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There are no official statistics for the number of homeless people in Lagos, but Godwin is one of many. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2R2rUhr

A massive cloud of thick black smoke engulfed the city of Toluca after a warehouse fire. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2ECtMrA

Engineers built a tank identical to the Space Launch System tank that will be flown on Exploration Mission-1, the first flight of Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft for testing. from NASA https://ift.tt/2QXuyVR

With the holidays quickly approaching, winter break is a time of celebration and relaxation. While the time away from school provides a well-deserved break for your student(s), it also provides the opportunity for significant learning loss. Keeping your student(s) learning this holiday season can be fun and easy while ensuring they return to school both revitalized and ready for a new year of learning. Here are 10 fun ways to prevent learning loss this winter break: from ED News https://ift.tt/2Ex24eZ

WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical and Adult Education Scott Stump and more than 100 stakeholders met today at the Department of Education to collaborate on ways to rethink Career and Technical Education. The Rethink CTE Summit expanded on the Department’s Rethink Education initiative and served as an implementation launch of the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V). from ED News https://ift.tt/2EA7I0B

WASHINGTON—After months of research, visiting successful programs around the nation, and receiving testimony from experts and concerned citizens, today the Federal Commission on School Safety (Commission) released a 177-page report detailing 93 best practices and policy recommendations for improving safety at schools across the country. from ED News https://ift.tt/2EDirqS

A U.S. envoy is due to visit South Korea on Wednesday, officials said, as Washington and Pyongyang struggle to find a breakthrough in their stalled talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear program. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2rLeCYs

The bodies of two slain Honduran migrant youths were found in the Mexican border city of Tijuana at the weekend, officials said on Tuesday, in a sign of the dangers facing Central Americans in Mexico as they seek to enter the United States. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2QJ4izf

Facebook Inc has removed hundreds of additional accounts, pages and groups in Myanmar from its social networks after discovering what it called "coordinated inauthentic behavior" and links to the country's military. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Cmqzd6

When 17-year-old Lee Yong-soo returned home to South Korea in 1945 after being forced to serve in a brothel for Japanese troops, her family, having given her up for dead, thought she was a ghost. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2QfP2sr

The United States is committing billions of dollars toward development in Central America and Mexico as part of a plan to strengthen economies in the region and curb illegal immigration, the U.S. and Mexican governments said on Tuesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2LpG1Iy

British Prime Minister Theresa May will urge the devolved nations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to "listen to business" at a meeting on Wednesday and back her Brexit deal, which envisages continuing close ties with the EU. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2UQXH49

The commission in charge of writing Communist-run Cuba's new constitution has revised an original draft to remove the concept of marriage altogether after originally amending it to open the doorway to same-sex unions. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Ra6P4y

A month-long worker's strike and protests in Chile's flagship port of Valparaiso turned increasingly violent and spread to other ports along the nation's Pacific coast early on Tuesday, complicating fruit exports at the start of summer. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2A6pe8S

The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $3.5 billion sale of Patriot air and missile defense systems to Turkey, the Pentagon said on Tuesday after notifying Congress of the certification. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2rKI94E

A U.S. judge fiercely criticized President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Tuesday for lying to FBI agents in a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and delayed sentencing him until Flynn has finished helping prosecutors. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2SYLWqw

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said his office would shortly launch a new website, Twitter account and Youtube channel as part of his bid to harness the digital era to better communicate government policy to an ever-more connected people. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2BxSxkq

The Scottish National Party (SNP) and other minor British opposition parties have tabled a vote of no confidence in Theresa May's Conservative government, the SNP said on Tuesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2CmbqZw

Britain's interior minister Sajid Javid will on Wednesday publish plans for a post-Brexit immigration system that would bring net migration to the UK down to "sustainable levels", his department said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2GuxzbW