A 45-year-old groom allegedly married a six-year-old girl in Afghanistan in a wedding that left even the Taliban “horrified”.

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Americans still have fresh memories of the death and destruction of the previous US imperial adventure in the region.

A bill to raise Oklahoma’s age of consent from 16 to 18 is now on Governor Kevin Stitt’s desk, with lawmakers largely in agreement on the need to close what they called a loophole, but divided ...

A bill that changes Oklahoma's age of consent for statutory rape cases from 16 to 18 is now on the governor's desk after being passed in the House.

The original version of the bill would have increased the medical consent age from 14 to 18.

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