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What's that? Well, let's just say Ana Ivanovic, the French Open champion and new top-ranked women's player in the world, had a slightly tougher ride than most tennis pros. Reared in the war-torn Serbia of the 1990s, Ivanovic has risen from her home country's ashes to become the best in the game, the leader of the unlikely Serbian revolution that includes Jelena Jankovic, the second-ranked woman in the world, and Novak Djokovic, No. 3 on the men's side. At 20, Ivanovic has all the assets of a megastar-in-the-making: looks...
Wearing crimson in honor of the school’s Class Day festivities, Johnson-Sirleaf encouraged the graduates to bring the same courage and integrity to their work as leaders as she has brought to the task of rebuilding her war-torn country since she was inaugurated...
...organizations on Tuesday by publishing findings that a number of aid workers and United Nations peacekeepers engage in sexual abuse of some of the world's most vulnerable children. Hundreds of cases of sexual misconduct with children ranging in age from six to 17 were reported in disaster and war-torn regions around the world. And according to the report, a far greater number of cases go unreported...
...poised to take advantage of the $1 trillion that Russia says it will spend on infrastructure by 2020. And while Turkey refused to permit U.S. troops to invade neighboring Iraq from its territory in 2003, Turkish construction and retail companies have since invested up to $10 billion in the war-torn country...
This weekend, the Harold Parker State Forest of North Andover, Mass. will be turned into a Darfur refugee camp. The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) and the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University are jointly hosting an educational exercise to simulate the issues surrounding emergency refugee areas in the war-torn state. Participants in the event will create a service plan for the simulation that addresses sanitation, medical care, and transportation routes, according to a press release. Project Manager Sarah Appleby said participants are required to undergo a “two-week-long intensive, didactic training process?...