The news you need to know, fast: Conflicts raging across the Middle East are keeping 40 percent of kids out of school, threatening the future of an entire generation. More than 100 girls were hospitalized Thursday after a gas leak at their school in Afghanistan’s Herat province, the third such occurrence this week. And Guatemalan president Otto Perez is out of office and in jail amid allegations that he took part in a customs racket.

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Global :60 - Kids out of school, Afghan girls poisoned, and Guatemalan president jailed

By Hans Glick