Child traffickers prey on Indian tsunami victims

BHAGYARAJ has stopped waiting for authorities to help rebuild his utensil kiosk that was washed away by the Indian Ocean tsunami three months ago. Instead, the hawker in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu now waits for a middleman who has promised to get his 14-year-old daughter a job as a maid in a house in the big city after another daughter, 16, was taken away similarly this month.

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Kyrgyz situation remains clouded by uncertainty

Kyrgyzstan's new leaders appeared on Sunday to have survived an initial challenge to their power from a disaffected ex-police chief but the situation in the Central Asian state remained clouded by uncertainty.

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