Shanghai, Dec 30, 2025 (AFP) - Chinese homeschool students embrace freer youth in cutthroat market

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2025-12-30

Fourteen-year-old Estella spends her weekdays studying Spanish, rock climbing or learning acupuncture in her living room as part of her homeschooling since she left China's gruelling public school system. Her parents withdrew her from her Shanghai school three years ago, worried she was struggling to keep up with a demanding curriculum they believe will soon be outdated in the era of artificial intelligence (AI). They are among a small number of......

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Narok, Kenya, Dec 26, 2025 (AFP) - Kenyan girls still afflicted by genital mutilation years after ban

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