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A woman has her eyes tested at the Care Harbor four-day free
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4,000 uninsured people in Los Angeles. Photo by Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Visual Impairments Threaten Academic Achievements in Spain

by Subaih Sadiq | Oct 17, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Madrid – Many parents in Spain benefit from the back-to-school period to visit ophthalmologists to check up on their children’s eyes, while many others do not pay attention to their children’s vision. According to a recent surveys, 64% of Spanish families visit...

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A man (R) looking at his smartphone while having dinner at a street food restaurant in Bangkok. NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images

Device-free Dinner Campaign Launched by Advocacy Group

by Hayley Tsukayama | Aug 18, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

Washington-Common Sense, an advocacy and education group for parents, has urged families to try a device-free dinner. The group has launched a campaign challenging families to put the devices away at dinner, stay off their phones and talk to one another. In...

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Mourners carry the coffin of a Lebanese Hezbollah fighter, draped in the flag of the Lebanese Shiite Muslim party, who was killed in Syria during his funeral procession on July 5, 2013. AFP PHOTO /ALI DIA

Hezbollah fighters’ families unhappy about Syria involvement

by Zaid Bin Kami | Jul 7, 2013 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Aqsat—Mounting casualties among Hezbollah fighters in the fighting in Syria has led some Lebanese supporters of the organization to petition its leaders to scale back its involvement in the Syrian conflict. A source with knowledge of the petions,...

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Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech during the National League for Democracy (NLD)’s first Central Executive Committee meeting in Yangon on May 27, 2013. Source: AFP Photo/Soe Than Win

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi slams 2-child limit for Muslims

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 27, 2013 | World

Yangon, AP—Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Islamic leaders expressed dismay Monday over plans by authorities in western Myanmar to revive a two-child limit on Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists and comes amid accusations of...