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![UNICEF 'concerned' by reports of Taliban ban on foreign school NGOs](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/7e/90/cc/UNICEF--concerned--by-reports-of-Ta-826181_small.jpg)
UNICEF 'concerned' by reports of Taliban ban on fo...
The Taliban government may have banned international NGOs from offering education to out-of-school Afghan children, UNICEF said Th...
![Millions of Chinese students sit gruelling college entrance exams](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/0c/0a/fd/Millions-of-Chinese-students-sit-gr-666622_small.jpg)
Millions of Chinese students sit gruelling college...
Millions of Chinese students sit for notoriously tough college entrance exams on Wednesday, the first since the country lifted zer...
![Self-made millionaire sits China's university exams for 27th time](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/49/c5/f5/Self-made-millionaire-sits-China-s--046160_small.jpg)
Self-made millionaire sits China's university exam...
Among the millions of fresh-faced high schoolers sitting China's dreaded "gaokao" college entrance exam on Wednesday, Liang Shi st...
![Spell it out: Paris' Champs-Elysees hosts mass 'dictation'](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/ef/e6/09/Spell-it-out--Paris--Champs-Elysees-169858_small.jpg)
Spell it out: Paris' Champs-Elysees hosts mass 'di...
Not to be outdone by US-style spelling bee extravaganzas, Paris's most famous street the Champs-Elysees was transformed into an op...
![Students given community service over fatal hazing](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/c3/6d/a5/Students-given-community-service-ov-400417_small.jpg)
Students given community service over fatal hazing...
A Belgian court on Friday sentenced 18 members of a college fraternity to community service over the death of a black student duri...
![Florida school curbs access to poem read at Biden inauguration](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/d1/47/e7/Florida-school-curbs-access-to-poem-954648_small.jpg)
Florida school curbs access to poem read at Biden...
A Florida school has restricted access for students to the poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration be...
![Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan acquitted in Swiss rape trial](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/ee/3b/b6/Islamic-scholar-Tariq-Ramadan-acqui-644851_small.jpg)
Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan acquitted in Swiss r...
A Swiss court on Wednesday acquitted Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on charges of rape and sexual coercion, finding no evidence aga...
![Pupil started deadly Guyana dorm fire over confiscated phone: source](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/e1/45/4b/Pupil-started-deadly-Guyana-dorm-fi-198586_small.jpg)
Pupil started deadly Guyana dorm fire over confisc...
The weekend school dormitory blaze that killed 19 minors in central Guyana is believed to have been started by a disgruntled pupil...
![Defence pleads for Islamic scholar's acquittal at Swiss rape trial](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/a1/c4/18/Defence-pleads-for-Islamic-scholar--836151_small.jpg)
Defence pleads for Islamic scholar's acquittal at...
Tariq Ramadan's lawyers pleaded Wednesday for the controversial Islamic scholar to be acquitted on the third and final day of his...
![Jack Ma takes up visiting professor post in Japan](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/81/6e/f2/Jack-Ma-takes-up-visiting-professor-392639_small.jpg)
Jack Ma takes up visiting professor post in Japan
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma on Monday took up a visiting professor position at a Japanese university, another new academic role fo...
![Jack Ma accepts university teaching post in Hong Kong](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/61/43/fb/Jack-Ma-accepts-university-teaching-808668_small.jpg)
Jack Ma accepts university teaching post in Hong K...
Jack Ma, founder of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, has been made an honorary professor of business at a top Hong Kong university, the...
![Funny-side up: Comedy booming in French-speaking Canada](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/41/bd/e4/Funny-side-up--Comedy-booming-in-Fr-930162_small.jpg)
Funny-side up: Comedy booming in French-speaking C...
Home to a prestigious comedy school, the world's largest annual laughs festival and nightclubs that pack in audiences for dozens o...
![Teargas and pan bans as Macron faces fresh pension anger](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/6d/f0/b5/Teargas-and-pan-bans-as-Macron-face-691080_small.jpg)
Teargas and pan bans as Macron faces fresh pension...
French police fired teargas Thursday in a village in southern France to keep angry protesters away from President Emmanuel Macron,...
![Brazil mourns children killed in preschool attack](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/65/15/93/Brazil-mourns-children-killed-in-pr-808568_small.jpg)
Brazil mourns children killed in preschool attack
The families of four children killed at a Brazilian preschool held emotional funerals for them Thursday, a day after an attacker m...
![Teens lured to Marseille become 'slaves' of its drugs war](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/40/0e/d5/Teens-lured-to-Marseille-become--sl-044814_small.jpg)
Teens lured to Marseille become 'slaves' of its dr...
Marseille's drug lords have a problem. Last year 32 of their foot soldiers were shot dead in the crime-plagued French Mediterranea...
![Attacker kills four children with hatchet at Brazil preschool](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/45/48/4d/Attacker-kills-four-children-with-h-815486_small.jpg)
Attacker kills four children with hatchet at Brazi...
A 25-year-old man burst into a preschool in southern Brazil and killed four children with a hatchet-like weapon Wednesday before t...
![US parents' dilemma: how to discuss school shootings without scaring kids](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/59/5c/4a/US-parents--dilemma--how-to-discuss-568916_small.jpg)
US parents' dilemma: how to discuss school shootin...
When Elizabeth Barese picked up her 11-year-old son from school on Monday, she knew she had to tell him that a shooting had happen...
![Nashville school shooter hid seven firearms in house](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/9a/81/68/Nashville-school-shooter-hid-seven--002026_small.jpg)
Nashville school shooter hid seven firearms in hou...
The 28-year-old who shot dead six people at an elementary school in Nashville bought and concealed multiple weapons in the family...
![Nashville police seek motive after school shooter kills six](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/39/58/e0/Nashville-police-seek-motive-after--528855_small.jpg)
Nashville police seek motive after school shooter...
Nashville police worked Tuesday to pin down a motive behind a murderous rampage that saw three elementary school pupils and three...
![Founder of Afghan girls' school project arrested in Kabul](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/e3/6b/9a/Founder-of-Afghan-girls--school-pro-492049_small.jpg)
Founder of Afghan girls' school project arrested i...
The founder of a project that campaigned for girls' education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, hi...
![Female shooter kills 3 children, 3 staff at Nashville school](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/71/f3/dc/Female-shooter-kills-3-children--3--400795_small.jpg)
Female shooter kills 3 children, 3 staff at Nashvi...
A heavily-armed 28-year-old woman killed three children and three staff at a private elementary school in Nashville Monday before...
![Female shooter kills 3 children, 3 adults at Nashville school](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/71/f3/dc/Female-shooter-kills-3-children--3--110117_small.jpg)
Female shooter kills 3 children, 3 adults at Nashv...
A 28-year-old woman killed three children and three staff at a private elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday before...
![Florida set to expand 'Don't Say Gay' law to all school years](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/aa/cc/94/Florida-set-to-expand--Don-t-Say-Ga-933393_small.jpg)
Florida set to expand 'Don't Say Gay' law to all s...
Florida is expected to ban the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity in all school grades, expanding a controversial...
![Russia's Asia pivot spurs boom in Chinese classes](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/df/0e/70/Russia-s-Asia-pivot-spurs-boom-in-C-179594_small.jpg)
Russia's Asia pivot spurs boom in Chinese classes
Every Sunday, Chinese tutor Kirill Burobin begins work in the early morning and is kept busy until midnight.
![Rap battle: young Tunisians fight stigma with the arts](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/94/4d/7d/Rap-battle--young-Tunisians-fight-s-250765_small.jpg)
Rap battle: young Tunisians fight stigma with the...
"We're sick of being seen as thugs," said Mohamed Ali Ayari, a rapper from a down-at-heel Tunis district, where jobless youth are...
![Hundreds of thousands strike in UK over pay](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/4e/cf/b3/Hundreds-of-thousands-strike-in-UK--688850_small.jpg)
Hundreds of thousands strike in UK over pay
Teachers, London Underground train drivers and civil servants joined striking doctors Wednesday in a mass stoppage as Britain's fi...
![Dawn school trial for drowsy teens draws outcry in Indonesia](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/bc/13/36/Dawn-school-trial-for-drowsy-teens--646616_small.jpg)
Dawn school trial for drowsy teens draws outcry in...
Every morning in a city in Indonesia's far east, sleepy teenagers can be seen trudging zombie-like through the streets on their re...
![Taliban free Afghan educator who protested women's university ban: aide](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/d1/fb/69/Taliban-free-Afghan-educator-who-pr-217217_small.jpg)
Taliban free Afghan educator who protested women's...
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have freed a detained academic, his aide told AFP on Monday, months after he used a television a...
![Afghan universities reopen but women still barred](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/a6/60/58/Afghan-universities-reopen-but-wome-088478_small.jpg)
Afghan universities reopen but women still barred
Male students trickled back to their classes Monday after Afghan universities reopened following a winter break but women remain b...
![French teenager charged with murder over teacher killing: lawyer](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/78/c1/f4/French-teenager-charged-with-murder-055772_small.jpg)
French teenager charged with murder over teacher k...
Prosecutors on Friday charged a 16-year-old boy with murder over the fatal stabbing of his Spanish teacher during class earlier th...
!['Existential war': Putin steels Russia for long conflict](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/b5/0a/bc/-Existential-war---Putin-steels-Rus-272776_small.jpg)
'Existential war': Putin steels Russia for long co...
When Russia introduced patriotism classes in primary and secondary schools last September, Tatyana Chervenko decided she was not g...
![Biden demands Congress act on gun violence after latest mass shooting](https://www.rcatelegramnewscalifornia.com/media/shared/articles/ff/09/76/Biden-demands-Congress-act-on-gun-v-436824_small.jpg)
Biden demands Congress act on gun violence after l...
US President Joe Biden called on Congress Tuesday to act against America's epidemic of gun violence, one day after a new massacre...