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Kids later than sooner. South Korean women freeze eggs as child-rearing costs surge
By Cynthia Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - In South Korea, fewer women are having children and those who do are in...
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Ukrainian Americans try many ways to bring in relatives
By Deborah Bloom (Reuters) -Twice daily, Yuliya Day reaches out by phone from Los Angeles to see how her mother...
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For children who lost a parent, the pandemic pain will never end
By Brad Brooks CONVERSE, Texas (Reuters) - Aidan Garza often talks about his dad in the present tense, as if...
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‘Our blood is boiling’: Victims angry as son of dictator closes in on Philippine presidency
By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - Former political prisoner Cristina Bawagan still has the dress she wore the day she...
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‘Our hands are tied’: Liberia grapples with heaps of city waste
By Carielle Doe MONROVIA (Reuters) - As the sun set over Liberia's vast West Point slum, youth leader Archie Gbezay...
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Ukraine’s past and present intertwine as a war historian seeks refuge
By Mari Saito OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - In late February, on a cold night in Kharkiv, Viktoria Naumenko caught a...
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Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre ‘resurrected’ for Palm Sunday mass as pilgrims return
By Henriette Chacar JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prayers in Arabic and Latin echoed in the rotunda of Jerusalem's Church of the...
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A month into Ukraine’s war with Russia, gravediggers of Lviv mourn the dead
By Mari Saito LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - On a warm March day that has all the signs of early spring,...
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Distraught Lebanese depositors fight for their life savings
By Timour Azhari BEIRUT (Reuters) - When a Lebanese bank told Aref Yassin it had closed accounts worth $20 million...
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In Krakow rail station, Ukraine war refugees find care amid chaos
By Mari Saito KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - It's 11:30 a.m. at Krakow Main Station and Ruslana Shtuka is desperate for...
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‘Mission impossible’: U.N. in Cambodia showed early limit of nation building
By Kate Lamb PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Just over 30 years ago, a crackling radio in a refugee camp on...
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In Philippines election, priests opposed to Marcos turn pink
By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - When Philippine Catholic priest Father Nap Baltazar raised his hands to bless the people...
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College dreams dashed as young Afghan women fight to keep poverty at bay
KABUL (Reuters) - As students return to universities across Afghanistan this month, law major Waheeda Bayat will not be among...
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Will a presidential election mark the end of S. Korea’s tattoo taboos?
By Ju-min Park and Daewoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Doy, one of South Korea's most famous tattoo artists having inked...
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Hardship deepens amidst Syria’s frozen conflict
DAMASCUS/BEIRUT (Reuters) - After her son was killed fighting for the Syrian government in 2013, the state began paying Amouna...
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Japan’s 11-member Nambu family shows allure of frugality, limits of stimulus
By Daniel Leussink and Akiko Okamoto TOKYO (Reuters) - When Japan handed Tokyo bus driver Keiki Nambu and his wife,...
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Canadian hospitals strain as Omicron hits health workers
By Anna Mehler Paperny and Allison Lampert TORONTO/MONTREAL (Reuters) -After a year as an emergency department nurse at a busy...
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S.Korea’s beaches face threat from development, rising seas
By Hyonhee Shin GANGNEUNG/SAMCHEOK, South Korea (Reuters) - For years, the crystalline blue water and soft sand of South Korea's...
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How COVID-19 became a ‘boon’ for a battered Indian hospital
By Krishna N. Das BHAGALPUR, India (Reuters) - At the height of the first COVID-19 wave in India last year,...
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Like the Titanic – Lebanon’s orchestra keeps playing as country sinks
By Timour Azhari BEIRUT (Reuters) - As Lebanon's national orchestra prepared for its season-opening concert with half its musicians absent,...
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