Each year since taking power in Gaza in 2007, the Islamist movement has staged camps for boys dispensing religious education and combat training with the aim of “resisting” sworn enemy Israel. Hamas says teaching youths to fight is part of legitimate "resistance" to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. Rights activists, meanwhile, accuse it of exploiting children scarred by war and see the rising militarization of Gaza’s young as a dangerous new trend. The stadium is swarming with teenagers and young men, thrusting out their chests with pride at having rubbed ...

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In the arid West African country of Mauritania, the way of life of the traditional group of hunters known as the Nemadi is slowly disappearing, according to AFP. Experts say the small ethnic group of black Mauritanians, also known as N'Madi, now number in the hundreds at most, their livelihoods hit by repeated droughts and declining game. Those who are left mostly scour the desert for ostriches, oryxes and white antelope to hunt. In January, AFP travelled for five days between the desert hamlets of Tichitt and Aratane in central ...

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A Russian-backed Syrian government offensive against the country's last rebel enclave has caused one of the biggest waves of displacement in the nine-year-old war. Weeks of intensive aerial bombardment and a bruising ground offensive have emptied entire towns in the northwestern region of Idlib and sent huge numbers fleeing northwards, closer to the Turkish border. The exodus, which coincides with a biting winter, is one of the largest since the start in 2011 of a conflict during which more than half of the country's pre-war population of 20 million has ...

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Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were among nine killed in a helicopter crash Sunday in Calabasas, Calif. College baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife Keri and daughter Alyssa, a player on Bryant's basketball team at Mamba Sports Academy, were also killed. Orange Coast College, where John Altobelli coached, confirmed the deaths in a statement Sunday night. Kobe Bryant was one of the most extraordinary players in the history of our game with accomplishments that are legendary: five NBA championships, an NBA MVP award, 18 ...

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In Cairo's centuries-old Darb al-Ahmar district Salama Mahmoud Salama's traditional dye workshop is a multi-colored hive of workers busy with all kinds of fabrics. They lay out the long flowing threads to be used for everything from handmade shoes to rugs and drapes and dip them in large, hot color baths. They have no gloves or masks to protect them from the dyes and fumes. "We start by leveling the cotton out, then immersing it in dye and adding salt to get the color right," 83-year-old Salama says one busy ...