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Swiss to close loophole on underage prostitution
Switzerland is moving to close a legal loophole that has allowed prostitution of minors as young as 16 to go unpunished in the country.The Swiss government says it has started consultations with parliament on a law to punish clients who visit underage prostitutes with up to three years imprisonment.Switzerland is one of the few countries in Europe where paying 16 and 17-year-olds for sex is legal.The

Wash. berry farms fined for hiring kids 6 and up
Three strawberry farms were fined a total of $73,000 for employing children as young as 6 as pickers, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday.

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Alaska law would allow military to drink at age 18
Alaska is the latest state to weigh in on a long-running argument: If you're old enough to fight and die for your country, you should be old enough to drink a beer.

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Facebook bans 20,000 underage users a day

Melbourne: Facebook has revealed that about 20,000 children are kicked off the social networking site every day for lying about their age to join the site.The social networking giant admitted it had

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Despite reform, NKorean gymnasts to miss Olympics
North Korea's gymnasts are still barred from the 2012 London Olympics as punishment for age falsification, despite the country's reform efforts.

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'Berlusconi had sex with underage Moroccan 13 times'

Milan: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi paid to have sex with an underage Moroccan 13 times at his sprawling villa in a Milan suburb, according to prosecutors. The prosecutors said this in

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