Many faced social stigma and were kept in the dark about their true parental origins, with birth certificates that usually said "father unknown".
The cash crop of the Taliban and the scourge of Afghanistan is the country's intractable cultivation of opium.
Lebanon is rediscovering a century-old tragedy that most had forgotten - a devastating famine, caused by blockades and a locust infestation, that killed a third of its population.
It was an unexpected moment on the campaign trail.
Gulf monarchs gathered on Tuesday for an extraordinary summit, in the presence of French President Francois Hollande, as international concern grows over the war in Yemen.
Australia faced growing calls on Tuesday to crack down on the exploitation of migrants laboring in farms and factories, after a television investigation claimed foreigners toiled in conditions akin to "slave labor".
Indonesia will stop sending new domestic workers to 21 Middle Eastern countries, reports said on Tuesday, after the recent execution of two Indonesian women in Saudi Arabia angered Jakarta.
Police found two more camps on Tuesday believed to have held human trafficking victims in southern Thailand - one recently abandoned and the other containing a buried skeleton - days after the grim discovery of 26 bodies at a separate location exposed a thriving human smuggling network in the country.
Bad weather cut links to a remote village in Nepal where dozens of villagers and trekkers are believed to be buried under an avalanche set off by last month's devastating earthquake, officials said on Tuesday.
Federal agents for years monitored one of the two gunmen who were shot dead after opening fire with assault rifles at a heavily guarded Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Boko Haram is fracturing as shortages of weapons and fuel foment tensions between its foot soldiers and leaders, according to women rescued from the Islamist jihadi fighters by Nigerian troops.
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