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Nepal’s tenant farmers find hope as they claim land of their own 12 Aug 2016 - 12:00 am

REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: Rice saplings are pictured on the field during the Asar Pandra festival in Lalitpur, Nepal, June 29, 2016. Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar By...

Evicted from Tanzanian wetland, herders win 10-year battle for compensation 12 Aug 2016 - 12:00 am

Hippopotamuses gather in the waters of Grumeti in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park August 16, 2012. REUTERS/Noor Khamis By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM:...

Lonely nights for India’s “women left behind”, unaware of Gulf migrant crisis 12 Aug 2016 - 12:00 am

A grandmother dances as women and children cheer her on in the village of Ndoyenne 2, Senegal, 1 July 2016. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Nellie...

Senegal’s dancing grandmothers lead charge for health over tradition 12 Aug 2016 - 12:00 am

A grandmother dances as women and children cheer her on in the village of Ndoyenne 2, Senegal, 1 July 2016. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Nellie...

Doctors at top Indian hospital charged in kidney harvesting racket 12 Aug 2016 - 12:00 am

Operating out of the private L.H. Hiranandani Hospital in Mumbai, the organ harvesting ring was busted by police in July following a tip-off...

Indian state to crush “mica mafia” by legalising mines to stop child worker deaths 12 Aug 2016 - 12:00 am

A girl shows mica which she has collected from an illegal open cast mine in Giridih district in the eastern state of Jharkhand,...

Catfish spawn climate solution for Kenya’s dryland farmers 12 Aug 2016 - 12:00 am

A typical home dam in eastern Kenya, full of water for irrigation. TRF/Isaiah Esipisu By Isaiah Esipisu MBEERE, Kenya: Farmers in Kenya’s eastern...

Colombia expands land restitution to war-torn south amid peace efforts 12 Aug 2016 - 12:00 am

A woman celebrates the signing of a historic ceasefire deal between the Colombian government and FARC rebels at Botero square in Medellin, Colombia....

Affordable solar schemes light way to energy for all in Zimbabwe 12 Aug 2016 - 12:00 am

Pupils use solar-powered computers at Gomba High School in Gutu, Zimbabwe. TRF/Jonathan Njerere By Tonderayi Mukeredzi HARARE: Innovative ways to pay for solar...

High risk of modern slavery in nearly 60 percent of countries, global index finds 12 Aug 2016 - 12:00 am

A cotton picker is at work during this year's harvest in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan in this October 2015 photo courtesy of Anti-Slavery International released...

Pay-as-you-go irrigation aims to cut water use in Bangladesh 12 Aug 2016 - 12:00 am

REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: A farmer tends to a wheat farm in the El-Dakahlia governorate north of Cairo, February 16, 2016. Reuters / Mohamed Abd...

Bangladeshi boy with 'old man' illness baffles doctors 12 Aug 2016 - 12:00 am

In this photograph taken on August 7, 2016, four-year-old Bangladeshi child Bayezid Shikdar(R) sits with his mother Tripti Khatun on a bed at...

Twin blasts in Thai resort town kill one, injure 19 12 Aug 2016 - 12:00 am

Hua Hin Beach in Cloudy morning. Photo courtesy: Kriangsak Honchumpae / Wikimedia Commons Bangkok: Twin blasts in Thailand killed one woman and injured...

Iraq Kurds say IS financier killed in joint raid with US 12 Aug 2016 - 12:00 am

Iraqi Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani speaks during the second anniversary of what a U.N.-appointed commission of independent war crimes investigators termed a...