 16 kidnapped Egyptians in Libya shout at Al-Herda village in Kafr El Sheikh, Egypt, November 20, 2018. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

22/11/2018

AL-HERDA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian workers taken hostage in Libya this week over a financial dispute between Libyan contractors and their Egyptian partner have been freed, a relative of one of the hostages said.

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