Children Archives

In Syria's rebel-held Idlib province, workers at the main centre for abandoned children tend to babies in basic cradles, some spruced up with purple paint or ribbons

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Syrians abandon babies at mosques, under trees as war grinds on

One cold winter night, Syrian Ibrahim Othman went out to pray and came home cradling a baby girl, abandoned at the doorstep of the...

AFPMay 24, 2023

Most of the alleged abuses were committed at the Juan XXIII boarding school for poor, rural children in Cochabamba in the center of the country

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Bolivia seeks files on pedophile priests from Pope

Bolivia’s president has asked Pope Francis for files on sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests in the South American country following revelations of alleged...

AFPMay 23, 2023

Portuguese authorities conduct a new search operation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann at the Arade dam, Portugal

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Police search Portugal reservoir in Madeleine McCann case

Police were carrying out new searches near a reservoir in Portugal Tuesday connected to the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann, who vanished from...

AFPMay 23, 2023

Fidencio Valencia, the grandfather of four Indigenous children missing after an airplane crash in the Colombian Amazon, told AFP about his belief that they can survive

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Colombian grandfather of missing children hopes they can survive jungle

Four Indigenous children missing in the Colombian Amazon for almost three weeks have the intelligence and know-how to survive, their grandfather Fidencio Valencia told...

AFPMay 19, 2023

A photograph released by Colombia's armed forces shows soldiers and sniffer dogs searching for the missing children

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Colombia president retracts claim children found after plane crash

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Thursday retracted his claim that four Indigenous children missing for more than two weeks after an airplane crash in...

AFPMay 18, 2023

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Colombia president retracts claim children found after plane crash

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Thursday retracted his claim that four Indigenous children missing for more than two weeks after an airplane crash in...

AFPMay 18, 2023

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‘Playing war’: Conflict militarises Ukraine children

The boys wear second-hand helmets and their guns cannot kill, but the war they play at in a verdant Ukraine field is real.

AFPMay 17, 2023

Barrier tape at the site of the Espoo footbridge accident

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Finnish footbridge collapse injures 27, mostly children

Some 27 young people, mostly children, were injured in Finland on Thursday when a temporary footbridge near a construction site collapsed and they fell...

AFPMay 11, 2023