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    Young change-makers show the impact of soft diplomacy

    May 03, 2018 3 minutes
    Tanzil Ferdous (l.) of Bangladesh, who works with Rohingya refugees as part of her work to promote youth and women's development and Dania Hassan (r.) of Pakistan, who at 18 has developed a program that takes volunteers into underprivileged schools to promote education in everything from personal hygiene to green living and community security are among the most recent recipients of the State Department's Emerging Young Leaders Award.

    If a single event from the State Department Wednesday makes it into the history books, it would probably be the ceremonial swearing in of Mike Pompeo as the 70th secretary of State.

    It was President Trump’s first visit to a department that has flagged under his presidency. Vice President Mike Pence also attended the ceremony, held in the ornate Benjamin Franklin room. In his remarks, Mr. Pompeo repeated the pledge he made at his confirmation hearing to bring “swagger” back to American diplomacy.

    But later in the day, at the other

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