- For many young girls in Mali the reality of life is to stay at home and help with the housework or be sent to work in the gold mines. But one group is trying to change the lives of girls in this West African country and provide them with an education and dreams for a brighter future. Plan International has launched a worldwide campaign in the hope of tackling issues affecting young girls in developing countries. The primary aim of the organization's "Because I'm a Girl" campaign is to keep girls in education. According to Plan a staggering 75 million girls around the world are not in school. Mali is one of Africa's poorest countries and Plan hopes to spread the…

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- New Delhi, India, April 30, 2011 – Faced with repeated instances of piracy in the high seas and Indian soldiers' well-being at stake, India is working on not just a new domestic law against piracy but also negotiating with the littoral states of Somalia and some independent ones within it.