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By Casey QuackenbushJune 28, 2016 2:18 AM EDTA UNICEF report predicts that unless current trends in global poverty and education are addressed, by 2030 at least 69 million children under age fi stanley cup ve will die from mostly preventable causes, 167 million children will live in poverty, and 750 million women will have been married as children.Denying hundreds of millions of children a fair chance in life does more than threaten their futures ndash; by fueling in stanley cup tergenerational cycles of disadvantage, it imperils the f stanley cup uture of their societies, said UNICEF executive director Anthony Lake in a statement. We have a choice: Invest in these children now or allow our world to become still more unequal and divided.The report notes that significant progress has been made since the the 1990s. Global mortality rates for children under age five and people living in extreme poverty have decreased by half or almost half, and boys and girls attend primary school in equal numbers in 129 countries.But these advances have been neither even nor fair, the report finds, especially in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, where the likelihood of death before age five of children born to uneducated mothers is almost three times higher than those born to mothers with a secondary education. Girls from the poorest homes are also twice as likely to be married as children than those from the wealthiest households.The situation in sub-Saharan Africa is especially dire. Of Dwph Pictures of the Week: March 21 鈥?March 28
Sina Corp. s Sina Weibo microblogging service app icon is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone 5s in an arranged photograph in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Apri adidas samba converse l 22, 2014.Bloomberg鈥擝loomberg via Getty ImagesBy Victor LuckersonJuly 11, 2014 11:12 AM EDTA Chinese state broadcaster has labeled adidas samba the iPhone a national security threat to the country. CCTV, a news station whose reports can have wide influence, said that the location-tracking feature on Applersquo popular smartphone could be used to access state secrets, according to the Wall Street Journal.Apple has been trying for years to gain a strong foothold in China, where it now generates more than 20 percent of its quarterly sales. The company inked a deal with China Mobile to bring the iPhone to the wireless carriersrsquo; 760 million subscribers back in December. At that time, analysts estimated that Apple could sell 20 to 30 million iPhones in China this year alone. Right now, though, the device only has a six percent share of the smartphone market, according to the Journal.Apple has not yet returned TIME request for comment on the matter.The CCTV report could be given extra credence due to the disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden about mass global surveillance conducted by the U.S. government. According to documents provided by Snowden to the New York Times, NSA hackers created backdoors into products made by Huawei, a major Chinese telcom company, to check fo
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