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    • Spiralling global population and over-consumption are threatening the future health of the planet, according to a latest survey of the Earth's health.
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      Latest survey says unsustainable demand on natural resources is threatening the future health of the planet.
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    • More than 40 per cent of India's 61 million children are malnourished, prompting the prime minister to declare the problem a "national shame". 101 East travels to India and asks what the country is doing to feed its millions.
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      Every third malnourished child in the world is from India, so what is the government doing to feed its millions?
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    • The US military is expanding the number of jobs available to female soldiers that would potentially put them on the frontlines.

      The Pentagon said it will open more than 14,000 combat-related roles to women serving in the army, breaking with the long-held policy of excluding them from most jobs that would potentially put them in harm's way.
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      Pentagon to open more than 14,000 roles, breaking long-held policy of excluding them from most frontline jobs.
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    • US President Barack Obama has said that the huge trading loss at JPMorgan Chase & Co showed the need for Wall Street reform and the same kind of an error at a less stable bank may have required government intervention.
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      US President says the huge trading loss is going to be investigated and showed the need for Wall Street reform.
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    • More than a decade after the Taliban were driven from power in Afghanistan, the plight of the country's women remains dire, with threats and attacks by insurgents on women leaders, schoolgirls, and girls' schools, and harassment of women for "moral crimes" such as running away from forced marriages or domestic violence.
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      People & Power follows the young Afghan women taking the battle for gender equality onto the streets of Kabul.
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    • Ron Paul, the US congressman who led a doggedly persistent presidential bid against presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney and other rivals, has said that he is suspending active campaigning.
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      Congressman who led a doggedly persistent bid for Republican nomination is instead opting to work on amassing delegates.
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    • At least 16 al-Qaeda fighters have been killed in a Yemeni airstrike in Abyan, while six soldiers were killed in clashes with fighters inside Zinjibar in the country's troubled south where the army is trying to uproot the group, military officials have said.
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      Military officials say members of group killed in Abyan, while six soldiers were killed in clashes in city of Zinjibar.
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    • Once known as a booming industrial city and a model of economic progress in Mexico, the border city of Juarez has become infamous as the murder capital of the world. Josh Rushing travels to Ciudad Juarez, and asks how human life there came to be worth so much less than the drugs being trafficked through.
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      Josh Rushing travels to the city dubbed the murder capital of the world.
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    • NATO's bombing campaign in Libya left 72 civilians dead last year, a leading human rights group has said, accusing the military alliance of failing to acknowledge the deaths.

      In a 76-page report released on Monday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged NATO to provide "prompt and suitable compensation" to families for the civilian deaths, injuries and loss of property.
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      Human Rights Watch urges NATO to provide "suitable compensation" to families of civilians killed in bombing campaign.
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