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  When children around the world were locked in homes in the pandemic.  Video games, spending time on social media.  But there were some children who were busy doing something good for the world even in difficult times.  This thinking has put him in the race for the second edition of Kid of the Year of America's prestigious magazine 'Time'.  The winner will be announced on February 9, but each child's story is inspiring.  Read three stories... Lujain  (13): Created lessons from videos and emoji to arouse interest 'I live in Maryland, USA, teaching English online to Palestinian girls of 8-10 years old living in a refugee camp in Jordan, six months to 10,000 km away.  My father came to America as a Palestinian refugee.  That's why I understand the pain.  To arouse interest in reading, he himself prepared lessons by adding videos, emoji.  There is a problem with the girls not having a net.  But I continued to teach.  I am in ...

  Seoul:  North Korea on Sunday tested its most powerful missile since 2017, ramping up the firepower for its record-breaking seventh launch this month as Seoul warned nuclear and long-range tests could be next. Pyongyang has never test-fired this many missiles in a calendar month before and last week threatened to abandon a nearly five-year-long self-imposed moratorium on testing long-range and nuclear weapons. With peace talks with the US stalled, North Korea has doubled-down on leader Kim Jong Un's vow to modernise the regime's armed forces, flexing Pyongyang's military muscles despite biting international sanctions. South Korea said Sunday that North Korea appeared to be following a "similar pattern" to 2017 -- when tensions were last at breaking-point on the peninsula -- warning Pyongyang could soon restart nuclear and intercontinental missile tests. North Korea "has come close to destroying the moratorium declaration", South Korea's President M...