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SUMENEP, East Java – In one of East Java’s toughest rulings on sexual abuse, the Sumenep District Court has sentenced the head of a local Islamic boarding school, or pesantren, to 20 years in prison ...

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Zitkála-Šá was eight years old when the missionaries came. Lured from the South Dakota Yankton Indian Reservation with promises of adventure, comfort, and an education, in 1884 the girl went willingly ...

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Members of the Marathi Abhyas Kendra staged a protest in Mumbai on Thursday, demanding action against the alleged closure, poor maintenance and reconstruction of BMC-run Marathi medium schools. The ...

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